100+ Gift Ideas for Mum for ChristmasMum hard to buy for? Here are over 100 ideas for every type of Mum!

Need some thoughtful gift ideas for Mum for all budgets?  Whether it is for Mother’s Day, Christmas, Mum’s birthday or just to say ‘you’re special’, here are our suggestions for all price ranges in mind.

Christmas is one of the biggest Gift Giving days of the year for that special lady in our lives that wiped our butt and boogers, and still rings to check and see if we are okay, even though we are now all grown up.  That lady, she is special.  She is always there for us.  But Mum’s can also be notoriously hard to buy for.  My Mum isn’t really into anything which makes her really hard to shop for, I usually end up getting her flowers and earrings every year which is a bit snoozefest.

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Not this year, I’m going to shop around.  She has had a big year, and I want to thank her for all the times she picked up my kids from school or did my food shopping because I just didn’t have time. Thanks Mum.

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I’ve sorted the gift guide into different categories:

Traditional Style Gifts for Mum:

Buy Mum some beautiful new linen from Bedloves

Bedloves has some great 100% pure flax linen bed sheets and doona covers at reasonable prices if you want to give your mum some understated luxury in the bedroom. These sheets are environmentally and socially sustainable (GOTS) and come with size labels in the bottom right-hand corner and a labeled storage bag so you will never lose a sheet in that linen closet again!

Fluffy Dressing Gown and Slippers

A New Coffee Machine – This Sunbeam Cafe Barista is only $189.00 from Kogan

The Once a Month Cookbook – the best cookbook in the world!

Organise a Cleaner to come and make Mum’s house look AMAZING!

A good pair of Ugg Boots

A beautiful piece of jewelry she will love! We love Eliise Maar!

Silk or Satin Pyjamas – we love these Flamingo Women’s Pyjamas

Book by her favourite Author

Idea: What about a Life Assistant for the Busy Mum!

Give someone the gift of time this Christmas. What better way to show someone how much you care than by getting them time with their very own Life Assistant. Whatever they need, a gift voucher for a little extra help will go a long way to easing the mental load.

A Bunch of flowers (hand-picked is even cheaper!)

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• ‘Elegant Mum’ from Petals Network $79.95

A voucher for new underwear

A set of Mulberry Silk Pillowcases

Buy Mum a Designer Nappy Bag from Nappybags.com

Anything from Kikki K’s Mothers Day Gift Shop

A new handbag or purse

A new Robotic Vacuum (your Mum will THANK you!) Our pick is the iRobot!

A picture frame with a picture of the children

Sewing Machine (grab a good deal from Spotlight)

A subscription to her favorite magazine

A bottle of Scotch or whatever plonk she might drink.

Personalised mug or calendar

Box of chocolate

A Wine Glass Bottle (we love this one from Yellow Octopus)

A Soda Stream Machine

A new coffee mug filled with chocolates

A fancy teacup and teapot

Emjoi Epilator (hair removal device)

Foot spa

A new picnic basket

Bottle of win

Chore vouchers

Fluffy socks

A Snuggie

A Hair Treatment at the hairdresser

A New diary

Fountain pen set and calligraphy classes

Free but Thoughtful Gifts for Mum:

Clean the house for Mum

Painted Hand-prints of the kids in a frame

A framed poem or the words ‘Mummy” written by your little ones

Go to a country market

Historical Walk through a small town

Cemetery walk or ghost tour

Organise a Progressive Dinner with the family.

Have a Board Game Marathon

Organise a fancy Breakfast in Bed

Watch her favourite movie without complaining (supply popcorn and a foot rub)

Salt Dough Gifts from the Kids

Give the Gift of Cookies in a Jar

Cookie in a Jar is a great inexpensive gift idea for Mum!

Things to Do Type Gifts for Mum:

• Buy her a Double pass to the cinema so she can watch any movie she wants!

• Rock N Roll Dancing Lessons

• Have drinks and dinner on a Tall Ship!

