Christmas present ideas for mum

Mint1955

53 is not old at all!
Good housekeeping do a six month subscription for about £15

Saga magazine its for the over 50s has some great articles and stories and again you can get a subscription with free chocs for an Xmas gft.

How about an audio cd of an autobiography of someone she likes or even just an audio story book it's very relaxing someone telling you a story.

Tickets for a local theatre show or cinema.

Think about what mum does and get her something that goes with it?

meritaten

1940s Gal - There are magazines out there for every interest. If she knits or sews or makes cards or likes doll houses or into woodwork or photography or jewellery making the list is endless!
my son is into metal detecting and I got him a years subscription to his favourite magazine and he loved the gift - he has been hinting for the same thing for his next birthday! Says he thinks of me every time the mag pops through the letterbox (buttering me up methinks!).

kingfisherblue

My mum buys me a Fiction Feast subscription for my birthday each year - I love reading but don't always have much time, so the short stories suit me quite well.

Comyface

Would your mum like a personalised calendar? I found my Dad hard to buy for (and his birthday was 16th dec, double whammy!) and a calendar with pictures of the grandkids, family etc went down an absolute treat one year.
I used Vistaprint but lots of places do it, Boots etc, you upload the photos online and can see how it looks before you order it.

daisiegg

I was struggling with what to get my mum but after a vague chat with her earlier I've decided on a personalised pamper hamper. She is getting a nice comfy nighty (which she has said she wants), socks, slippers, a mini cute hot water bottle, a posh glass bottle of bubble bath to look pretty in her bathroom and get used once in a blue moon and two cheap bottles of bubble bath that she will actually use regularly, and a small box of chocolates. May sound boring but lots of the usual things you might put in this sort of hamper - nail stuff, candles, alcohol miniatures, face masks etc etc - she just doesn't use and will sit gathering dust! I might pick up the odd other few cute things when I'm out and about but what I have listed above will be the bulk of it.

Hope you think of something for your mum! They can be hard, can't they! Though in my family it's my dad I'm really struggling for this year

valk_scot

1940sGal wrote: »

The magazine subscriptions not something I thought of so might have a look round see if there's one she'd like. Might be a pain though because she generally just flicks through the one's we buy but i might float the idea with sis see what she thinks.

She's 53 in January, btw. But she is quite young for her age (though not one of them who acts about 20! haha)

I'm 53 and I think I'd clip my DD round the ear if I caught her saying that about me. Young for her age! Bah Humbug....better buy her a pot of wrinkle cream and a new zimmer frame then?;)

How about a boxed set of DVDs from her favourite TV series?

pleasedelete

53.

When my son was about 5 he insisted we gave my dad £10 in an envelope and that we posted it even though we lived very close. My son said that was the best present anyone ad ever sent him (my brother sent him £10 once) My dad was so made up- he laughed all day - spent it in the village pub. Said money to spend on anything he wanted was the best gift that he could imagine!

I should add my father is very well off but it just amused him.

Mrs_Imp

Hmmm...newbie alice-rose is advertising a website called alicerose. I smell SPAM.

OP, that's not a hint to get your Mum spam for Christmas!!