[ 2021 ] Gift giving to adults that already have everything they need, ideas.

[japat]

A spin off on the food item thread.

What are some of the gifts you give or have received that you enjoyed.

My DH received a Yeti travel tumbler for his morning coffee and loved it so much he asked for another. The quality of this item, keeping his coffee hot even if it sits in his truck for 2 hours in the cold is what made this gift better than all the other travel mugs he had. He also takes it out on the lawn mower in the summer with cold drinks.

I have a bird feeder outside my home office window and I enjoy the small diversion of seeing what comes to eat, but I cringe a bit on the cost of quality/no waste seed. Last year, I received large bags of dried mealworms, peanuts and sunflower chips for my birthday. I was more than happy with these items.

Two years ago I found a local pottery teacher and arranged for the immediate family (including the grandparents) to take a pottery throwing class. We had alot of laughs during it and all went out for dinner after. We did the class in late Jan of 2020 and was supose to go back mid March to glaze the pieces, Covid put an end to that. But, later on in the fall the teacher allowed just myself and my DD to go in to do it, so we had the finished peieces for everyone last Christmas!

That Yeti tumbler sounds like a perfect gift, practical and well-loved! For my dad, I once got him a personalized leather wallet. He uses it every day and still talks about it. Simple, useful gifts like that, or ones tied to a memory, tend to mean the most.

 

[aandmrun]

Here is what we decided to do for my MIL. She doesn't "need" anything, but I know her biggest desire is to see us more. As odd as it sounds, our gift will be committing to future time together. This of course should be something that should be natural, but both her and DH are the same, neither one of them will pick up the phone and say lets go for dinner tonight and then the days turn into weeks without contact.

So, we are going to purchase gift certs for some local restaurants and pick dates over the next few months for her to put into her calendar for us all to enjoy a meal together.

Now that we are retired and our daughters are hard working professionals, we like receiving the restaurant gift certificates from them because they know our favorite restaurants. We also make it a point to celebrate birthdays, etc. at least every 3 months with our entire family members. Just being together is a gift for us!

 

[Passepartout]

Our 50+ 'kids' gift us 'experiences' rather than 'stuff'. One knows we like coffee, and gave us a subscription to multi small packs of custom roasted coffees. they asked us to 'profile what we like and ship coffee beans from small producers around the world. Is it 'better' than big-name coffee? I dunno. But it's fun to write reviews on each bag, and overall it has increased our enjoyment of our 'daily grind'.

The other one gives us memberships to 'boutique' art and specialty museums. Like a Children's Museum in the city where our second home is. Or they will comp us a specialty dinner on a cruise we are taking.

It seems like nice thoughtful stuff.

 

[japat]

Our 50+ 'kids' gift us 'experiences' rather than 'stuff'. One knows we like coffee, and gave us a subscription to multi small packs of custom roasted coffees. they asked us to 'profile what we like and ship coffee beans from small producers around the world. Is it 'better' than big-name coffee? I dunno. But it's fun to write reviews on each bag, and overall it has increased our enjoyment of our 'daily grind'.

The other one gives us memberships to 'boutique' art and specialty museums. Like a Children's Museum in the city where our second home is. Or they will comp us a specialty dinner on a cruise we are taking.

It seems like nice thoughtful stuff.

Agree with this, Experiences often make deeper impressions than material things