swtonscrappn
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Post by swtonscrappn on Aug 16, 2014 23:01:00 GMT
Need ideas for a good friend who is turning 50. I dont have a lot to spend (maybe $30-50). Im thinking something 50 themed...something silly. She doesn't need stuff for stuff sake. Throw me your best ideas!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2014 23:40:17 GMT
All I can say is no gag gifts. My best gift when I turned fifty was a half dollar necklace with the year of my birth. Don't know where my GF got it.
Ann
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Post by wandawoman on Aug 17, 2014 0:15:47 GMT
Someone I know made a pillow and sewed on 50 buttons for a 50th birthday. Inexpensive, but a nice keepsake.
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Post by renateb on Aug 17, 2014 0:19:16 GMT
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Post by Debbie on Aug 17, 2014 0:34:55 GMT
www.oldtimecandy.com/?utm_source=shareasalei have given this a few times - they have a box of candy called the Decade Box. They recommend choosing the decade in which the recipient would have been 10 years old. it's always been well received and is really fun to remember the candy of our youth!
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Post by roundtwo on Aug 17, 2014 0:39:31 GMT
A friend recently had her 50th birthday and I too had a very limited budget. I wanted to mark her birthday in a fun way but didn't want just a bunch of gimmicky stuff so I googled her birth year and found some fun things that marked 1964. For instance our new flag was adopted in 1964 and to mark that I found her a Canadian flag luggage tag. The Beatles hit North America big that year so I got her a Beatles jigsaw puzzle as she is a big Beatles fan and loves jigsaw puzzles. I picked up a few more things but can't remember the others. Oh, remembered another one - the Leafs won the Stanley Cup so I picked up a hand-towel from the dollar store. Oh and another one - a Tim Horton's gift card since they also marked 50 years this year.
She really enjoyed the gift and it was fun for me to put it together. 
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Post by renateb on Aug 17, 2014 0:49:00 GMT
50 gold dollar coins wrapped in a nice black velvet lined box.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2014 0:56:17 GMT
I just went to a 50th party a couple of weekends ago, and her sister gave her a basket of things that were invented in 1964: Lucky Charms and PopTarts were among them. There was a Willie Wonka DVD because the book was published in 1964 (guess she didn't think my friends would read a book), and on some things she just put the price, like what a Hershey bar cost then. Other candy, like Pez, she found an actual piece from 1964.
It was a lot of fun.
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swtonscrappn
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Post by swtonscrappn on Aug 22, 2014 18:54:00 GMT
Thanks for all the ideas. I started to run out of time to order anything (party was yesterday). So I took a few of the suggestions listed here and made her a necklace with some symbols. The pic isnt great but this is what I made[URL=http://s1188.photobucket.com/user/Jen_
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luvnlifelady
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Post by luvnlifelady on Aug 22, 2014 19:19:39 GMT
I like some of these ideas. I will pass them on to family since mine is next August. I really like the candy idea.
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Post by carolynhasacat on Aug 22, 2014 19:24:29 GMT
50 $1 scratch tickets. That would make for a fun afternoon. She'll likely win something with that many tickets, so it's really 2 gifts in one.  |
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