The eve of New Year's holidays is the time for choosing gifts. What to give to whom? What to choose to like the gift? With gifts for elderly relatives, the situation is not easy, not least because these are people with their own preferences, which often do not completely coincide with your ideas about useful and beautiful things. To help you, we offer some good gift ideas that your grandparents will surely love.
Gifts for seniors should suit their tastes. But remember that the life of your grandparents is often monotonous. Therefore, it is worth choosing gifts that will meet their interests, or even help them to reveal themselves from a side that is unexpected for them.
1. Gift certificate
The one who invented them is a genius, because gift certificates are offered by any store: dishes, books, clothes, hobby goods, cosmetics. Such a gift is convenient in cases where you know in general terms what the recipients love or are fond of, but rightly fear that when choosing a particular gift you will fail, since you are not so well versed in their hobbies. In a word, if you do not distinguish a plug from a wobbler and think that a loop marker is such a felt-tip pen (despite the fact that your grandfather is an avid fisherman, and your grandmother is a keen knitter), then a gift certificate is a good way out. A significant plus is that stores offer certificates of various monetary denominations, and you can choose the one that is optimal in each case.
2. Book
A book is a gift that is always appreciated by everyone. In order not to miss the gift, you just need to know what your grandparents love to read. Surely you know their tastes.
However, this gift can be approached in different ways: choose an author whose books your grandparents love, or, conversely, introduce them to book novelties. Perhaps they will like something they have not read before, and it is you who will open it up for them. To make the gift even more interesting, you can work hard and get the author's autograph or, for example, look for a rare copy in a second-hand book store.
If you are not well versed in book novelties, just seek advice from the bookstore: after asking two or three leading questions, a competent seller will select suitable gift options. The price range of books makes it easy to make a choice.
There is another option: if the grandmother or grandfather write themselves, you can present beautifully published works of their own for the New Year. The publishing house will do everything from computer typing to cover design - and will release as many copies as you order.
3. Hobby products
Many older people have creative hobbies. Someone embroiders with beads, someone knits, and someone glues models or paints pictures. In this case, something that supports the hobby would be a suitable gift. Embroidery? Canvas (or ready-made designs on the canvas), which must be filled with embroidery, a set of needles and threads, beads or improved hoops. Knitting? Beautiful yarn from the new collection, a set of quality knitting needles or crochet hooks of different diameters. Modeling? Prefabricated models, fine brushes, special paints. Pictures? Easel, palette, paints.
If you have gaps in your knowledge of your relatives' hobbies, you can try to fill them by looking at information on the Internet or by consulting with a seller. Prices for such a gift can be very different.
4. Gift-impression
We are not talking about extreme experiences, although there are some grandparents who jump with a parachute or go down to the depth with scuba diving. We just admit to ourselves that many older people do not go out very often and can not always spend money on something in excess of meeting their primary needs. It is you who can diversify their life by giving them something that they have not allowed themselves for a long time or cannot afford at all. It can be a photo session, dinner in a nice cafe or restaurant. Or maybe they haven't been to the cinema, theater or concert for a long time? Give them this opportunity: we are sure that later they will be happy to remember how their grandchildren made them happy.
5. Cosmetic procedures
This idea is relevant for the female half of your relatives. And it is doubly relevant for relatives of the elderly, because they, as a rule, cannot or do not want to spend money on their pleasures. But it can be so pleasant: visit the salon, enjoy a massage, get a beautiful haircut or hair coloring, do your hands and do a manicure.
But you have to be prepared for the fact that, having presented your grandmother or aunt with a fact, you may be met with resistance if she is not used to visiting beauty salons. So, first you have to overcome her embarrassment and fear: suddenly she does not like it, suddenly she will feel stupid. You know that she will be pleased with the result.
Try to find a compelling case for your gift. For example, take a look with your grandmother at a project in which elderly women are completely transformed by means of cosmetology, or in which women of her age are trying something new. Such projects can be found online or on television. The price range is wide and depends both on the salon and on the selected procedures.
6. DIY gift
This gift is worth a lot, because you spent a lot of time, imagination, effort on it. It keeps the warmth of your hands, it contains your thoughts about people dear to you and the love that you feel for them. Gifts can be very different. Maybe you went to the ceramics studio from autumn to the end of December and diligently made and painted a tea set? Or they pricked their fingers, but in the end they still managed to sew a new apron and a set of oven mitts for their grandmother? Or, carried away by an important matter, did they forget about the shavings in their hair while they were making a frame for a photo collage with their own hands, which they again made themselves? Or have you edited a video about how you spent the summer at your grandparents' dacha?
There can be many options for a gift - why not room for imagination? Cash investments in such a gift can be very different, starting from 0 rubles. After all, the main thing in such a gift is your attention, your diligence and love for people dear to you.