• A Beauty voucher for a manicure, pedicure or facial

• A Hair voucher for a Cut and Colour

• A massage voucher

• Organise to swim with the dolphins

• Ballroom Dancing Lessons

• Hot Air Balloon Experience

• Computer lessons (if a wannabe techno savvyMum)

• Go Ten Pin Bowling as a family

• Jewellery Making Workshop

• Book a Bed & Breakfast weekend

• Flying Trapeze Workshop

• Wine Tasting Course

• Invest in an educational Course for Mum

• Tickets to a theatre show

• Enjoy a High Tea

• Drive in the country

• A Ghost Tour of a Jail or Haunted House

• Lunch at the local Pub

• Visit the set of Neighbours – The TV Show

• A trip to the beach

• A trip to the zoo

• Soap Making Course

• Lunch or dinner cruise

• Belly Dancing Lessons

• Weekend on a houseboat

Gift Ideas for the Active and Outdoorsy Mum:

• A beautiful herb growing kit

• Take your Mum SKYDIVING!!!!!!

• Gardening Gloves and Tools

• Do the Sydney Harbour Bridge Climb

• A potted plant in a fancy pot

• Picnic at the local park

  

• Electric Bicycle ride

• A day out on a bike with the family

• A Gurney

• An amazing holiday to Ramayana Resort and Spa in Bali

• Organise a Deep Sea Fishing trip

• Go canoeing or white water rafting

• A GPS watch for hiking

• New Yoga Mat

• Outdoors gear, tops, shorts

• Latest sports shoes

• New sleeping bag or Swag

• Water purifier

• Waterproof/ life proof camera (Go Pro)

• Trendy outdoors rain jacket

• Outdoors hat or cap

• Headlamp/ Headtorch for hiking, camping or riding at night

• Outdoors bag/backpack to pack all accessories for any outdoors activity

Gift Ideas for the Book Loving Mum:

• Check out the most popular novels trending at the moment!

• Cheese Making Books

• A Romance Novel

• Latest Crime or Thriller

• Books on Mind, Body and Spirit

• History or Military Book

• Crossword Puzzle or Suduko Book

• Biography

• New Trendy or homemade Book markers

• Book bag or library bag

• Online Book Discount or library card

• A new Book reading nook

• Relaxing book reading candles

• A Matching Book set

• Meet and Greet with her favourite author

• Take her to a book signing

• Go on an ancient library tour around the city

• Reading pins

• New Stylish Reading Glasses

Gifts Ideas for the Online Shopping Crazy Mum:

• Subscription to shopping sites such as Ozsale, membership means you get great deals all year round (I’m a tad addicted…)

• Book her a seat on a Warehouse Outlet Shopping Day

• Purchase Gift Cards to her favourite shops

• Take her to shopping expos with her favourite items, clothes, make-up ect

• Take her to try out op shopping or vice versa, go to the best designer shops around

• Grab Mum an online voucher.  Here are some great ideas:

Gift Ideas for the Mum that Likes to Travel:

• A new set of luggage

• A pair of silence headphones for the plane.

• A Crossbody Handbag

• Packing Cubes

• Hiking Boots or Good Walking Shoes

• Compression Socks

• Deposit on the Holiday of a Lifetime

Gift Ideas for the Foodie Mum:

• A fancy bottle of Olive Oil (you can get different flavours now too – get a whole set!)

• Chocolate Making Workshop

• A hot cooked champagne breakfast

• A good bottle of wine and a set of wine glasses

• Cookies in a Jar

• Homemade shortbread

• A home cooked baked dinner – by you!

• A chocolate fountain

• A platter of her favourite nibbles like sundried tomatoes, gooey cheese and water crackers

• A wine and cheese appreciation course

• A yoghurt making kit

• A cheese making kit

• A homemade pie (like Lemon Meringue)

• New saucepan set

• Cookbooks

• Gift pack of spices

• Homemade chutneys and fancy butters etc

• Cooking Classes

• New chopping board and knife

• Knife sharpener

• A Juicer

• Food Dehydrator

• Stick Blender

• Ice Cream Maker

• Selection of fancy tea’s and a teacup

• A bench top Pizza Oven

• A Food Vacuum Sealer

• Gourmet cookery classes

• Cheese making course

• Home Delivered Cheese Making Kit

• Electronic kitchen scales

Gift Ideas for the Fashionista Mum:

Some shops that you can buy online or just get her a voucher so she can choose her own!

• The Iconic has a great range, a little on the pricey side, but good if you are off somewhere special.

• Have your Mum Design and Make her own shoes!

• Atomic Cherry has loads of Rockabilly fashion – just beautiful – I buy most of clothing there!

• Crossroads is a discount women’s clothing shop but they now sell online.

