Christmas presents for teenage boys - help!

HC_2

I have lots of nephews aged between 8 and 16 and, as usual, I am at a loss what to buy.

I usually give them vouchers for birthdays, but the whole family tends to buy actual presents at Christmas.

I only want to spend about £10 on each, but you can't get much for that!

Any ideas would be very gratefully received.

Lindsay100

Sudoku stuff is popular with the boys at the moment, the pound shops have a cool hardback book with 360 puzzles in, or lots on ebay. Or you can get a cool electronic handheld version of the game for around a tenner.

Or Free CD's and DVD's from Tesco (if you can find a misprice).

barbie_babe

i would ask there mums what cds or dvds they like .thats a good choice for younger and older kids .

lizzie_pig

Lots of web sites do wish lists. If you encouraged them to set one up you could pick them stuff from their lists.

Amazon will let you set one up - see https://www.amazon.co.uk - but you can only add things from Amazon.

There are some other sites where you can just list anything you want. I've come accross these
https://www.whattogive.com
and
https://www.thethingsiwant.com

jb1964

I have quite a lot of boys to buy for in this age range,
Boots have loads of stuff on their 3 for 2

For the older boys (depending on how much they're into named brands)
Lynx Radio Pack £8.99
Hackett Kit Body Gift Set £8.00
Lynx Emergency Phone Charger Pack £11.99
FCUK Body 1 Duo £7.00
adidas Ice Dive Toiletry Bag Set £8.00


For the 8yr olds:
Boots Detective Kit £10.00
Dig A Dino - Woolly Mammoth £9.99
Boots Dig For A Velociraptor £6.00
Comic Maker Kit - Batman £6.99
Mini Robosapien £9.99
The Simpsons Skatepark Gift Set £10.00

Or for either:
Boots Booklite £5.00
Boots Remote-controlled Quad Bike £10.00
Double Foam Disc Shooter £10.00

HTH

sallypurple

In the hampers thread on here someone suggested the Movie night in a box as being good for boys. I thought this was a brilliant idea so I have done this for all the teenage boys in our family this year.

Each box contains a DVD - cheap from our local Jet Garage or free from Tesco as above
A six pack of coke bought on BOGOF from Somerfields
popcorn and sweets from poundland.

I delivered one this week as a birthday present to my nephew aged 12 and he was thrilled.

Anya

Airzooka - if you got the Play.com voucher it will only cost £5!!! Getting one for my 13yr old brother. Great fun if you've ever seen them! Get them all one each and they'll be happy playing airball wars all christmas day!

Suewre

This is an idea I got from the £5 present thread.

Only suitable for those 16 and over.

Get a gold box - I bought a gold cd gift box from Tesco, it was 79p. Put some gold chocolate coins in it, and buy some Christmas scratchcards to pop in as well. I was looking the other day and they do £1 and £5 Christmas scratchcards, so any combination you want, up to the price you want to pay.

across

bhs webcam was £20 now £10 and today further 20% off so is £8 hope this helps!

Savvy_Sue

Anya wrote:

Airzooka - if you got the Play.com voucher it will only cost £5!!! Getting one for my 13yr old brother. Great fun if you've ever seen them! Get them all one each and they'll be happy playing airball wars all christmas day!

Airzooka - for those, like me, who just HAD to see what this was! And yes, I'm tempted.

I posted in the Festive Fiver Thread (I think, it could have been Stocking fillers!) about "Grow new parents" which I saw in Debenhams the other day for £2.50. They also had "Grow a new girlfriend" and "Grow a new brain".

I think Asda had a DVD of the Monty Python movies for just over £10.

But I agree that they are a nightmare to buy for, especially when they are NOT into toiletries, NOT into music, and generally awkward!