Help! What to get grandma for her birthday?

Cards? Cute little brooches? Some flowers in a pretty vase?

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I always get my grandma chocolate. She loves it. I've made the mistake of getting her a DVD player, of which she uses as a statue to look at. I even got her a DVD to go with it, Meet me in St. Louis or something.

I recently got her a mother's day gift that was a frame that said three generations on it and I put a pic of her, my mom and me when I was a baby. She loved it. Maybe something like that??

Good Luck in your search.

Callalily's idea is good.

Do you know if she likes baths? Nice bath salts or that type of pamper thing might be good.

What about a little Swarovski figure if she has a favourite animal, or a perfume bottle?

Nothing that has to be fed or dusted. And probably not any talcum, perfume, bath salts, either. When we cleaned out my mother's apartment and her room at the nursing home, it was full of talcum, perfume, and bath salts that had never been opened.

Pictures and flowers are good.

How's her heart?

Wine.

Or something more personal. Like transerring the families old home movies onto DVD.

My usual answer to "What should I do for [relative or friend's name]'s [birthday/anniversary/whatever]?" is entirely inappropriate here, so mods: I'm staying out.

My folks are grandparents, and their favorite gift, hands down, is always pictures (especially of the grandkids!). One favorite photo cherished by them (though not a gift) was the time one Christmas when we had all the grandkids (about a dozen) climb the live oak tree behind their home. It's their 'family tree' shot.

Get her an electronic photo frame (either a desksize one or they now make small portable ones.) Load it full of pictures of her/ your family so it's ready for her to use and show off.

(If you haven't told her about your bun in the oven, you could include an ultrasound pic, scanned or something, in it. What a way to announce it... my SIL did this for the first grandkid in the family. Well, normal not digital frame.)

If she doesn't get into gadgets, don't sweat it. If it's loaded with pictures, all you have to do is show her how to turn it on/off and move through the pix so she can show off.

(Mini-rant, if a person doesn't want anything... please don't get them something. It drives me nuts when I get things that I don't want. To me, it then because about the giver's feelings, not the recipient, because it's their desire to give that has trumped my desire to not have get some useless or inappropriate gift... food I can't eat, knickknacks to stuff somewhere, etc.)

How about making up some coupons? She can "redeem" them for things such as housework, a hand massage, a hug, a girls' morning where you just spend time talking, help organizing photos, that kind of thing.

Do the neighborhood kids give her a hard time?

Wayne K said:

How's her heart?

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That's right, buy her Wayne K.

You'd give her a nice discount, right Wayne?

For people I never know what to get them, I take them out to dinner, maybe a movie if I think there's something they want to see. Or if there's a nice show going on, play, opera, whatever fits their tastes.

I'm prone to sharing events rather than giving gifts if I can help it. This is especially useful for people you can't figure out what to get them as they have everything.

I'd go with flowers or a pretty plant. I got my mom a gorgeous hanging fuchsia for Mother's Day and she loves it. (She doesn't mind caring for a plant, though.)

A gift cert. to Victoria's Secret?

I am a grandma....and not as old as yours and I do not have everything. I love to get pictures. I am not much into anything else as for cookies...candy....flowers...and the like.

A picture means I can look at it and 'remember', remember the times the funny happenings, all the joy and heartaches of those I love. It allows me to 'glow' about things that were only dreams at one time.

<<<<wonders off........thinking...remembering.....

Maybe make her a hand-made birthday card along with whatever you get, too. Anybody can go to the store and buy one, but taking the time to make one just for her will show her you really care and mean a lot more.