My wife's birthday is tomorrow - I need a last-minute gift idea!

[Anonymous]

Yes, DCUM, I deserve your scorn. But I need your help. My wife's birthday is tomorrow, and I do not have a present. Please, give me your last-minute ideas!

[Anonymous]

Age, budget,interests?

[Anonymous]

Does she read? Can you buy her a new release book she'd like and a bottle of wine (or basket of her favorite snacks) and give that to her with a card saying she can spend the day reading and you'll take care of everything with the house and kids that day? I'd like that gift.

[Anonymous]

Here’s what I would love: massage gift card, garden center/nursery gift card. I desperately need new clothes, too, so a gift card to Nordstrom or Boden.

If you don’t want to do a gift card, go to Salt and Sundry and pick out virtually anything there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does she read? Can you buy her a new release book she'd like and a bottle of wine (or basket of her favorite snacks) and give that to her with a card saying she can spend the day reading and you'll take care of everything with the house and kids that day? I'd like that gift.

Heck yes! Add a hotel overnight and spa gift certificate if you’re feeling fancy.

Nice add ons: Rub her feet. Make or order her favorite dinner.

[Anonymous]

Pull the weeds like you promised.

[Anonymous]

I’m not a gift person and doing chores would 100% be my favorite gift ever.

Instead I get earrings, but I pick them out.

[Anonymous]

Silk pillowcase and scented candle from Nordstrom and a gift certificate to a spa

[Anonymous]

Event tickets? Favorite comedian, a play maybe?

[Anonymous]

Flowers, spa gift card, dinner at her favorite restaurant.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the helpful suggestions and parameters of what she likes, dislikes, budget, etc. Sounds like you know her about as well as we do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pull the weeds like you promised.

Really this. My husband tries and always asks about nice dinners or going out. What I really want is for him to fix the running toilet OR to stop objecting when I try to call a plumber. Do you have anything like this in hour house?

If not, a nice dinner somewhere that’s different but not too much of a production to get to. I don’t want or need more stuff in the house and don’t want a gift card.

[Anonymous]

Get her car detailed - one of my favorite gifts ever! (Note, not a gift card that requires her to follow up. Either take her car for the day or have a mobile service come to your home)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get her car detailed - one of my favorite gifts ever! (Note, not a gift card that requires her to follow up. Either take her car for the day or have a mobile service come to your home)

Toilet poster and I would like this but good advice. I don’t want a gift card. I want him to take the car to get it done for me.

[Anonymous]

Hire someone to clean the oven and fridge / organize a garage or something. And make it so she doesn't have to be there to arrange or supervise any of it.