12 Days of Christmas: Best present for mum/dad/sister/partner etc.?

[Marjo]

Hi everyone!

It is day 3 of our 12 days of Christmas celebration!   

One random lucky participant in each of these 12 topics will receive a £15 Amazon voucher! We'll announce the winners in the Christmas Day topic so you have lots of time to take part in each of the topics until then.

Today's question is below, and you can find yesterday's one here if you haven't taken part yet.

Looking forward to your replies! 

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Some people can be difficult to pick a gift for! We'd love to hear your suggestions for an ideal gift for  mum/dad/sister/boyfriend, etc.?

[Anonymous]

A large canvas print of my son Alex in his 3 piece grey suit & his wife Emma showing her garnet red dress off full length on their wedding day this last Spring ...  ...this for the 2 of them together

Other bits eg cotton hankies embroidered with my son's initials in the corner ...  ... owl pendant / earrings for Emma who loves all things owl

[jonsie]

I'm relying on my son to get gifts for my grandsons. More than likely the latest football boots and kits and I'll just give him the money.

Probably money for everyone else including my wife who wants to buy a gold necklace. 

[Cleoriff]

The best present I ever bought my Mum was a Hoover vacuum cleaner. Please don't laugh, she really needed one and I bought it for a purpose.

In 1992 Hoover UK decided to run a promotion, which for them ended in total disaster. The promotion entailed buying a Hoover product costing over £100 and you would get TWO free tickets to Orlando Florida.

As I wanted to take the family of 4, this entailed buying TWO Hoovers (they cost a total of £202)

Hoover totally underestimated the popularity of this promotion and as a consequence tried every way to stop people getting these flights. I sent every single form and request via recorded delivery. I kept copies of everything. I was contacted by BBC Watchdog and local newspapers. I found the address of the company handling the promotion (It was a box number) A lot of hard work and sheer dogged persistance got me those 4 free flights to Florida.

About 220,000 of us got tickets. Thouands of other didn't.

It was the biggest promotional disaster of recent times. It cost Hoover £50 million and their UK base which they had to sell..  

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3704669.stm

It even made Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_free_flights_promotion

Edited to add. I could never better that as a Christmas present...and it brings back so many happy memories...

[Anonymous]

Possibly a newly furnished house if I could afford it

[MI5]

My wife has had a new kitchen, which I've just finished fitting and the bedroom is being redecorated.
Happy wife = happy life

[Anonymous]

I don’t do presents, but if they want anything throughout the year I’m there like a shot.. 

in return they leave me alone at Christmas.. 

best presents ever!

[viridis]

I'll give the wife something she asks for each year..
A day off.
This life of ours is tough on her.

[Glory1]

My best friend's birthday is on Monday, one week before Christmas. So I always send her an Amazon gift voucher for Christmas and take her out for her birthday in the New Year. It's always difficult when a person's birrhday is so near to Christmas and my friend is not easy to buy for. So I kill 2 birds with one stone - she loves Amazon and good food. Sorted 😉

[gmarkj]

I am useless at thinking of presents.
The best one for my wife I have gotten is tickets to see a show - think it was Derren Brown.