a gift

By tracie | Published: May 20, 2010

Seriously.

What do you give to the man who has everything?  Or the man who doesn’t want or need what you give him, so he throws it away.  Yeah.  It’s like that.

And this year was a special milestone for the man born on 5.5.55.  A member of the 5th generation.  Born on the 5th day of the week.  Who has 5 children.  And turned 55 this year.  Oh! and tends to play 5 red in Vegas! ;)

Anyway, the pressure for something special was on.

Handmade and sentimental was definitely the way to go this year!

We all wrote little sentiments on index cards … 55 of them in total … and rolled them up and put them into a special birthday jar.

I modged podged some gift wrap to the jar {double-sided taped it first}, made a little tag and we were off to the races.

He loved it, the girls loved doing it, and it’s sitting proudly in the kitchen where he “unwraps” one sentiment for 55 days.

A definite hit this year!

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16 Comments

  1. Heather
    Posted May 20, 2010 at 6:15 am | Permalink

    I LOVE IT!!! The perfect gift for him!

  2. Sue
    Posted May 20, 2010 at 8:54 am | Permalink

    What a great idea! Jon just recently regifted something to me that I gave him. I’ll have to start thinking of gifts to give him that I want! :)

  3. Tiffany
    Posted May 20, 2010 at 9:49 am | Permalink

    great idea! I was going to do that for Mother’s Day for my mom last year, but we never committed to writing all of the cards. Great for Curt!

  4. Amy Terry
    Posted May 20, 2010 at 11:50 am | Permalink

    This beats any material gift you could have given… what an awesome idea! I will probably be stealing this idea from you! ; )

  5. Lisa Mahnke
    Posted May 20, 2010 at 12:18 pm | Permalink

    Better than anything you could buy! :)

  6. cyndi
    Posted May 20, 2010 at 2:28 pm | Permalink

    LOVE IT!!!!!

  7. Dawn
    Posted May 20, 2010 at 4:37 pm | Permalink

    seriously. i love this gift! so lovely!

  8. karen
    Posted May 20, 2010 at 9:30 pm | Permalink

    oh my gracious…that is so completely adorable! (love the note!)

  9. katherinemarie
    Posted May 21, 2010 at 6:10 am | Permalink

    The BEST birthday gift EVER! This would be the perfect gift for ANYONE. What a lucky lucky man you have. :)

  10. paula
    Posted May 21, 2010 at 7:39 am | Permalink

    what a sweet and fabulous idea.

  11. LobotoME
    Posted May 21, 2010 at 11:47 am | Permalink

    the best idea ever! happy birthday to your hubby!

  12. alli b
    Posted May 21, 2010 at 2:41 pm | Permalink

    that takes the {birthday} cake. brilliant.

  13. Wendy
    Posted May 31, 2010 at 10:23 am | Permalink

    love, love, love this!

  14. Jenn
    Posted June 1, 2010 at 5:41 pm | Permalink

    Love this idea. Thanks for sharing! I’m linking:

    http://www.mydeliciousambiguity.com/2010/06/diy-fathers-day-gifts.html

    Hope you’ll stop by & say hi!

  15. Stephanie
    Posted June 2, 2010 at 12:06 pm | Permalink

    This is darling! You need to add this to our Fathers Day link party here:
    http://www.somewhatsimple.com/2000/01/fathers-day-ideas.html
    I love it!

  16. sherry
    Posted June 13, 2011 at 8:13 am | Permalink

    I think this would be a great gift for Father’s day, but I am curious as what to write on that many cards…could you please give some examples? Thank you-Sherry

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