My sister's 18th!

lexilex

It's my sisters 18th at the end of this month, I had been planning on giving her the money, but she would just waste it, plus it's not very thoughtful. I've decided on getting her 18 little pressies instead.
Has anyone got any ideas for this? I'm gonna have a look on the gadgety gift sites this afternoon but thought someone who might have done this already might have some good ideas. I'd like to try and related them to been 18 if I can. She's moving away to Uni in September too so anything little that would come in use for her then might be a good plan too.
I was going to give her £50, so that's how much I'd like to spend on this.

Thanks.

Di-Dough

You could make her a hamper and fill it with little things:

Shampoo and Conditioner
Showergel
Flannel
nice soap
deodrant
cup with hot chocolate sachets
throw
a picture frame with a family picture in it
stationery to take to Uni (pens and note pads)

HTH

Di

lexilex

Thanks.

I'm trying to stay away from toiletries if I can, I made her a hamper for Xmas, with loads of hair type things (straightening balm, stuff like that).

Some good ideas there though.

RustyFlange

Lexilex if you can still work on a hamper but without the toiletries then you could do an 18 things hamper? Small bottle of champagne, bits and bobs for her to take to Uni, a photoframe with pic of family etc?

XpOpPy17X

Have a look on the freebies board. There's a free haircut voucher you could use as one of the presents - if there's a good salon near you participating. There's also the marie Claire magazine subscription (4 issues for £1), if she's into fashion.
There's also the free theatre tickets for under 26 year olds on the night less ordinary scheme.
Could get her a student recipe book for uni from eBay for a couple of quid.
Some flowers, Jewellery, champagne, 'me-to-you' bear with 18 on, ect...

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Lokolo

Is she single? Attractive? If so I'm available for a present...

missjennipenni

For my sisters 18th recently, i bought 18 small gifts, some funny/novelty, some personal, some sweets & stuff. I wrapped them all up, numbered them 1 - 18 and gave her them all in a nice box. She was thrilled!

I cant remember everything, but some things were - photo of us together, is a frame, box of jelly beans (her fave sweet) soap in the shape of jelly babies, a rubber duck that changes colour (she collects those), and astrology profile done for her (soemthing else she is interested in) funky socks, some earrings, a personalised bookmark and othet things that i knew she collected/was interetsed in!

gibboelli

Or a slight variation, do 18 things begining with the letter her name starts with. Say she's an Annie, then everything in tha hamper can start with the letter A. No matter how dubious, say Ameythist(sp?) just something coloured purple :P