Other Gifts for Parents

It is like the fish that got away, the proverbial tale of "Almost". But I Shudda known better in the first place. When I was a small boy there was a custodian at our school named Willie Mays. I noticed whenever anything in our room needed fixed and the teacher sent me to find Willie that there were a whole lot of empty "Kesslers" bottles all over in the cavernous retreat he lurked in. One Day I offered him one of my grandfather's bottles of Kesslers if he would autograph a number of items for me as Willie Mays, the Say hey kid, was a famous American Style Cricket player. He gladly obliged. He wrote some very charming things on my ball like, "Come back here ...  Read the complete review

Reminiscing, that is what most parents can be found doing at Christmas, don't you think? It is the one time of the year that you can actually use as a timepiece, anything that happens at Christmas is always remembered. So, if you are stuck for something to get the parents, why not buy them a an original newspaper to celebrate an occasion in their lives and then sit back and prepare to hear the start of their reminiscing! I bought my husband a copy of the Daily Express from 1968, only because I wanted a tabloid newspaper and they did not have anything other than the Times/Telegraph (I didn't realise that it was a 'broadsheet' at ...  Read the complete review

How many pairs of socks and shelves of delph does it take to make you realise that your parents deserve a bit more? In my case about enough socks to keep a centipede warm and enough delph to simultaneously feed an army. This year I decided I would give the thinking process for parent gifts a bit more than the fleeting 2 second lightbulb I usually give it. After 2 days of constant browsing things were looking decidedly dastardly. Push comes to shove and the crowds at every retail outlet I visited made it a close to an intolerable experience. Added to the trauma of pseudo dancing with other shoppers there was the tribulation of having my backpack getting ...  Read the complete review

Xmas can be a very stressful time for mothers. All that food to cook, relatives coming to stay, children off scholl wanting to be entertained. Not much of a holiday for a mum is it? Thats why this could be the ideal Xmas present. There are various forms depending on how rich you are but lets start with the cheap option! Gift vouchers for a beauty salon - after all that rushing about at Xmas and New year everyone can look a bit run down and tired so a pick me up is definitely required. What could be better than lying back for an hour and being pampered? The good thing about a gift voucher is that the person can choose what they want. They could get ...  Read the complete review

As a parent the following has happened to me. My child has opened a present from a relative and then discovered that the batteries were not with the toy. Now on Christmas day going out and buying batteries is not the thing that us parents want to do, not forgetting that not very many shopkeepers open then. Two choices, if you buy a toy/present that needs batteries please include them. The second and it might be even more useful is give the parents a selection of batteries for a Christmas present. It will help to stop a sobbing child and when the batteries start running down in the evening a ready set of replacements are available. Best of all ...  Read the complete review