What to give to grandparents for the New Year: 6 interesting ideas

Gifts for the elderly should suit their tastes. But it is worth remembering that the life of your grandparents is often monotonous. Therefore, it is worth choosing gifts that will correspond to their interests, or even help them open up from an unexpected side for themselves.

1. Gift Certificate

The one who invented them is brilliant, because gift shops offer any stores: dishes, books, clothes, goods for hobbies, cosmetics. Such a gift is convenient in those cases when you know in general terms what the gift-givers love or do, but justly fear that when choosing a particular gift, be a fiasco, as you are not so good at understanding their hobbies. In a word, if you do not distinguish a wobbler from a wobbler and consider that a loop marker is such a felt-tip pen (despite the fact that your grandfather is an avid fisherman and your grandmother is an enthusiastic knitter), then a gift certificate is a good way out. A significant plus is that the stores offer certificates of different monetary values, 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 like 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 vice versa, introduce them to book novelties. Perhaps they will like something that has not been read before, and it is you who will open it for them. To make the gift even more interesting, you can work hard and get the author’s autograph or, for example, look at a second-hand bookstore for a rare copy.

If you are not good at book novelties, just contact a bookstore for advice: by asking two or three leading questions, a competent seller will choose the appropriate gift options. The price range of books makes it easy to make a choice.

There is another option: if grandparents write themselves, you can present beautifully published their own works for the New Year. The publisher will do everything from computer typing to cover design - and release as many copies as you order.

3.Hobby goods

Many older people have hobbies related to creativity. Someone embroiders with beads, someone knits, and someone glues models or paints. In this case, something that supports the passion is a suitable gift. Embroidery? Canvas (or ready-made drawings on the canvas), which must be filled with embroidery, a set of needles and threads, beads or advanced hoops. Knitting? Beautiful yarn from the new collection, a set of quality knitting needles or hooks of different diameters. Modeling? Prefabricated models, thin brushes, special paints. Paintings? Easel, palette, paints.

If you have knowledge gaps regarding your relatives' hobbies, you can try to fill them out by looking at the information on the Internet or consulting the seller. The prices for such a gift can be very different.

4. Gift-impression

This is not about extreme impressions, although there are also grandparents who jump with a parachute or descend to the depths with scuba gear. We simply admit to ourselves that many elderly people do not go out so often and can not always spend money on something beyond satisfying 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 shoot, dinner in a pleasant cafe or restaurant. Or maybe they have not been to a movie, 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 pleased them.

5. Cosmetic procedures

This idea is relevant for the female half of your relatives. And 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 nice: to visit the salon, enjoy a massage, make a beautiful haircut or hair color, do your hands and do a manicure.

But you have to be prepared for the fact that by putting your grandmother or aunt in front of a fact, you can meet resistance if she is not used to visiting beauty salons. So for starters you will have to defeat her embarrassment and fear: suddenly she will not like it, suddenly she will feel stupid. You know that she will be satisfied with the result.

Try to find good arguments in favor of your gift. For example, look at a project with your grandmother in which older 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 on both the salon and the selected procedures.

6. DIY gift

This gift is worth a lot, because you spent a lot of time, fantasy, effort on it. It keeps the warmth of your hands, in it your thoughts about the people you love and the love that you feel for them. Gifts can be very different. Maybe from the fall until the end of December you went to a ceramics studio and diligently made and painted a tea service? Or fingers pricked themselves, but in the end still managed to sew a new apron and a set of tacks for their grandmother? Or, carried away by an important business, forgot about the shavings in their hair, while they themselves made a frame for a photo collage, which they themselves did again? Or did they mount a video about how they spent summer at their grandparents' dacha?

There may be many gift options - why not room for imagination? Money 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 you love.

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