Whenever we celebrate birthday, mom's day, dad's day, etc., we start by having the honoree tell us what they want to eat for a meal, either breakfast or dinner.

H loved spam growing up; so about 3 yrs ago on Father's Day we made spam sandwiches. I grew up on spam too, but I don't have the fond remembrance he does.

Some gift ideas: H loves grills; so we bought him this crazy griller/smoker thing. This year I was planning to "steal" his pickup away and have a new seat installed and the A/C repaired. He doesn't do anything to maintain the truck and it stinks and is so gross. He paid 700 bucks couple of years ago to have it repaired, but took it to a shade tree mechanic in lieu of a company that would have warrantied the work.

We could afford a new vehicle, but since I'm helping to pay off he and EW's 90K in debt and living day to day to travel and never save a dime, I told him he would drive it until it imploded.

If your husband loves coffee, find a local coffee roaster and make a basket with specialty coffees with a mug that says best day or something. H got a kayak one year. Also one year gave him coupons for a weekend with the guys, a weekend cave diving, a full body massage, etc. He used those dang coupons religiously.

Hope this helps and sorry for my interwoven venting. I am going to go take a bubble bath and try to help my mood.

Evil Diva

My DH does so the kids and I are getting him a subscription for a year. What are his interests? Where are his favorite places to go? My SDs are getting their dad a gift certificate to Harley Davidson. Gift certificates are good gifts too.

Does he like sports? Could you get tickets to a sporting event?

This year I'm going to get FH cologne and probably a restaurant. Are you traveling by car? Could you possibly research and find a nice stop on the route to stop at?

"He grew up in my heart, not my belly"

I'm getting a keepsake box with a hinge lid made for him from each of the kids. I'm going to get a picture of them with their dad set into the lid, with their names engraved on the lid. Happy Fathers Day, June 21, 2009. Love, xxxx.<--or something along those lines.

I'm going to get some nice paper, have them write a nice letter to their dad, decorate it, and glue it to the inside of the lid. The box itself will be filled with hand written memories that they have had with their father. Ex: my favorite memory with you was when we all went fishing, crabbing, hunting, crawfishing etc. Or: I loved it when we went on the motorcycle together. Or: I love ice cream sundae nights, movie nights, going to the park.

That way, it's personal, meaningful, heartfelt. Each child can write whatever they want, and have this opportunity to really show their father that they do appreciate everything he does for them.

likes hunting and fishing. In the two years we have been together, he has bought very little for himself. When he does he spends like $5-20 on fishing lures and things of that nature. I plan on getting him a gift card for places that he can buy things he needs or wants for his hobbies.

* got him a subscription to his favorite fishing magazine
* a weekend fishing trip with the guys
* a fishing pole, tackle box holder
* a shiny new coffee pot that he has been hinting at forever, with useless extras.

I saw a store like that the other day... and they had so many things that you can personalize...

How about a wallet with his name? I would probably be doing that for DH as his wallet is so used... and I think that would be nice...

In order to have more accurate presents, I came up with an idea a few months ago... I created a Folder and is on our desktop... named "OUR wish list" in the folder there are two different Excel documents, one with my name, the other one with his...

Everytime I see or think of something that i like/want i add it to the list... and he is supposed to do the same...

so when a special occasion comes up (or at any time), the other person can easily access the other person's wanted items...

In theory, that is supposed to avoid the whole "what do you want for christmas/bday/motherday/fatherday/etc...

And hopefully the other person would not JUST get something from the list, but it is definitely a help...

I have different sections, i have "what is it?", "price", "where to get it", "brand", "price" "picture"... so all the info is provided... hehehehe

~You can see clearly only with your heart. What is truly important is invisible to the eyes~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's