Birthday present for DS age 13

[orangeplum]

DS doesn’t want anything for his birthday. He had a new bike last year and a phone for Christmas. What have people bought their DS or relatives age 13 recently?

Thanks

Magazine membership ( hobby, sport or gaming?)

Ours got money, rascal clothing, day trip to view wembley football stadium.

ds(15) has had money in his bank account last few birthday as his is not long after xmas. He normally keeps some back to buy Fifa in September and anything else he wants during the year such as other games/money towards more expensive trainers than I would buy etc.

Mine (13 in a few weeks) has asked for a usb stick! 😂 easy job!!
I can’t just give him that though so also looking for ideas. He has iPhone, iPad and Xbox. Had bike last year.. got a Swiss Army knife for Christmas.. so hard nowadays!!

Ideas I have for ds

Football strip
Zookeeper experience
Young driver experience - he’s done this once before and loved it
Magazine membership
Personalised football boots

DSS just turned 13, and he got:

New trainers and some summer T-shirts
A sushi-making workshop
An indoor skydiving experience with 2 friends
A fancy gaming chair (extended family all chipped in for this)

We also gave him a very cryptic 'worksheet' to fill out about a month before, asking him to choose between 3 colour palettes, his top 3 loves out of a list of 10 things, his favourite textures out of wood, metal, hessian, etc., and redecorated his room as a surprise according to the choices he had made. It had been a bit 'kiddy' until then, so we turned it into a real 'teen' room over a weekend when he was at his mum's. Wasn't a super-expensive endeavour: just new bedcovers and curtains, one statement wall painted, cool lighting, his surfboard mounted on the wall (instead of cluttering up our hallway) and some framed posters, a v. simple bed-head built from driftwood we got from the beach, and all his childhood toys packed away out of sight.

He liked the 'gifts', but the bedroom was the big success.