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Gift Idea Needed for My Dad and Stepmom..

I am trying to come up with a gift idea for them, and I am drawling a blank. Last year we got them concert tix and they loved it! This year my dad just got a new job out of state, and so they will be apart for a few months until they eventually move there together. So I was thinking something they could use long distance maybe. My dh and I were long distance for 3.5 years, but that was when we could have used calling cards.. now you have cell phones, or stamps for sending packages. Anyway, do you girls have any suggestions? They love playing games like cards, they are big into music especially the piano. Thanks girls!

Re: Gift Idea Needed for My Dad and Stepmom..

  • Are they tech capable?  What about web cams to actually see each other while they talk for the months they are apart?
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    Are they tech capable?  What about web cams to actually see each other while they talk for the months they are apart?

    That's what I was thinking too.  

    Or, maybe you could do a restaurant gift certificate and 1 night hotel stay somewhere halfway between their two towns.

  • If they are techie, the webcams are a perfect idea. I haven't used Yahoo! messenger in a long time, but if it's like it used to be, they can use the webcams while playing games together on Yahoo! messenger.

    If they aren't techie, a hotel stay and a gift certificate for dinner or a moive/play would be awesome. It doesn't have to be somewhere halfway either because then both of them will have to pay for airfare or gasoline, which will cost more than just one of them traveling.

  • The pp have excellent ideas.  I also suggest something like Netflix, which allows people in separate places to have a movie "party" and watch the same thing at the same time.  They could have movie dates, even far apart.  There are also computer and video games that have similar "linking" features.  (Not a gift idea, but I used to play online spades with my lonely, out-of-state MIL.) 
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  • all good ideas.. :) thanks girls. i have a ? about the netflix though.. we have blockbuster, so i don't really know about netflix. anyway, can they watch the same movie at the same time different place, on 1 membership, or would they both have to have a membership? maybe stupid ?, but....
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