70 gifts for Dad's 70th Birthday

themull1

skipton wrote: »

Do they have to be serious gifts?

I have done this for several big birthdays and given the gifts all at once, each gift being wrapped separately which added to the fun and surprise.

Here are a few ideas; samples of aftershave, anti wrinkle cream, 70 1ps ( or 20ps) -try to get shinny new ones, wallet, silly socks,pair of magic gloves, packet of favourite biscuits/crisps, bottle of washing up liquid and rubber gloves, pen, samples of shampoo or mini bottles, different beers or mini wine bottles, packet of seeds, packet of jelly babies etc, a lottery scratchcard or ticket, the meaning of liff book

You could write a few silly cheques..... for a picnic in the park, a trip to the cinema, a day out to the races/coast/dales etc

Hope some of these are of help. And your dad has a wonderful birthday.

My dad would hate that - he hates tat and clutter, why not just get him a decent present on the day?

wik

Hi...
My Darling Dad is 72, and a friend bought him a book for his 70th Birthday, its called The Best Of Times - growing up in Britain in the 1950's by Alison Pressley

He loves it, He has some books about the war years, but he says this book is very good as he remembers so much of the things in it.

wik x

Elsewhere

How about a trip to Dundee - home of the Beano comic? http://thecrusoes.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/p8031408.jpg?w=300&h=224

(We visited Dundee when taking our son for Uni interviews - had a great weekend - also saw Scott of the Antarctic's ship Discovery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RRS_Discovery and the Mills observatory http://www.leisureandculturedundee.com/mills )

or if he's interested in computers, a trip to Bletchley park? http://www.tnmoc.org/