First birthday gift ideas
What gift do you give a soon-to-be one-year-old who is likely to show more interest in the packaging than the present? If you’re tearing your hair out trying to come up with a solution that will make both parents and child happy, or be useful to the little one in future (or indeed both) then take a look at some of the great first birthday gift ideas suggested (and tried and tested!) by gransnetters.
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Cold hard cash!
You could just skip the middle-man altogether and start a savings account for the little one. It will be a while before he/she learns the value of it, but you’ll be looking pretty good when that happens!
jeni puts "money in her savings account for when she (hopefully) goes to uni!”, and HildaW adds money to her grandson's building society account "as the mood takes [her] or the housekeeping allows!".
And Granny23's farming relatives had a unique take on it - they "gave each of their children a lamb and another at each birthday. At shearing the money from their sheep went into their bank accounts, yielding a substantial sum by the time they were eighteen". A genius plan - although perhaps not if the child in question lives in a high rise...
