From my sister-in-law. One of those fake bamboo freebie calendars from a Chinese takeaway, the ones with the adverts for local businesses on the bottom
Toilet Twinning is a great gift for the person who has everything... I got one for my Mom one year! You buy a toilet for some people in a poor country (you can choose which or do it randomly) and get a certificate to hang in your bathroom, with co-ordinates so you can look up your toilet on Google Earth... it's a great balance of being silly/funny but also helping people.Also, I have unfortunately been the bearer of bad gifts. When I was about 14 I had a boyfriend at school and when it was coming up to Christmas he kept banging on about Bathing Ape shoes and I think I may have said I would get them. But then I saw that you could sponsor a donkey for a village in Africa through Oxfam and I got him that. We met up and when he opened the card he said ‘you got me a card? Of a donkey?!’ Whoops!
This is a lovely idea. I’m going to get one for myself!Toilet Twinning is a great gift for the person who has everything... I got one for my Mom one year! You buy a toilet for some people in a poor country (you can choose which or do it randomly) and get a certificate to hang in your bathroom, with co-ordinates so you can look up your toilet on Google Earth... it's a great balance of being silly/funny but also helping people.
So what’s a big gift in your eyes then. I think in this case you made him look badOne year my current partner and I had made an agreement not to buy proper gifts and just get a couple “little” things. I got him; jeans, couple hoodies, new shaver and clippers, pair of Adidas sambas which he loves, some after shave etc. Just wee bits n bobs.
I gave him this and he was sweating giving me mine... a box of Lush bath bombs, a SLINKY and a joke gift of a wee bell... for him to ring for me to make him cups of tea. (This was 100% a prank gift. He’s not a pig!)
He was absolutely mortified. I was a bit hurt and confused but tried to hide it. He took me out to shop the sales, dinner etc. Even now he cringes and get all red if that bell and slinky gift comes up.
I find it quite funny now and I guess he just had different ideas of “a couple small” gifts.
A bloody tea bell
So what’s a big gift in your eyes then. I think in this case you made him look bad
One year my current partner and I had made an agreement not to buy proper gifts and just get a couple “little” things. I got him; jeans, couple hoodies, new shaver and clippers, pair of Adidas sambas which he loves, some after shave etc. Just wee bits n bobs.
I gave him this and he was sweating giving me mine... a box of Lush bath bombs, a SLINKY and a joke gift of a wee bell... for him to ring for me to make him cups of tea. (This was 100% a prank gift. He’s not a pig!)
He was absolutely mortified. I was a bit hurt and confused but tried to hide it. He took me out to shop the sales, dinner etc. Even now he cringes and get all red if that bell and slinky gift comes up.
I find it quite funny now and I guess he just had different ideas of “a couple small” gifts.
A bloody tea bell
Me too! They are the big gifts!Like the above poster I would also love to know what you'd buy each other normally, your idea of a few small gifts is more than me and my partner would do generally
Nans are the best - i would have enjoyed a sick bell too!Me too! They are the big gifts!
I did laugh at the tea bell though, my nan kindly gave me a similar bell for when I was poorly and I could summon her from my sick bed upstairs for Lucozade and ice cream.
Every year we get each other the same thing:Like the above poster I would also love to know what you'd buy each other normally, your idea of a few small gifts is more than me and my partner would do generally