Gift Guide Round 1: Moms, Dads, and Significant (or Formerly Significant) Others

11/08/21 • 56 min

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It’s gift-guide season around these parts, and here we are with the first of three—three!—installments to help you along with the hardest-to-shop-for people in your life (hopefully). If you need more ideas, subscribing to Secret Menu might be just the answer.

Moms and Mothers-in-Law!

Single mom by choice to an amazing little girl. Since it's just the two of us and she's a toddler, I need to help her buy her a gift for me. I realize that buying a gift for one's self shouldn't be difficult but I'm saving to buy us a condo and this will be my one quality and/or impractical spend for the foreseeable future. So I want to make it count and I'd love your help. I am willing to spend up to $400.00. I appreciate smart function in design and I have lost zero baby weight, so anything that involves sizing has the potential to make me cry, which feels like it would defeat the purpose. I work about 75 hours a week and am currently doing so remotely. Would love to hear your thoughts. Thanks!

Fused bracelet like a Fewer Finer Eternal Bracelet or an Ochre Objects Permanence one
Birthstone earrings—maybe one of your birthstone and one of hers. White/Space Francesca studs are sold as solos.
Earrings/necklace you could build on each year: Scosha charms, Lizzie Fortunato mood necklace with an alphabet charm, and Fewer Finer vintage charms
Kinn Studio locket
A break! A one-night staycation or spa day

76 yo mom, super practical, can't throw stuff away, just lost her husband of 60+ years.

Tidy Tova Virtual Tidiness
Organizing accessories: Hay, Open Spaces, and Yamazaki Home
POJ Studio Kintsugi Kit
Mending kit: Merchant & Mills Rapid Repair Kit and Purl Soho Cotton Mending Thread
Yuns Hardware gift certificate
Dims Watering Can + Via Citrus tree
Monthly flower delivery—you can make any bouquet a subscription with Farmgirl Flowers
Miriam Toews novel: Fight Night or Women Talking
Donation to her local library

My new step mom who has very good taste and loves thrifting

Summersill & Bishop alphabet napkins
Vintage calendar from 2011, 2005, 1994, 1983, 1977, 1966, 1955, 1949, 1938, or 1927
Greystone Needlepoint book cover
Back issues of a favorite magazine—Gourmet?

Gift Guide Round 1: Moms, Dads, and Significant (or Formerly Significant) Others

Moms and Mothers-in-Law!

Fused bracelet like a Fewer Finer Eternal Bracelet or an Ochre Objects Permanence one
Birthstone earrings—maybe one of your birthstone and one of hers. White/Space Francesca studs are sold as solos.
Earrings/necklace you could build on each year: Scosha charms, Lizzie Fortunato mood necklace with an alphabet charm, and Fewer Finer vintage charms
Kinn Studio locket
A break! A one-night staycation or spa day

76 yo mom, super practical, can't throw stuff away, just lost her husband of 60+ years.

Tidy Tova Virtual Tidiness
Organizing accessories: Hay, Open Spaces, and Yamazaki Home
POJ Studio Kintsugi Kit
Mending kit: Merchant & Mills Rapid Repair Kit and Purl Soho Cotton Mending Thread
Yuns Hardware gift certificate
Dims Watering Can + Via Citrus tree
Monthly flower delivery—you can make any bouquet a subscription with Farmgirl Flowers
Miriam Toews novel: Fight Night or Women Talking
Donation to her local library

My new step mom who has very good taste and loves thrifting

Summersill & Bishop alphabet napkins
Vintage calendar from 2011, 2005, 1994, 1983, 1977, 1966, 1955, 1949, 1938, or 1927
Greystone Needlepoint book cover
Back issues of a favorite magazine—Gourmet?

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