I'm looking for a nice idea for a Christmas present for my partner, who I've been living with since August.
About the partner: He is 31, works as an educator in a day care center, is interested in outdoor survival, Marvel (but has enough Marvel cups ^^), Elvis Presley, interior / decoration, Pokémon, likes to read fantasy (but only on his Mother tongue Italian), plays the guitar and is currently being taught a little piano by me, and he is particularly enthusiastic about jazz.
He'll buy a PlayStation 5 or an Xbox (he's just about to decide) as soon as possible. He best chooses games himself, I don't know what he might like.
His favorite color is sun yellow.
My problem is that somehow he already has everything, and when he needs something, he'll buy it himself.
In the summer I want to give him survival training for free, if Covid allows it. For his birthday I had surprised him with an escape room and I had taken him to a romantic, small café. Of course, that doesn't work.
The budget is less than 50 euro. Something that can be experienced would be nice, but I can't think of anything that is currently possible. Hikes are nice, but we do that all the time and wouldn't be a Christmas present for me. I would also do something myself, drawing / painting / tinkering / poetry is no problem.
Can someone think of something suitable for their interests? Maybe on the subject of guitar / piano?
Previous gifts I gave him (so you can assess what else he likes):
City trips (of course no longer applicable)
Excursions and experiences such as escape rooms, planetarium, botanical garden, …
guided herb hike
Leipzig Book Fair
Captain America backpack
Fantasy novel in which I translated in pencil every word in Italian that he might not know
self-painted acrylic paintings on canvas
Pokémon booster packs / decks of cards
Photo album with various love letters
I would have, namely
If necessary, give him a voucher for a week or so with the tent after e.g. Italy into nature (he can then redeem it as soon as the Corona situation allows)
How about a book by Michael Winterhoff "Germany dumbfounded"?
A lost places calendar.
Thank you, as mentioned above, he doesn't read non-fiction books, more fantasy - and not in German, but in Italian.
Give him a CD by Oscar Peterson, but one on which he plays with the bass player Henning Oerstedt Pedersen.
Maybe that'll get him off the Marvel stuff
Thank you, we don't have anything to play CDs, he gets all the music there's from Spotify or Apple Music.
Thanks for your idea.
Nice idea, thank you. We actually already have something like that in mind in Saxon Switzerland.
On the subject of guitar / piano, you could of course give him a nice sheet music that contains pieces that meet his taste - or even better, that have a meaning for both of you (if there's, for example, a special artist or a musical genre, or also) only one piece). Then he can think of you while he plays and can act for you too. For the piano there might even be a volume of music with duets, if he likes duets.
To do this, I'd draw a card that might be superhero-themed - I don't know if that's too cheesy for your taste, but I got the idea that you'd draw the two of you as Marvel heroes. I'm totally excited about this…
Of course, cookies or other biscuits that are decorated accordingly are also cool on the subject - something like cookies that look like the Captain America shield or with symbols of other superheroes as desired. It was extremely well received when I received thematically appropriate birthday cookies.
Both of us as Marvel heroes; That sounds great. In some situations kitsch is quite desirable. Nice idea!
I was already thinking of a music tape, because I'm a bit overwhelmed by the large selection.
The cookies also sound fantastic, but I will hardly be able to make them secretly because I live with him and there's no place where I can hide them well before Christmas…
Great ideas anyway, they also got my brain twisted up a bit!
Glad to hear that. Best of luck with your gift search.
