Help! I need to buy a birthday gift for my aunt who is turning 60? Any ideas!?

BlueEyes

Think Betty Crocker meets June Cleaver! My aunt is wonderful and I a stumped! We are planning a big dinner and I need to get the perfect gift. Money is always the issue so I unfourtunatly cant afford to spend more that $40 or $50. I need something nice...maybe a new gaget, kitchen/ house stuff etc...Please help!

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most people at 60 have all the houshold items they want and need. and these gifts are not personal or memorable.find something she likes to do, like eat out and get a gift certificate to her favorite restaurant. a favorite hobby. perhaps you have a talent or a hobby and you could make something for her she would love that ! but, be creative. the presentation of the gift or even gift certificate is important. a nice gift bag, with some fresh flowers tucked in or something like that.does she like to stay in / go out. movie tickets, pizza gift certificates ? a small, inexpensive pendant, just from you for her, for a keepsake. most women have chains, so you dont need to buy one. a certificate for a pedicure ? if you love her dearly, you will know what she loves, and this will bring you to the gift.

60th Birthday Gift for the Mom who has everything?

Christine

My mom's 60th birthday gift is coming up and all the kids are pooling together about $800-$1000 to get her a really nice gift. The problem is the woman has everything!!! Any ideas on a unique and meaningful gift we could give to her on her birthday? Thanks!

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A 60th birthday is a milestone and you guys have a good budget to work with.

Is there a show in another city that she might like to? Perhaps a weekend away for her and someone else to see the show (tickets included).

Or is there something she has always wanted to do? For example learn to ballroom dance? Lessons might be an idea...

There is a company called Red Balloon Days in Australia that have some fantastic experience based gifts that might help you with some other ideas about what you could do for your Mother closer to where you are.

For a milestone birthday for my now husband, I arranged a limousine to pick him up with his favourite cold beers and had him dropped to the harbour where we took a harbour cruise together before dinner with friends. He loved it and will always remember it because it was an experience.

Good luck!

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Mum's 60th birthday gift trouble...HELP!?

akashacora

It's my mum's birthday on tuesday and I will get something for her tomorrow. I need to come up with something creative. It doesn't have to be something I'll buy. If you have any idea how I would surprise her by doing crafts (but not something cheap looking because she's turning 60). It's a special birthday and I'm not thinking of clothing. She's a fancy woman. She wouldn't want a book and recalling, she's turning 60. PS. I'm 16, don't have a credit card and live in Turkey so I'd love it if you could help me out!


PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE WITH CHERRY ON TOP.
Thanks!

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take her to a show in afternoon then tea and scores give her present at tea your lovely

How can I best acknowledge a special old friends 60th birthday when I accidentally did one month too soon?

Liz

This friend lives in Paris and I am in australia and we have not seen each other for 40 years, but email often.We are both women.I sent her a present,a card and a phone call! What can I do for the actual day that would be special?

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That is too funny about the early birthday. That is very classy of you to send anything in the first place.

I agree with the other guy, if you can afford it, go visit her. Or send her an open ended ticket to come see you when she can. You will hit her birthday gift out of the park!!! (Good thing)

Another great idea, Put together a variety basket of your favorite foods, coffee, and bevys from australia and send with a note saying, I wish you were here so we could celebrate this day together, so here's a little taste of my home to enjoy on your birthday. It's classy, creative and you will save a ton on the gift by not ordering a premade one and doing it yourself. Good luck, I'm sure you will make her day very special. After all, what are friends for???

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How do I deal with a dysfunctional relationship with my mother?

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Ms.Tiff

I am so devastated and hurt I cant stop crying.I have been hurt by my mother , once again,I feel like I have noone.Growing up, my mother had drugs and relationship issues, I pretty much had to be the mother and raise myself. She kicked me out at the age of 18, because I did not "clean up enough" right after I graduated from high school, she stomped me in my stomach and threw my stuff out her apartment, at the age of 18.and ever since then I ve been on my own.and when I needed money she told me to not ask for anything.And I didnt understand why my mother mistreated me all my life, I was a good kid, I went to school, I did not do drugs, yet she was very verbally and emotionally abusive towards me throughout my life, yet I still tried to be there for her.

