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Father's Day is hard when DH doesn't have an office!
All the cute ideas I've seen or come up with involve something for a father to display or use in his outside-the-house office. My DH is in sales and works from home/ out of his car, and I'm *clueless* about what to get him. Even the cute D-A-D photo seems like something to take to work. There's not really anywhere in our house for such a thing, kwim?
I try to do sentimental gifts for holidays such as this, but I actually broke from pattern and asked DH if there was anything he wanted - golfballs, he responded. (Very specific, expensive golfballs, but still.) Fine, whatever, but I'd like something "sweeter" to go with it.
Any ideas?
If your DH doesn't have an office - what are you getting him for Father's Day?
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Re: Father's Day is hard when DH doesn't have an office!
My DH has an office but I tend to get him wine/food related gifts. Last year I got him a Margarita Maker and this year I got him a wine chilling bucket. LOL. Not very sentimental I guess but he loves stuff like that. I do give him sentimental/personalized cards and stuff with messages from Toodle/Doodles but the gifts, not so much. He already has TONS of pics and frames with Toodle in his office...
ETA: For his 40th bday last year I got him a monthly wine club membership - if your DH is into wine or beer you could do something like that to enjoy at home? But again, not very sentimental. I swear, we are not alcoholics! It's just DH's only real "hobby" outside of very high end stereo equipment which we no longer have room or a setup for...
DH doesn't have a permanent office but we do have a home office that we share.
This year he got a new BBQ grill. I gave it to him early since we use it all of the time. I was going to get him some new grilling accessories, they have a lot to pick from at Sur la Table. I still have to figure out a more sentimental gift to go with it. Last year my play group had a woman come in and do all of the kids hand prints in a clay mold. It was glazed and says Happy Father's Day along with dds name and the date. We have it hanging in our bedroom. The year dd was born I got him cuff links with her initial and a BOB jogging stroller since he loves to run.
I always make Father's Day cards for him. The past 2 years I've had dd put her hand prints in them and this year I'm going to let her decorate the card herself and put DS hand prints in it.
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Last year I put together a photobook from shutterfly of pictures of G and Daddy with funny captions thanking him for all he does for her. (we have a pic of her grabbing a beer I am holding and another of her putting a cigar, in its case, in her mouth-- yes, we are that good of parents!) and the caption says "thank you for teaching me that drinking and smoking don't make you cool" and then the adjacent page is a picture of her in a snowsuit and sunglasses looking like a bada$$ and that caption says "being cool, makes you cool".
I will probably do another one this year so we have the pictures, (she LOVES looking at those books) but if that isn't your thing-- how about tee fees for a nice golf course to go along with the golf balls?
My DH does have an office, but I don't really do "office gifts!" Lol!
This year he is getting: (and some of this is coming from my mom and aunts too...):
-A Kindle
-A Kindle cover with light
-Some new bathing suits
-Grill Daddy grill brush......if your DH likes to grill, this brush looks pretty cool! Look it up! You can buy them at Home Depot, Lowes, etc.
-Maybe some new ties
Nothing too exciting (except the Kindle!), but I don't do a lot of office stuff either. My DH likes pics to put in his office, but he doesn't like a cluttered space, so I don't bother with "desk" stuff.