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My grandparents are in their 80's and are the hardest people to buy christmas, birthday and other types of gifts for.
They have practaly everything they need and if we get them something that is new out there they don't understand how to use it. They don't have a DVD player, it's too complicated. I'm actually supprised they have cable tv and a computer and are able to use them.
We get them giftcertifictes but if we get them for somewhere they don't go it's more of a pain for them to use. We will get them giftcertificates for places they do shop or eat but they usually end up getting a ton of them for those places and they all don't get used before the next holliday. Plus not that giftcertificates look like charge cards they have trouble understanding how to use them. They don't understand that the card is for say $25, they think that they are charging something to us and we will get a bill and have to pay for it.
I cooked my grandpap a dinner for his birthday, I'm pretty sure he liked that. For christmas I wrote my grandma a nice 'love you' letter in a card, plus we also got them a giftcertificate.
I know in general they really don't care if we get them anything. Just spending time with us is the best, which I spend alot of time with them. They are also the ones that take me to alot of my dr appts, go to the grocery store with and almost anywhere I need to go since I can't drive.
I just don't want to show up without some sort of gift for them. I know I could just give them a card. But when everyone else has something in the card that they give them I really don't want mine to be empty.
I do have family that lives less than half a mile away, aunt, uncle and cousin. My aunt visits about once a month, sometimes my uncle comes along too. My cousin, in his 40s still in college (never quit going since he graduated highschool) with no job and still living at home. Really big looser but I won't get into the details would take too long to type, really only visits when he is going to get something. Thanksgiving means food and Christmas means money.
Any ideas on gifts for them?
They have practaly everything they need and if we get them something that is new out there they don't understand how to use it. They don't have a DVD player, it's too complicated. I'm actually supprised they have cable tv and a computer and are able to use them.
We get them giftcertifictes but if we get them for somewhere they don't go it's more of a pain for them to use. We will get them giftcertificates for places they do shop or eat but they usually end up getting a ton of them for those places and they all don't get used before the next holliday. Plus not that giftcertificates look like charge cards they have trouble understanding how to use them. They don't understand that the card is for say $25, they think that they are charging something to us and we will get a bill and have to pay for it.
I cooked my grandpap a dinner for his birthday, I'm pretty sure he liked that. For christmas I wrote my grandma a nice 'love you' letter in a card, plus we also got them a giftcertificate.
I know in general they really don't care if we get them anything. Just spending time with us is the best, which I spend alot of time with them. They are also the ones that take me to alot of my dr appts, go to the grocery store with and almost anywhere I need to go since I can't drive.
I just don't want to show up without some sort of gift for them. I know I could just give them a card. But when everyone else has something in the card that they give them I really don't want mine to be empty.
I do have family that lives less than half a mile away, aunt, uncle and cousin. My aunt visits about once a month, sometimes my uncle comes along too. My cousin, in his 40s still in college (never quit going since he graduated highschool) with no job and still living at home. Really big looser but I won't get into the details would take too long to type, really only visits when he is going to get something. Thanksgiving means food and Christmas means money.
Any ideas on gifts for them?
