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What kind of presents do you get for the person who has everything?
This is a quandary many gift-givers face no matter the occasion.
While gift cards are always a safe option, they lack creativity and seem impersonal no matter what the value is on the card.
The key to giving great gifts is putting some thought into it, which is something that one gender seems to excel at over the other.
Curious to hear of the most memorable gifts received, Redditor Trifle58 asked:
"Men, what is the most thoughtful present you have received from a woman?"
These generous acts made a life-lasting impression.
A Classmate's Kind Gesture
"A backpack."
"we never had that much money at home and so I had to make do with a backpack that had me cursing more often than not, broken zipper, pens slipping out through cracks, the works."
"and then one day out of the blue, a clasmate presented me with a new backpack, almost same colour as my last one."
"I never knew why she did that, I still have that backpack and it vexes me to this day."
– dikkewezel
Concert Date Night
"Tickets
to my favourite band that was on my bucket list since a teenager. The
concert was in a different country and she hated the genre but went
anyway."
– Paudyyy
Invisible Dress
"An ex-girlfriend knew how much I loved bubble wrap, and when getting to her house, greeted me wearing nothing but bubble wrap. i still think about it."
– CottonStig
An Original Creation
"I have epilepsy and thanks to that and my meds, i have a horrible memory."
"My girlfriend started making my one-year anniversary gift the day we started dating. She wanted me to remember everything we did in our first year, and secretly scrapbooked absolutely everything."
"Movie tickets, room keys, hundreds of photos, inside jokes, texts we’ve sent eachother, dreams and goals we have, etc. Aside from the blank scrapbook, she made everything herself. All the artwork, design, and layout was original."
"It is easily one of the most precious things I own. The fact somebody literally took a year to build something for me without saying anything was unreal."
– mozzarella_lavalamp
The Father She Deserved
"My girlfriend gave me a little bullet necklace that contained the ashes of her deceased child who passed away from terminal illness before I came into the picture. Her actual father is a drug-addicted, abusive a**hole. She gave me that and told me I was the father her little girl deserved."
"I wish I got to meet you A <3"
– TheBillborgianOne
These gentlemen scored in the marriage department.
Got A Keeper
"This may seem like a little thing compared to some, but recently I'd been going at 150% for months. Between work, family obligations, all sorts of stressors in life, I desperately needed some down time and saw no chance for it in the near future."
"Then I noticed on the calendar my wife had cleared an entire week and wrote in 'khendron is a vegetable' with a cute sketch of a different vegetable every day. Each day I'd ask if there was anything that I needed to do, and she'd just say 'No, you are ... <checks calendar> an asparagus today. Go do whatever you want.' Love that woman!"
– khendron
Trip Of A Lifetime
"My wife's birthday is 2 weeks apart from my mom's. Before this past year my mom had never been to Europe before. My wife was turning 30 and my mom turning 60. Instead of planning her own 30th birthday trip, she instead planned a trip for the two of us to take my mom on a trip to Europe for her 60th birthday. It was such an incredibly selfless thing to do, and it was a trip of a lifetime for all of us."
– HogFin
'Tis The Season For Gratitude
"My wife is the best gift-giver, especially around Christmas. Here are a few of my favorites:"
"When the Wii first came out, she got up at the butt-crack of dawn, very pregnant, didn't wake me up or tell me she was going anywhere. I thought she went out grocery shopping or something and let me sleep in. When she got home, she told me to go out to the trunk to bring in the groceries and there was a Wii sitting in the trunk. She'd waited in line pregnant all morning to get me a first wave Wii."
"Last year or the year before, she gave me a copy of Jay and Silent Bob's Mall Brawl and she made me a custom Clerks comic strip to go along with it that she drew completely by hand on her ipad pro (you can actually see this on my post history)."
"This year my wife got me really good seats to see Foo Fighters when they come to Seattle, and since tickets are all digital now, she made me custom 'tickets' and encased them in an acrylic frame."
– SweetCosmicPope
Treasuring A Lost Companion
"My wife is a portrait artist - and an incredibly talented one, at that."
"For my first birthday after we met; she went way back through my IG for reference photos and painted a portrait of my beloved dog that'd passed away several years before we met."
"It's one of my most very loved possessions."
– NoIncrease299
Memory Scrapbook
"I got hit by a car 20 some years ago and my brain is a bit scrambled from time to time. Memory comes and goes."
My wife got me a little booklet of receipts and clippings and photos of all these dates/outings we’ve had over the years. She’ll mention to me in conversation and I can’t really recall but seeing the physical memories really brings me back to those moments."
"Excuse me while I cry."
– BlueCollarGuru
Always Keeping Time
"My wife gifted me an incredible watch when I earned my masters degree. I’ve worn it proudly and gratefully for 45+ years."
– pedro-slopez
Reunited With Lost Ornaments
"There was these Christmas ornaments that my family had when I was a kid. It was a set of 1980 Avon gingerbread man and woman. Their smell always reminded me of Christmas. When I was a teenager our dog ate them."
"I mentioned this to my wife one day and this last Christmas she somehow found the two ornaments online and gave them to me for Christmas. It was the only gift I ever received that made me cry. I love those ornaments."
– rich4pres
Moms are the best.
Her Sweet Valentine
"When I was in 11th grade I was really sad that all the guys in my class had girlfriends and were exchanging gifts on valentines day and I joked about it to my mom not thinking much of it and the next day my mom bought me chocolates and a teddy bear with a heart. My heart melted and I started crying a bit it was really sweet of her."
– Intelligent_Profit88
Keeping Sentimental Style
"My MIL had an uncanny ability to find shirts and jackets for me for Christmas. I usually hate people giving me clothes and I'm difficult to shop for. I never expectied a gift from her but she always found something so I wouldn't be left out of gift opening."
"Everything she got me always ended up as some of my favorite stuff. I'm still wearing a jacket with a rip in the shoulder because it's one of the warmest most comfortable jackets I have ever own. She passed away 15 months ago and it makes me sad to think of getting rid of anything she got me. F'k cancer."
– ndc4051
The best gift I ever got was a Casio electronic keyboard from a high school bandmate.
I was blown away to have received such a gift from someone who wasn't a family member.
It wasn't my birthday, though. It wasn't Christmas time either. I didn't know how to play the piano, for that matter.
So why did I receive such a generous gift?
It turns out that I was the object of her affection.
Although the feeling wasn't mutual, I kept the gift.
Looking back, however, I wonder if I shouldn't have accepted the fancy gift being that the gesture stemmed from ulterior motives.
What would you have done in my situation?