NHG.. birthday gift for 90 year old grandmother

[bg09]

What are some good birthday gift ideas for a 90 year old Grandmother?  Help!

[boiler717]

Stationary and stamps
PJs / house coat or slippers
Basket of candies and snacks
Framed pictures of family

[sailorgray]

My nana always liked getting those big boxes of greeting cards. They have birthday,anniversary, get well, new baby, etc. cards in them. They are always so pretty and she loved looking at them. Plus, it was great because she couldn't get out to buy cards and she was a very big card giver. I think those and some forever stamps would be great. Maybe some flowers too.

[Deleted]

This will sound lame but by them time my Grandma was that age she didn't need anything. So we would do things for her. I would go visit, cut her grass, take her out to lunch, just spend the whole day visiting. She enjoyed that more then any gift.

[auntie]

kjewel has a good point.

Good quality unscented skin cream or lotion is generally popular

Large print books/magazines

Stationary and stamps

[Ramz-ee]

For her 80th, we put together a scrapbook of pictures of her and my grandfather, her kids, grandkids, etc.

For her 90th, we all got together and had a family portrait done - her included, of course. Then I framed the picture for her.

[munkii]

kjewel is right when it comes to H's grandma (the only living grandparent either of us has). She's in her 90s and doesn't want/need anything but will accept stamps and gift cards. Every now and then she'll make a certain request from one person.

[julygal]

My aunt made it very clear at the 90th birthday that Grandma didn't need anything. She was purging things at that point and not wanting to accumulate. My aunt recommended candies or flowers and also collected notes for a scrapbook. Everyone sent in their memories of my grandma and she LOVED reading them.

[tarheels]

I agree with not buying a "thing" unless it's something consumable that you know she'd use. A note of your favorite times with her, a framed photo of the two of you, flowers, a girls' lunch, or something along those lines is what I vote for.

[SusanBAnthony]

Spring flowers, either a bouquet or plant her front garden for her, or a hanging basket, if she has a place for one and is physically able to water it.

We get fil who needs nothing and appreciates nothing, fancy food stuff. Like flavored olive oil or fancy honey or fancy cheese or fancy local jams- so he can just eat it and at least it won't be wasted. I get them from either a local foods store, the farmers market, or a gourmet food store.

[thiswillbe]

When my grandmother turned 90 I bought her a pearl and diamond necklace. Sure, she didn't "need" it and probably only wore it a handful of times before she passed away, but she LOVED it. She was so proud to show it to people and tell them that her granddaughter bought it for her. When she turned 91, I gave her matching earrings. I'm so glad I decided to scrape together a bunch of money to do something extravagant for her.

Another birthday I got some of the grandkids to write her letters detailing their special / favorite memories of her, and put them in a binder along with pictures of her and us from when we were kids. She really loved that, as well. (Of course nowadays you'd make a book; the binder-with-sheet-protectors thing is so last century. ;-))

[prazenjc]

these are really easy to make and you can ask for pix from all her kids/grandkids, etc. to include on it. Good sized letters in paper mache/cardboard like material can be gotten from Joann's Fabrics, spray paint and then mod podge the pix. its a great memory.

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[TBM]

My grandmother loved to get sweets. We would stop by a bakery and buy her an assortment of desserts.


One of the best gifts that we have ever given my mom is the digital frame we gave her for Mother's Day. Everyone (except us) is pretty good about sending photos to it, so she gets to see great grandsons, dogs, children and grandchildren...even if most of them don't live near her. She put the fram on a table that she passes many times a day, and always notices when there is a new photo added.

[gtkim]

We gave my Grandma 90 scratch off lottery tickets.

[aweilba]

Well, my Great-Grandma just turned 100 in March.  She didn't want anything except for everybody to get together at her house to eat dinner and visit.  Honestly, for the past 15 years or so, that's what we do for her for her birthday.  We'll usually help her out around her house, too, if she needs anything cleaned or fixed.  We also sometimes buy her some flowers, but she doesn't like it when people spend money on her now; she says she's already got too much stuff.  

Edit:  Just remembered.  For her 95th birthday, we were able to find my Great-Grandpa's Ellis Island papers and the picture they took of him when he arrived in the states from Germany.  We also found a picture of the ship he sailed in on and had all of that put together in a shadow box.  It made her cry, but she absolutely loved the meaning behind that.  So maybe something sentimental or personal, like a family picture or something would be nice.