Go back to Impress His Mother This Holiday Season
You'll be the ultimate daughter-in-law (or should be) with one of these hostess gifts in hand.
Standard gift: Music CD.
Impress her with: Find the next best (or even better) thing. Find out her favorite artist, then log on to audiomap.tuneglue.net. Type in the artist, hit "expand," and the site will give you similar music. (Note: even if you don't plan to buy your FMIL music, this site is worth clicking around on. Very fun.)
What you say when you present it: "I heard you love so-and-so's music. I figured you might have his latest release, so I found a very similar artist you might like. Let me know how it is!"
I got my BFs mom some notecards from etsy.com. She loved them. Etsy is awesome.
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I got a bfs mom a cd that had some bluegrass music on it because I heard she loved bluegrass. well, apparently they said "damn" in one of the songs and she was SOOOOO offended. and passive aggressive about it. Obviously that didn't work out.
Candles always work. Sure, it's a little unoriginal, but women like candles. They have entire stores at the mall that sell nothing but candles, clearly someone is onto something.
i would probably give her the needlepoint journal. she's crafty and would love something like that. although, if you have to buy your MIL's love maybe there's something wrong???
I always like to give a nice plant. But I might try that tea stuff.
If you give her a cookbook, will she be offended? like you think she should cook better or am I reading too much into this?
what about if your MIL is totally cheap and doesn't like it if you spend money. like my sister's MIL. She just likes it when my sister shows up and she wouldn't mind if she had a baby :)
I love this. The blossoming tea one is perfect. My FMIL loves tea and doilies, so she'll probably love this.
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