What to buy a lady for her 90th birthday

onlyroz

Just remembered - for my cousin's 90th I filmed his party and edited, and then gave him a DVD of it.

pimento

You could blow the budget and do something like this;

http://www.orient-express.com/web/uktr/best_of_british.jsp

We took my mum and dad for a milestone wedding anniversary.

Contessa

This idea comes from a friend of mine for her father's milestone birthday and we copied it for my mother-in-law's seventieth. A large box containing (for your gran) 90 small wrapped gifts. They don't have to be expensive and can be silly, maybe use all the alphabet.
We adapted the idea again when invited to a friend's seventieth birthday lunch- strictly no presents. He was delighted with the gift we and a friend made-all free using a computer so not really a present-a booklet of 70 quotations/photos/lines of verse pertaining to his life and hobbies. We also had a lot of fun in compiling it!

BobQ

I would go for an "experience" of some kind. Would she go in a helicoptor? A sports car? A Canal Boat ride? The top of a tall building?

Or get her something that makes her life easier (tools that maintain her independence, helping hands, jar openers whatever)

eskimo26

tanjatucker wrote: »

when my nan turned 90 earlier this year, we gave her a digital photoframe that you can email pictures to without her having to do anything on a computer/memory stick etc and it updates them automatically (would need wifi though, not sure if thats available?)

we are living all over the place, many of us 1000s of miles away from grandma, so dont get to see her very often. this way, we can send her pics of what we've been up to and its a nice surprise for her whenever a new picture turns up on the display.

with a large family like your mum's it should work very well and she would hopefully feel like everyone is keeping in touch.

it's one of these http://shop.kodak.co.uk/store/ekconseu/en_GB/pd/PULSE_Digital_Frame__W730__7_in./productID.170191100

I would second the photo frame, i was going to suggest it to though i didn't know about the ones you can send photos to!

Got my mum one and it just saves on the clutter and dusting of dozens of photo frames, the inconvenience of printing and not losing all the photos, it sits unobtrusively in a corner and gives her a beautiful slide show of everyone's photos, they can do video too.

nearlyrich

Wow that's an excellent idea for a none tech savvy granny, my mum loved her photo frame but we did have to update it for her.

Hezzawithkids

BobQ wrote: »

I would go for an "experience" of some kind. Would she go in a helicoptor? A sports car? A Canal Boat ride? The top of a tall building?

That's a lovely idea but she is quite frail physically & walks with a cane. One of my brothers used to take her out & about, away for long weekends etc but earlier this year she told him that she found these excursions too tiring and didn't want to do them anymore.

Catti

For a 90th birthday earlier this year, we did the 'This is your life' thing - scanned and put a lifetime of photos onto a dvd with favourite music as a backing track. Now she can watch it on her TV and the size of the pictures make it much easier to watch. Printed off the best into a large red book.......!

sillyvixen

in 2003 when my grandad was 90, we clubed together and got him a DVD player as well as a load black and white DVD's that he had seen in his younger days. once we had set it up and shown him how it worked and how to get the subtitles he loved it - he watched the films again and again - he made notes and slipped them in the cases! unfortunatly his 90'th was his last birthday - but my dad still watches the films and reads grandads notes and still feels close to his dad. maybe you could get some old films that remind her of her younger days.

robpw2

how about an item from every year she has been alive in a box