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Ideas to present a present

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  • onlyroz
    onlyroz Posts: 17,661 Forumite
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    Blindfold her and take her here. Whip off the blindfold and scream TA DAAAAAAA

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  • Andypandyboy
    Andypandyboy Posts: 2,472 Forumite
    Omg I want one!!!!!

    Ebay for about £14 I think.:)

    Last year we bought vouchers for the "Hand and Flowers" restaurant for some good friends. I sourced a false hand and stuck it in a bouquet, it caused a bit of a stir till the penny dropped. They thought we had bought them an Adams Family trip!!:D
  • Five cardboard boxes with a present in each. All wrapped with in size order with the tickets in the last and smallest cardboard box.
  • belfastgirl23
    belfastgirl23 Posts: 8,026 Forumite
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    For DFIL when we did this we put them in a guide book. It was so funny when he was trying to find words to say 'oh how nice a book about a place I'd like to visit' while masking his confusion as to why we'd buy it for him. Luckily the rest of the family was in on it and DSIL finally said 'Daddy is something sticking out of that book'. Still took him a while to really get it though lol....
  • How about a photo album with special photos of her from birth through the years to now, and on the last page (where she will expect to find a contemporary photo of herself) put in the tickets instead.
    “All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.”




  • pollypenny
    pollypenny Posts: 29,444 Forumite
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    When we gave DD a new kitchen after she moved into her little terraced house, we put the order form inside a steamer, which appeared to be her Christmas present.
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    Words, words, they're all we have to go by!.

    (Pity they are mangled by this autocorrect!)
  • Becles
    Becles Posts: 13,184 Forumite
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    I bought my son a trip to Barcelona for his 18th.

    I printed a sheet out with pictures of Barcelona's football badge, Camp Nou, a plane and Sagrada Familia and it the dates and destination written in the middle. I laminated it so it felt stiff, then wrapped it up with a bar of chocolate so it felt like a daft present of some novelty item that comes stuck on a piece of card. I do have a history of buying them cheap stupid things!

    He wasn't expecting the trip at all and sarcastically said "oh I wonder what random item of crap she has found now...." when he felt it. He nearly fell off the chair when he opened it and saw what was on the sheet :rotfl::rotfl:
    Here I go again on my own....
  • bearcat16
    bearcat16 Posts: 339 Forumite
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    Do a treasure hunt!

    Clues all around the house and garden, finally ending in the tickets..

    Or if you're feeling more adventurous clues all around the area you live, and take her in the car.

    (Make sure the final treasure is a safe place though, like inside your house!)
  • *max*
    *max* Posts: 3,208 Forumite
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    What I would do, because she's been wanting to go for so long, is take her by complete surprise, literally. No props, nothing.

    One evening you're doing the usual stuff - watch a bit of telly, knit, whatever. Then when you're passing her on your way to the bathroom, you just say "Oh, by the way. I'm taking you to Iceland for your birthday. So start thinking about packing.".

    And then watch her face and keep it in your memory forever. ;)
  • Mary_Ko
    Mary_Ko Posts: 15 Forumite
    Make the quest for her!
    When she wakes up, she saw a bouquet with a card that will send her to the bathroom. There is complete the ice bath, and the bottle in the center of which is the map. The map will lead to you and gifts)
    :A
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