Dh says even MN can't help with this one. (A difficult present buying thread).

[wendylovesbob]

Budget - about £50

Must be able to order online.

We have to buy a present for an extremely wealthy man in his 60s. He has very particular taste in everything. He buys himself whatever he wants whenever he wants it. We can't afford most of what he likes. He is rather snobby and scornful about anything that isn't precisely to his taste. He likes expensive, exclusive things.

Try not to question the fact that we have to get him a birthday present .

We usually get him dreary dull books which we are convinced that he never opens (but which don't actually offend him).

I said to dh that we would ask MNers for ideas, and dh laughed and said even MNers can't help with this one.

Prove him wrong, please!

The rose sounds lovely. I hope he enjoys his birthday.

x posted.
glad you got something - sounds like a great present

Something for the garden or something edible and specialist

or tickets to something

wow dirtymartini those vintage magazines are gorgeous

Oh, just get him a feckin thingymejig

Do you know what?

I've heard that really really rich people (ie the Queen) love tacky, dodgy gifts that make them laugh. I remember she got a Big Mouth Billy Bass one year (it was in the paper, I wasn't there).

Perhaps you should go completely the other way and get him something a bit tacky and fun that he would never come across in normal life.

Like a bouncing Tigger (my dad is loaded and loves these so much he has a whole collection. He giggles like a toddler at them).

Oh, and by the way. I'd quite like to be this man...

you mean a self-stirring mug??

Yeah they are aren't they iheart? I have a few from eBay. Sometimes I give them to people.

Apocalypse, I can't believe nobody thought to mention the self-stirring mug

hurrah! xpost!

DirtyMartini, you may just have found the perfect present for my dad, who is celebrating a big birthday this year... Thanks!

Oops, too late.

I can't BELIEVE nobody mentioned the mug of self stir. I bet HE won't even have one of those

What is this mug of which you speak? I've clearly not been round thee parts long enough, have I?

hope im not too late but how about about buying him the rare, thought to be extinct wollemi pine tree
it's £62 so a bit more than your budget but has a bit more of the wow factor.

Oh good, Lulie, hope he likes it :)

behold the vortex mug

Hmm, for all those times I have looked at my coffee and thought it could have been even more stirry! Thanks Cheese, I now feel I am on my way to becoming a true MN-er. IS this a badge of honour? Will others recognise me as an MN-ite if they see me with it?

Wow, and it is REDUCED too...

You could print out this thread and have it framed in A3 or bigger!!!