"experience" type gifts - great or a real effort

[FluffyMummy123]

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If someone organised the whole thing for me, including babysitters and transport, then I would probably love it.

I probably wouldn't appreciate the experience of a bungy jump or something, but I'm sure my dh would. I've love a luxery spa day.

Depends what it is and if you can go.
I'd love a skydive but would need transport and babysitter provided. It would be useless to me otherwise.
OTOH all the babysitting and transport in the world wouldn't make me even go to a spa day, not my thing at all.

A spa experience (or similar) would be my worst nightmare, lol. Have considered a driving one at Silverstone for DP as he's mentioned he'd like to do it. Maybe for his 40th in 5 years time.

i want someone, ANYONE, to give me a hot stone massage.

i really, really, really do!

i used to get spa days for my birthday from my ex h every year and i loved it!

I got my dad Zorbing tickets for his birthday. Myself and my two sister all went with him. He really enjoyed it and wouldn't have ever booked it for himself otherwise. Wasn't too much of a pita to arrange because the location was really close to where we live.

MIL got me some treatments after the birth of ds. I've only used a small portion of it and that was a bikini wax not something relaxing as she had planned!

Bit of a PITA for me because it's in the town that i used to live in and need to find someone to dump ds with look after ds.

Well, for starters they are Naff with a capital 'N'.
Also sign of a bloated society that has too much.
Couldn't think of anyone worse than being forced to go up in a balloon or be taken around a 'race track' with a bored bloke called Baz.

I must be getting old. All I really wants as gifts are pots of home made jam and chutney and maybe some nice wild flowers.

Rubbish idea. I have been given them twice and neither time did I manage to use them due to time/weather/etc.

I got a £100 voucher from my family for my 30th birthday. None of the activities were within a 3hr drive and I had a 3mo baby! I would rather have had some money, then I could have spent it on shoes.

They are great as long as they are appropriate.

DW got 2 chocolate making experience tickets for her birthday. She and her sister really enjoyed it and came back with some fab chocolates.

My lovely sis gave me some vouchers and an appointment with the personal shopper at Harvey Nicks for my 40th - BIG TICK.

My dh gave me a spa one when I was pg - BIG TICK.

I gave dh a wine-tasting one for Xmas - BIG TICK.

My sis and me gave my feckless brother a driving one for his 40th and he never did it - NOT HAPPY (but we should have known better, he's a lazy arse with a wife who never lets him have fun)

Think carefully about who's getting it and if they will use it. Otherwise both parties feel bad. It's not as easy a present as people think.