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Since I’ve done a few reviews of really great Christmas gifts for kids of various ages, I thought I’d mention gifts for families. Sometimes it makes more sense to choose one gift for everyone rather than several smaller gifts. My own kids are spread out in age too much for that but I still face this issue with my parents and my mother-in-law. In these situations, “family gift” means that several families go in together to purchase one larger gift for those people who really don’t need anything small, You, people like your retired parents?
When my mother-in-law mentioned that she’d always wanted one of the beautiful Howard Miller grandfather clocks she had seen at a small shop downstate, we just knew that it would make a perfect gift for her. That was years ago and that clock has made 3 moves with her over those years and is still just as beautiful today as it was then.
Finding the perfect clock for my mother-in-law was a bit of a challenge. There were few stores in our area and we didn’t have the internet back then. Shopping for such a special gift is so much easier today! Really, we have the entire shopping world at our fingertips, don’t we?
Since I’ve been struggling to find a suitable gift for my own parents this year, I’ve been doing some shop-surfing and I just keep going back to the beautiful clocks by Howard Miller. Nothing else I find catches my eye like those do. Since I haven’t discussed this with my parents, though, and would rather not since it would be a gift, I’ve been reading about tips on buying the perfect clock as a gift. There’s so much to learn about clocks, home decor and how to make a smart purchase!
As much as I’d love to surprise my parents, I think I probably need to run this past my mom first. I hope she’s interested; I’ve already picked out three favorites!
