What are you giving your Mother In Law for Xmas?

[Anonymous]

Or, have you had a really well received gift that you've given her on a recent holiday?

My kids are past the age of hand prints and I'll give her school photos in any case....

Thank you for your ideas!

[Anonymous]

Ask your husband for ideas of what his mother would like. Why is he not at least working with you on this? He'd have better advice than complete strangers on the Internet...I hope.

[Anonymous]

I've done a nice wood box filled with my favorite teas, fancy warm slippers, magazine rack, tickets to a show. My inlaws are not stuff people so we always do smaller gift exchange with them. They get me some earrings and my DH a book usually. I try to be personal with my gifts.

[Anonymous]

We usually give her an airline ticket.

[Anonymous]

DH figures this out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ask your husband for ideas of what his mother would like. Why is he not at least working with you on this? He'd have better advice than complete strangers on the Internet...I hope.

I am long divorced. She is still on my Xmas list, he is not. (Although I do help the kids buy something for him).

[Anonymous]

I make her a calendar with pics of the kids.

[Anonymous]

Amazon and Ulta gift cards.

[Anonymous]

Nothing - thankfully she and her other children are on the other side of the world, and we tacitly decided to stop sending gifts, as this was getting too laborious.

[Anonymous]

Both my MIL and mother are gone, but when they were here, I would give them luxury level items they would have cheaped out for themselves. Tings that would impact them daily.

nighties/sheets
hand cream in the scent of their preference
pedicures
slippers
playing cards
stationary (both were letter writers)
Kindle
Ipad so they could Facetime with everyone
Keurig
Chocolate (not for MIL as she hated it)
Monthly fruit from Harry and David


When we were with each other I would give them head/face massages and feet rubs, cook and take them out to dinner, take them to movies/plays.......

[Anonymous]

Nothing specific as she is in a nursing home with dementia and cannot comprehend gifts and things disappear all the time. I regularly buy her clothing and shoes, which get ruined or disappear. Usually we got her clothing, gift cards or something else she needed/wanted.

We have other family we do ship a box around the world. The shipping costs more than the items but what can you do.

[Anonymous]

We do an annual photo book of the kids. MyPublisher.com. Same thing every year.

[Anonymous]

A chance to redeem herself.

[Anonymous]

Haflinger slippers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A chance to redeem herself.