Love help: A Gift For Someone Who Has Everything ? - Help.com

Hmmm. That’s tough. I recently bought a photo albulm for around $5.00 and loaded it with pictures of me and my sister from birth and on. I added little scrapbooking sayings and glitter and buttoms. I gave it to my mom and she loved it. Maybe you should put your together a scrapbook for your sister. Go to target or walmart and they have all sorts of scrapbooking things. I’m sure you can do it all for $20.00.

well in our house we have too much stuff so for her last birthday I bought her a massage toucan or sheet thing so she can book an appointment herself when she had the time.

If she has an ipod you can get her an itunes gift card.

A personal gift basket put together as something she likes to do.

For example does she like to read?
A basket with a book (by her fav author) a mug, some hot choc/coffee (mocha) a few cookies, and maybe a giftcard to the bookstore.

Does she and her boyfriend like movies?
A basket with a DVD movie…some microwave popcorn, some soda, maybe some candy and two passes to the local theater.

You can make up a basket anyway you want. Just try to tailor it to her tastes.
~Richard

Okay person above me stole my idea. lol

Great minds think alike :)

The best gifts IMO are the ones that come from the heart & do not have a dollar value on it. =)

Indeed… “things of silver and glass, wear out in a day and are gone …” R.Bach

Speaking of that quote from Richard Bach… this is a very touching birthday story he wrote; “There’s No Such Place As Far-away”

If she’s got too much “stuff,” what about theatre tickets or a membership to a local museum?

…..museum? seriously?
okay how about a visa gift card? she can buy whatever she wants w/ that…

Hey, BluJ, why does museum sound not-serious?

I don’t get it … unless she’s 6 years old or something … what am I missing?

well….. it actually depends on what kind of museum, but some are really boring….

like art museums…..bleh :P

i love art museums.
i could spend weeks in the MoMA.

seriously??!?! wow

i mean… art’s cool, but i wouldn’t want to go someplace just to look at it. what do u call museums w/, like, statues and dinasor bones and such….?

is it called a history museum?

spiritedsoul wrote:
well in our house we have too much stuff so for her last birthday I bought her a massage toucan or sheet thing so she can book an appointment herself when she had the time.

Sorry, I know it was just a spelling mistake but the idea of a massage toucan is making me giggle. Having a lovely big billed bird in the corner who you could turn to and ask to massage you when you needed it. I want one.

depends on her age :D
or her personality

if she a pre-teen , she would go crazy for all the big girl stuff , make-up and such.
and if she’s a teen , jelwery or something to do with music
*ipod* would shut her up , young adults are into a night at a club, or even a party at a club with friends or so~
if she is older, i don’t think gifts would rly matter , but would be great if u had one ;D we all luff dem :D

a popular book is handy. something Oprah likes?

lol Oprah

Oprah?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

HA!!!

Interesting, BluJ, how different people value different things. My family and I LOVE museums. I remember my first trip to as art museum as a child–it was thrilling! My best friend and I fell in love with Impressionism on the spot, and we both used two weeks’ spending money buying postcard reproductions of Monet paintings. And, for my husband’s part, when he was in his late teens and early 20s, he served in the Army in Germany, and spent all his leave time taking buses and trains from museum to museum all over Europe. Our first great trip as a young couple was to London and Edinburgh, where we visited two museums a day.

When our sons were little, they cherished our family memberships to the Museum of Fine Arts and Museum of Science in Boston, and they took Saturday classes at both. They loved using their members’ discounts in the museum stores. On vacation, all they wanted to do was visit historical and cultural museums. All kinds, from the dinosaur-bones sort to the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass., and the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. (Oh, how they LOVED dinosaurs and mummies!) One family vacation was spent entirely in Washington, D.C., visiting the various museums (art, cultural, air/space, etc.) of the Smithsonian Institution and, at my older son’s insistence (he was then about 14), taking a series of buses out into the suburbs to visit the Frederick Douglass House. We also made several trips to the museums at Civil War battlefields, and we have delightful memories of numerous visits to restoration sites, especially the Mystic Seaport maritime museum in Connecticut, where we were members for many years.

When they became adults, our boys always took their first dates to a museum–the Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Science, and the New England Aquarium were tops on their lists. Now the older son, a history teacher, is married, and the younger son has a wonderful fiancee, and they join us as couples at least three or four times a year at the MFA for special exhibitions and gourmet dinners. We are all saving for a return trip to Italy, where we can’t wait to get back to the Vatican Museum and Uffizi Gallery.

I can’t imagine Mezz’s sister (who already “as everything”) not being thrilled by a museum membership, but, then, I guess it takes all kinds!

Typo: “has everything,” not “as everything” !! Sorry

oh. wow. i never thought art museums would/could have such a big impact on someone’s life! the only art museum i’ve been to, was in D.C. where i had to get up at 6:00 there, 3:00 here. i was tired the whole time…….

what is that museum called that has like…the first teddy bear, r2-d2 c3-po, dorothy’s ruby slippers, the original kermit the frog, the first telephone i think……. and a bunch of old famous stuff?

They might be in the part of the Smithsonian Institution that’s dedicated to cultural history. I also saw a museum in San Francisco that was a hoot–it was called the “Museum of Modern Mythology,” and it was basically one shabby room filled with cultural icons from Mickey Mouse to the Pillsbury Dough-Boy to the little Alka Seltzer man. There was also a special exhibition at the time of screen-printed double-knit neckties from the 1960s. What a strange place! This goes back 20 years or so; I doubt that it still exists, but who knows?

At any rate, I hope you’ll try another museum. And I hope you’ll like it!

T.

hahahahahahahaha i would be laughing the whole time I was there!!! :) maybe i will give museums another try.

There are museums for just about everything, BluJ!

REALLY!!! hmmmmmmmmmm what kind of museum has like dinosaur bones and such?

That would be a natural history museum or a paleontology museum, “natural history” being a synonym for science-minus-the-technology, and “paleontology” being the study of ancient life forms, i.e., dinosaurs. My kids grew up visiting the Boston Museum of Science and New York’s Museum of Natural History on Central Park West in New York.

I just googled “natural history museum California,” and I got 1.8 million hits–that is, mentions! I don’t mean that there are 1.8 million museums. (lol)

Some of the first few mentioned are the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles Country, the San Diego Natural History Museum, the California Academy of Sciences, the University of California Museum of Paleontology, and the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History. You could check some of their Web sites to see what they have. I also remember having a nice visit one time to the very small museum at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. The tar pits (literally, tar pits in which animals got stuck and perished relatively intact), located in the center of what is now LA, preserved evidence of prehistoric life in the area. I can’t remember whether there were actual bones, but I certainly learned a bit about dinosaurs in my brief visit there.

Of course, I check out the museums everywhere I go. They are right up there with scenery as the main reason for traveling!

wow! ya i think i’ll go to one of those :)

Have fun!

i’ll have to get one of my parent to take me.

It’ll be a fun outing for all of you.

T.

:) hope so!