There was days where me and my brother went days without food, I missed days out of school, yet I prevailed and finished high school and went on to get three college degrees including a Master Degree.My mother still continues to struggle financially, she has been drug free for 15 years, yet she works as a security officer, making 10 dollars an hour, so I try and do my best to help her in anyway possible.

Well, about eight months ago, she was living with my brother, and my brother threw her and my youngest sister out, they didn't have any where to go so I lent her over a thousand dollars to get a hotel for about a month, and buy food, she promised me she would pay me back when she received her tax refund.
A few months passed and she needed another loan for money to help get some type of school certificate so, I lent her another 200 dollars, then about a month ago, s then she needed money for food, gave her another 100 dollars to get food,then another 60.00 to help get her cell phone back on, so she recieved her taxes and she sent me around 900 dollars, because she had a tax lien and could not pay me back all at once due to the money that was taken out so she tells me she will pay the other 355.00 dollars, 100 dollars out of every pay check she gets from work, so a few weeks ago, I just ask her if she was sending the 100 dollars, and she tells me she cant pay me because she doesnt have it, because she did not make enough hours, and I ask her can she pay 50 dollars out of every check and she tells me she till try but then, and to get another job and keep my jobs so I wouldnt have to keep asking for my money back she goes on and says she cant believe I am bugging her about 355.00 dollars, when shes helped me in the past, and that shes loaned money to her family and never asked for it back, so why am I asking for it back, and then tells me "I put money over family" all I care about is money, and then says in her will she will leave me nothing, and all the money to her youngest daugther because I am never there for her, I was devastated and destraught, I have given this woman so much money, I have given her my first apartment for her and my sister when she did not have a place to stay, for birthdays, I have paid for everyone to eat, given her gifts, I have given her money and have done everything in my power to be there for her, yet its never enough, I am so hurt and devastated, I dont understand why my mother think so little of me, when I am really the only one in the family truly care for her and yet its like she hates me, and when I asked her "when have I put money over family" she just says ask your brother, ask your grandmother, the only answer she can come upo with is she tells me she remembers when i was a little girl and I would always want to go over my aunts house and never want to be at home at her, I think I was between 8-10 years old, and when I was staying with her, I was 29, and I wanted to move out and get my own place, and she says I abandoned her because she was trying to go to school and get her degree and she says I left her and my sister to get evicted because she could not afford the rent, but i told her for months I wanted to move, plus I was almost 30, and I slept on her couch, and wanted my own privacy, was I selfish for doing that is that putting money before family.I need advice? any helpers needed?

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Your mother is a mentally ill, abusive person and you have to come to terms with that.
Bc she is your mother, you have been trying to have a relationship with her bc no one wants
to think these things about their mother. You should be proud of what you have accomplished
and stop wanting validation from her in any way bc she just is not capable of giving it.
A good book to get is
"Growing yourself back Up" by John Lee. He has a short youtube also talking about how
we regress emotionally and still feel like a victim when we are an adult. Everyone does this.
You have had a hard, tough life, and need to grieve what you should have received from
a normal Mom. You are not selfish, you actually did well, and took care of yourself instead of
becoming a martyr to your mothers craziness.

Can anyone give me ideas for a birthday gift for a 60 yr old woman?

candy

She is single, no children, great person. She's semi spiritual and loves theater, dinning out. Young at heart! Beautiful lady and a good friend of mine who I have worked with for 13 yrs.

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Invite her to join you for a night out dinner and go to the theater.

Give her an experience:
Cooking class
Art class
Hot Air balloon ride

Think is she ever mentions "I love going to that place" or "I have always thought about going ... but didn't want to go alone"

Then see about making it happen.
I found more ideas here - maybe one will work for you.
http://giftideacenter.com/People/grandparents_gifts.php

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