What you all buying Mum for Christmas?

mooomin

Walshyboy84 wrote: »

Dear Fatty, by Dawn French, however if you're mum is of the lifetime dieting variety then that might not be so good!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:I would be disinherited for that :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Penny2myName

Meeting mine in town to get her ears pierced (gift is actually from sister), but I am paying for now a she is in Holland.
Myself I made her a hamper up with pictures of the kids in silk photo frames, some olay face creams a jigsaw and a home made cracker.

aliasojo

mgardner wrote: »

I am shocked that anyone thanked you for this post. You are obviously angry and hurting that you have lost your Mum. I know that feeling well but the op was merely asking advice on what to get HER mom. Time will heal anger and grief and in the meantime there are lots of lovely caring people on here that would help and support you, but not if you make upsetting posts like this.

Wow. I'm more shocked at your post tbh. You make an awful lot of assumptions whilst castigating this poster. You are a classic example of someone who adds heads and tails onto a story and reads more into things than is already there. It was a quip. End of. Not to your liking but that's all it was...not to your liking. It doesn't mean the poster requires analysis and advice.

If everyone would stop to think, instead of having an emotional kneejerk reaction, they might realise it's all different strokes for different folks.

My Mother is dead but she had a sense of humour and she would have raised a smile at that. As did I. I can understand some people not finding it amusing but for goodness sake that doesn't mean that those who do are somehow lesser mortals and in need of help. :rolleyes:


OP, you've had some good ideas from others so there's not much I can suggest. Does Mum have any particular hobbies you could work round? I bet you end up buying chocolates.

emay

flying_fresian wrote: »

I know that some will think I'm being cheap with my mother for not spending a lot, but I have had my first Christmas in about 5 years without resorting to credit, and I want to know that I didn't get in (more) debt for anyone's presents.

When I was a student I used to wrap my presents really really fancy (unfortunatly still do...and spend way to much on wrapping stuff!!!), then no-one noticed how little I'd spent!

rancid-a

aliasojo wrote: »

OP, you've had some good ideas from others so there's not much I can suggest. Does Mum have any particular hobbies you could work round? I bet you end up buying chocolates.

I bet I do as well aliasojo But yes, there's been plenty of good ideas. I actually fancied getting her a novel or two, but she'll moan that she can get them from the library...

(Land_of)_Maz

I've got my mum a new moble from Play.com for £15, as she is always moaning about not hearing her ringtone, made sure it was same network as her currect PAYG so she can just swap over her sim... hope she likes it!

Also some slippers, shower gel, and a book....

On reading these posts, i'm going to get a wheat bag too, as they sound lush!

I think i'll get her a wee bottle of Baileys too, so she can have a drink on Xmas day...

thanks to all for the ideas, and to OP for posting and sparking the debate...

bathgatebuyer

Some great PAYG mobile deals on at the moment - I got my Gran one was £2.88!

gilligansyle

My mum is one of those who says 'I'm easy to buy for, get me anything'. But.. she doesn't like chocs, is diabetic anyway, allergic to most perfumes and without fail on Christmas day will open her present, go 'very nice' in a tone which means 'what possessed you?', but will never actually tell you so you can take it back, so it's always difficult to buy for her.

This year, too poor to really buy anything, not using credit at all, so have got hyacinth bulbs and found a nice pot, got some tea light candles and holders which I've wrapped up really posh, and vouchers that I got from doing surveys.

(Land_of)_Maz

bathgatebuyer wrote: »

Some great PAYG mobile deals on at the moment - I got my Gran one was £2.88!

£2.88!!!! wow!!!

gilligansyle wrote: »

My mum is one of those who says 'I'm easy to buy for, get me anything'. But.. she doesn't like chocs, is diabetic anyway, allergic to most perfumes and without fail on Christmas day will open her present, go 'very nice' in a tone which means 'what possessed you?', but will never actually tell you so you can take it back, so it's always difficult to buy for her.

This year, too poor to really buy anything, not using credit at all, so have got hyacinth bulbs and found a nice pot, got some tea light candles and holders which I've wrapped up really posh, and vouchers that I got from doing surveys.

That all sounds pretty lovely TBH!

sistercas

my mum is into fairtrade stuff and does alot of campaigning for fairtrade. so i have done her a hamper here with fairtrade goodies, chocolates, nuts , ceral bars etc and i have put in a pair of panto tickets. we are all going to the panto so it should be a lovely evening