I bought my husband 40 presents for his 40th birthday, people think I’m mad and have gone too far but I don’t care
BUYING presents for your other half can be a challenge – but one woman has come up with the idea to honour her husband’s 40th birthday in a huge way.
It can be difficult to get the gifts just right for your partner, especially when they’re not vocal about what they’d like to receive.
One woman certainly didn’t have any difficult in picking up presents for her husband leading her to spark frenzy in a post on MumsNet.
Poster @The6thQueen revealed her other half is soon turning 40 and she has bought him 40 gifts to present to him on the big day.
She said: “Husband’s 40th soon. I’ve gone with the 40 presents idea, know what I’m buying him, but no idea how to ‘present’ them!
“40 days of gifts sounds like the novelty will quickly run out, 40 presents in one go sounds overwhelming. I don’t think he’d like a gift hunt,” she shared.
While some posters offered up tips, others weren’t sure about the idea in the first place and called it “wasteful” and “overwhelming”.
One asked: “Can’t you just get him one nice thing?”
Another wrote: “Does he need 40 things, these kind of presents seem awfully wasteful to me.
“If you think doing it gradually will be boring and doing it all at once will be overwhelming I honestly don’t know what anyone could suggest.
“Other than buying him a non-overwhelming number of presents instead,” said a critic.
She soon clarified she wasn’t actually looking for advice on what gifts to buy and didn’t care for the negative comments.
“I have the 40 gifts; he’ll love all of them, don’t need help with that.
“I’m after ideas of how to give them, generally to see how others have done it,” she said.
Luckily, she did get some more helpful comments from people who’d tried out similar ideas with their partners themselves.
One person shared: “I did this for my husband’s 30th and it was so nice. I wrapped all and placed it on our sofa – it was overwhelming but I put the smaller presents at the front like socks etc and then I brought two big presents that I kept till the end behind all the smaller ones.”
A poster said: “I’ve seen quite a lot of people do this on TikTok on they seem to give one a day in the run up to the birthday so I’ve a present a day for 40 days.
“To make it so the novelty doesn’t wear off you can get number then and then get him to pull a number out of a hat and that’s the one he gets that day? I think this sounds like a nice idea
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Someone else who’d tried it out said: “When I did this for my partners 40th, I bought a giant gift bag and put the majority in that and left a few of the bigger items out.”
Another user suggested: “Some at breakfast, some interspersed throughout the day, some near bedtime?”
Other ideas from posters included a raffle, an advent calendar-style countdown and a hamper.
She concluded: “DH knows about the gifts, it’s not a secret. He’s thoroughly happy with the idea; preferred it in fact, as he doesn’t need or want anything big, but would rather have small useful/meaningful gifts.
“It’s not about me – it’s about making him feel special and cherished after a truly, truly shitty few years for him.
“Does that make everyone feel better; it’s not about me, I’m not killing the planet, it’s not consumerism, nor is it for social media (we’re not on it)?”