Everyone welcome to the gift buying season, except you guys who wait until Christmas Eve (you know who you are).
After consulting with my good friend DRY, [the following added per DRY’s suggestion] “who, if I weren’t already married to the most wonderful husband, I’d be deeply in love with. All you single ladies shouldn’t pass up the chance to be put under the most pleasureable ‘DRY spell’ imaginable!,” he agrees that the imaginative, outrageous Teeming Millions would be the best place to go for help in a gift giving idea for Mr. Golf.
I know that no one here knows him, with the exception of Michi/Cyndar who met him for all of 2 minutes several months ago, but if I give you a little background on him, someone here is bound to come up with something great.
Mr. Golf is 53 years old and as you can tell by my screen name, spends every free, waking moment on a golf course, travelling and playing in amatuer tournaments waiting for the day he’ll turn 55 and qualify for the Seniors Pro Tour. He has been playing for years and is a scratch player so suggestions as to buying him golf lessons would be a waste of his time and my money. Golf prints, knick-knacks, framed newspaper articles and such are a major theme throughout the house so I’m trying to stay away from anything like that.
Mr. Golf is also an accomplished pilot; I had the idea to have a model replica of his plane made by a guy in Key West but Mr. Golf recently sold his plane and is in the process of looking for a new one, so there goes that idea. Last year I bought him a flight simulator and all the hardware for his computer and I have to say it collects dust nicely.
I am open to any and all suggestions and please feel free to ask further questions to get a feel for what he would like.
You never know, you may find your own gift idea right here.
GolfWidow, are you my mother? 'Cause your husband sure sounds like my dad!
What’s wrong with the replica anyway? If he didn’t end up hating the plane when he got rid of it the model would be a nice memory-piece. Do you have any photos of him with the plane? How about getting one blown up and framed nicely?
How about a Swiss Army knife with golf accessories (cleat wrench, etc.)?
If so, I found a cool portable CD player/alarm clock in The Sharper Image. I think they have several colors. It sure beats sitting in a hotel room waking up to that “buzz buzz, annoying buzz” of hotel room clocks.
Really for any fun travel accessories, I have found The Shaper Image and Hammeler Shlemmer (sp and name?) have some cool and funky items for people who like gadgets and travel.
You beat me to it Suo Na, however, there remains the Swiss Army pocket tool. This one makes all of the others pale in comparison (why yes, I do happen to own one). If your hubby flies, you would want him to travel with one of these at all times.
How about scheduling a round with the local pro at the golf course. Something autographed by Tiger? The guy is the bee’s knees (as is your hubby, I’m sure).
GW, I wish I could help you but I am terrible with gifts.
Of course, since I am single, and poor, I don’t have to worry too much about my own gift giving this year.
::Ponders her sad state of affairs::
Damn, I hate the holidays.
First of all, I’d like to say that the parenthetical comment about me looked a lot better WITHOUT your editorial, thank you very much!!
The suggestions here are GREAT—much better than the pathetic ideas I came up with. (Though I should mention that Mr. Golf actually knows professional golfers, so he’s not as likely to be wowed by something signed by Tiger Woods as the rest of us might. And he probably could give golf pros some lessons himself.)
I particularly like Techchick’s ideas re The Shaper Image and Hammeler Shlemmer! I really should have thought of that myself.
Oh, and GolfWidow? Your husband’s a lucky man–in more ways than one! I’m sure you’ll find the perfect gift for him.
You guys have some wonderful ideas so far; keep them coming.
Techie, funny you should mention a travel alarm from Hammacher Schlemmer; I just got my new catalog in the mail yesterday. I’m really torn between “The World’s Most Accurate Travel Alarm Clock” for $39.95 or someting totally useless like the “The Only Aquatic Pod Suite” for the bargain price of $91,100.00. Do people actually buy stuff like an aquatic pod suite?
For those of you who don’t have the catalog, this is a 150 square foot circular “flying saucer” that you put in the water and the lower portion is submerged five feet into the water so you can have a 300 degree view of the environment; comes with central air conditioning, mini-bar, Bose audio/video system, king size bed, toilet and shower and outside a floating terrace circumscribes the unit for sun bathing and hanging out. Hhhmmm, I wonder if it would fit in my pool?
