Comments on: Gift ideas for Mom/Grandma

By: happy birthday pictures

happy birthday pictures — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 05:51:29 +0000

A Good Read…

Very helpful info thanks…

By: Julie

Julie — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:19:21 +0000

Oh YES! How could I have forgotten that … I love my Pandora bracelet! And my SIL and MIL both have one too, so we can easily send overseas gifts to each other in small envelopes. Beautiful idea to give the birth stones. We did first initials for MIL.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:51:02 +0000

In my experience, anything involving my wife’s feet and shins (read leather boots) is always a hit!

By: Jacqueline

Jacqueline — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:09:57 +0000

My mom got a Pandora bracelet last year. It is quite nice. You buy little charms every year to add on. It is very stylish. This would be a great gift that keeps on giving every year for Christmas and birthdays.

Depending on the charms you can give it a different look everytime.

http://www.pandora-jewelry.com/

Pendants run around $35 ea and the bracelet is roughly $50.

This is what my mom will be getting this year – the grandchildren birth stones.

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:36:23 +0000

It’s not a cop-out! I bet those framed family photos will be really cherished.

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:35:54 +0000

Great idea! I’m always hesitant to do this for my parents though since my mom travels so much for work — I never know what continent she’ll be on!

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:35:04 +0000

I love doing the book gift too! When I was away in Australia last year, I bought everyone books from Amazon, Better World Books and Indigo (but I was always to cheap to spring for the gift wrapping). A book that turned out to be a great gift was Dropped Threads, compiled by Carol Shields … a collection of women’s experiences.

I read that stores LOVE it when people buy gift certificates because a lot of the time, people forget to use them and the store gets to keep all the $$ without forking over any product. I love that you can buy all these nifty gift cards in the drug store now too!

By: XUP

XUP — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:07:25 +0000

I’ve bought a lot of magazine subscriptions for friends and family over the years as gifts. A staple in my mum’s stocking was always a subscription to TV guide. Now they’ve stopped making print copies. She’s desolate. I always like buying books, too. Amazon.ca -they’ll even gift wrap and ship to whevever you want them to go. This year I’m all over those pre-paid credit cards for the people who never like anything anyone gets them. VISA Mastercard and AMEX all have cards you can buy for $25, $50, $100 or $200. They can be used anywhere real credit cards are used

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:52:55 +0000

The last several years we have given them tickets to something at the NAC for later in the spring, something they wouldn’t normally do, but always enjoy.
K

By: Nicole

Nicole — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:09:35 +0000

I’m a sucker for the sentimental gift.

My parents buy anything that they want so that means we have to get extra creative during any gift giving season.

This year is sort of a cop-out.

We’re having a family portrait taken with a professional photographer (A first with the three of us) and All of the parents are getting a copy in a nice frame.
For my son’s grandparents on his father’s side, they’ll be getting a photo of him by himself.

Either way I think all the parents will end up happy.