Good gift for 72-year-old parents?

[Anonymous]

They have everything but hate to cook and are picky about delivery.
Ideas??

[Anonymous]

Photo yearbook of their grandkids?

[Anonymous]

For my parents' anniversary we looked at the upscale restaurants in their area are doing delivery and we had them deliver a three course meal complete with bottle of wine and special dessert. The restaurant was so sweet, they added candles and matches and also typed up a personal menu that talked about how many years they'd been together, etc.

Then we zoomed with them so it would be like we are out to dinner with them. Except we were eating frozen pizza.

[Anonymous]

Box of fancy oranges and grapefruits. A panettone. Amaryllis bulb in a pot.

[Anonymous]

Readers Digest large print books.
$20 for five books, and there are two books in each book.

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[Anonymous]

Someone to come to their home once a month and do deep cleaning. Maybe this is a gift better suited for after covid.

I am 61 and retired about a year ago. I had intentions of keeping a spotless house now that I have time to do so. But I find that cleaning the up high stuff is a little intimidating now that I am older. Stuff like the ceiling fans, the overhead lights that somehow get dead bugs in them, the shower curtain rod, the A/C vents on the ceiling, etc. Cleaning that stuff didn't use to bother me when I was younger, but it does now that I am older. I would love to have someone do that stuff for me.

Also, now that I am not driving much anymore because of being retired and because of covid, I notice when I go out to my car every couple weeks, that it needs to be washed. So . . . a gift certificate to get my car detailed would be nice.

[Anonymous]

In years past, places like Costco used to sell big boxes of assorted greeting cards. So that, roll of forever stamps, and a good pen.

[Anonymous]

We are getting this for my MILs 74th birthday.

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[Anonymous]

A really indulgent treat from goldbelly? Maybe something associated with a favorite vacation spot they can’t visit at the moment? Books, some diet of gadget like wireless speaker or headphones, espresso machine, signup for virtual classes like some of the Smithsonian programs

[Anonymous]

We are buying grandma a year of Netflix and my son (her great grandchild) is writing her a user manual and making her a list of recommended shows and movies based on other things she likes.

[Anonymous]

They’re still pretty young. Perhaps some lovely massage oils and a nice candle for their bedroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Readers Digest large print books.
$20 for five books, and there are two books in each book.

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What makes you think they can't read normal-size type just because they're 72? And the Reader's Digest? Umm.... no. How about a gift subscription to The New Yorker? That's what the DS and I read and we're both in our mid-seventies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Readers Digest large print books.
$20 for five books, and there are two books in each book.

https://partnersforsight.org/subscribe/

What makes you think they can't read normal-size type just because they're 72? And the Reader's Digest? Umm.... no. How about a gift subscription to The New Yorker? That's what the DS and I read and we're both in our mid-seventies.

I am the person who suggested the large print books. I am in my 60's and I like the large print books because I don't have to wear my reading glasses while reading them.
Also, I was suggesting books, not the magazine. If you are in your 70's then surely you remember the Reader's Digest condensed books. They were fiction and nonfiction books and like 4 books in one volume. This is the same thing but in large print.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are buying grandma a year of Netflix and my son (her great grandchild) is writing her a user manual and making her a list of recommended shows and movies based on other things she likes.

This is very sweet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Readers Digest large print books.
$20 for five books, and there are two books in each book.

https://partnersforsight.org/subscribe/

What makes you think they can't read normal-size type just because they're 72? And the Reader's Digest? Umm.... no. How about a gift subscription to The New Yorker? That's what the DS and I read and we're both in our mid-seventies.

I am the person who suggested the large print books. I am in my 60's and I like the large print books because I don't have to wear my reading glasses while reading them.
Also, I was suggesting books, not the magazine. If you are in your 70's then surely you remember the Reader's Digest condensed books. They were fiction and nonfiction books and like 4 books in one volume. This is the same thing but in large print.

Because you’re too old to read the whole book? I don’t know... my parents & stepparents all in their 70s, read and enjoy some of the same books I do...

Some of these gifts sound like they’re for my (now dead) grandparents, who would be in their 90s/100s...