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What to get niece for her 18th birthday?

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  • DollyDabbler
    DollyDabbler Posts: 211 Forumite
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    What about splitting the amount between an item and cash.

    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Large-Luxury-Girls-birthday-Personalised-Keepsake-Memory-Box-18th-21st-30th-etc-/261166549834?pt=UK_Health_Beauty_Make_Up_Cosmetics_Foundation_PP&hash=item3ccebd4b4a


    then the remainder of the money in a nice envelope inside
  • claire16c
    claire16c Posts: 7,074 Forumite
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    My aunt & uncle have always given me money for my birthdays & I always really appreciate it, it honestly it is the best present as I could buy what I like clothes wise or put it towards a holiday etc
  • Desperado99
    Desperado99 Posts: 1,195 Forumite
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    one of my friends for her godsons 18th birthday, gave him a pound coin for every year since he was born (each with the year on IYSWIM). She had a few issues with one year where no new £1 coins had been produced (I think she got an isle of wight one in the end).

    I thought it was a really nice idea.
  • sukysue
    sukysue Posts: 1,823 Forumite
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    Herand I think you have been a little rude in your comments after all we don't all have the same tastes.What you or I like could be eons apart but the posters are only trying to help the op, your comments were not nice.
    xXx-Sukysue-xXx
  • Dimey
    Dimey Posts: 1,434 Forumite
    Blimey Herand - have you had a bad day ? :rotfl:
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    "Any more posts you want to make on something you obviously know very little about?"
    Is an actual reaction to my posts, so please don't rely on anything I say. :)
  • Gigervamp
    Gigervamp Posts: 6,583 Forumite
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    The only 18th present I remember (because I still have them) was a pair of crimpers. (It was 1981!)

    I loved them, and they were still in use up until about 13 years ago. :)

    I'd just give her money unless you know there's something she really wants.
  • Errata
    Errata Posts: 38,230 Forumite
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    I bought both my nieces pearl ear studs. Several years later each of them wore them when they got married.
    .................:)....I'm smiling because I have no idea what's going on ...:)
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    I really appreciated several of the presents I got for my 18th - and none of them were money (which I was grateful for at the time, but the things I still have I still actually have, if that makes sense).

    My Dad gave me an early Victorian copy of Foxe's Book of Martyers (I was doing A level history at the time) my godmother gave me an amber necklace, and my godfather a leather-bound Shorter Oxford Dictionary.

    I'm not suggesting any of those actual things, because I'm not your neice, but I still have and appreciate all of them, 17 years later.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    Errata wrote: »
    I bought both my nieces pearl ear studs. Several years later each of them wore them when they got married.

    Akoya? Freshwater? Tahitian? South Sea?
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • *twinkle*_2
    *twinkle*_2 Posts: 40 Forumite
    My daughters had a Pandora ring as that's what they like. Could you take your niece shopping so she can choose something?
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