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Question: Hello Sally, I want to buy an unusual birthday gift for my dad. Any ideas?

Answer: It seems that as years go by thinking of gift ideas for birthdays and holidays gets to be more and more of a challenge. For us the most difficult idea is to find an unusual birthday gift for my husbands dad.
 

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Toms dad had worked very hard his entire life. He worked a full time factory job as well as farmed on the side. This did not leave any extra time for developing any hobbies. When he retired from his job and rented out the farm land he did not know what to do with his time. Toms mother was excited that he was going to have time; however it is not easy to develop hobbies for the first time when you are sixty five.

When he was close to retirement Tom asked his mother for ideas for unusual birthday gifts for his dad. She said that we should look for some type of hobby for him to get into. I called one of my sisters and we agreed that we would go to a local hobby shop together to see if we could find a birthday present for Toms dad. There were many interesting hobbies in the shop, but none of them seemed to fit Toms dad’s interest or personality. My sister thought that he might enjoy putting together models. They did have models of tractors and farm equipment, but I just could not picture Toms dad sitting and gluing these pieces together. They had a set of whittling tools that were used to carve things out of wood. Toms dad had whittled willow tree whistles for him and his brother when they were kids, so we thought maybe he would do this. We decided that the whittling tools would be our unusual birthday gift for Toms dad. The man at the hobby shop suggested buying some nice pieces of wood for him to start with. He also showed us a book of patterns that could be used for ideas.

On the day of his birthday we had a barbeque at Toms parent’s house. I had wrapped the unusual birthday gift for Toms dad so I carried it in and set it by the cake my mother in law had made. She immediately asked what we bought. She is worse than a child when it comes to surprises, she cannot stand not knowing what is in a gift. My sister and I told her that she would have to wait to see. Toms dad gave us a wink because he knew that he would be able to open his unusual birthday gifts sooner if wife did not know what was in them. He was right my mother in law decided that  he should open one of his presents before we ate our picnic dinner. Toms dad has always loved to tease my mum in law, so he said he would open the gift that she gave him. This prompted her to have him open all of his gifts. He was very excited about the whittling tools. He cut a willow branch and made the grandchildren willow whistles. Tom and I agreed that our unusual birthday gift for his dad was a great idea.
 

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