• Cotton On Clothing have an online store and if you sign up you get an additional 30% off! Great basic pieces.

• Ebay isn’t just for second-hand clothing – there are loads of great new clothing stores!

• Sussan has a clearance section online!  Great for pj’s and women’s basics.

• Target also has an online clearance section!  I get a tad excited when I see ‘clearance’ on any website!

• Asos are US based but ship great pieces to Australia for very little.  They have a great range of maternity dresses too!

• Zodee are great for swimwear and underwear, not always the cheapest but their sales are terrific.

• Birdsnest comes highly recommend by our Facebook followers.

• ModCloth is a US site but ships worldwide.  Great little dresses and outfits – and they have a terrific review section.  Highly recommend!

• Stop Staring is very glamorous and has some beautiful cocktail dresses fit for any occasion.

• Pin Up Boutique has both cocktail and day to day wear.

• Heartbreaker Fashion has some divine dresses.

Gift Ideas for the Arty or Crafty Mum:

• Scrapbooking, painting, drawing or Twilling classes

• Pottery or ceramics classes

• A new Sewing Machine

• Dressmaking Dummy

• Set of paints and canvasses

• Drawing or Painting Lessons

• Gift vouchers for an art supplier

• Do an ‘Art Experience’ tour

• Trendy Arts carry bag

• Useful canvas easel

• A new camera

• Adult colouring or drawing book

• Sewing needles and threads

• Needle pointing tools

• New Glue gun or crafts tools

• Crafts Storage cases, jars, shelving

• Gift cards to mums favourite crafts or art stores

Gift Ideas for the Tech and Computer Savvy Mum:

• A Kindle

• The latest Ebook

• New Headphones or Earphones

• A Tile Dongle that will help you find your keys or bag if you have lost them

• Latest trendy Laptop Case for all her gadgets

• Cable case to store charges and other cables

• Fitbit or Apple watch

• New keyboard or iPad keyboard case

• A wrist held phone case or new design case

• An iPad stand

• Wall mount shelf for devices

  
  
  

• A smart camera

• Smart Bracelet

• A high-tech alarm clock

• Multiple device charger

• New tech coffee machine

• Storage or USB, SD cards

• Touch Screen Monitor

• Coloured Wireless Mouse

• Laptop Pillow (with fan)

• Star Wars USB

• Hard Drive to keep all the latest TV shows

• Subscription for Pay TV

• New Mobile Phone

Gift Ideas for the Fit and Healthy Mum:

• Personal training session

• Treadmill

• Exercise Bike

• Book an overseas holiday of a lifetime (with 70% off)

• Skipping Rope

• Zumba Classes

• Pilates DVD

• New Yoga Mat

• Beautiful fitness wear (I love Lululemon and Lorna Jane!)

• Kayaking weekend

• New Running Shoes

• Weights or Kettle Bells

• Heart Rate Monitor

• Pedometer

• Book or Subscription to the Michelle Bridges 12WBT

• Subscription to Weight Watchers (only if she REQUESTS that!!!)

The Home Body Mum:

• Gift Voucher from Freedom Furniture

• A DNA Test from Ancestry.com 

Beauty and Pampering Ideas:

• • • New make-up (We love Nude by Nature!)

    • A new hair straightener 

    • A Hair Curler or Set of Hot Curlers

    • New Hair Dryer

    • Fancy new Hand Cream

    • Hair Extensions

    • Fancy shower cap

    • A new Mud Mask

    • Make-up Lessons

    • Home Spray Tanning Machine

    • Bottle of good Extra Virgin Coconut Oil to slather on body and hair

    • Gel Nail Kit with light

    • New Skin Care Kit

    • Gift Voucher for Microdermabrasion from your local beauty salon

    • Eyelash extensions

    • Perfume or Body Wash

    • Teeth whitening kit

    • An essential oil kit with oil burner

Gift Ideas for the Mum that is hard to buy for.

• A new jumper or coat

• A Magazine Subscription

• A subscription to a Family Tree Website to find out about the family history.

• An automatic card shuffler and a few packs of new cards

• A fresh fruit or vegetable basket

• New sheets for the bed (go the 1000 thread count!)

• A new Doona cover and fancy pillows

• A new pillow

• Set of earrings

• Shoe Cleaning Kit

• A Milliners Course with High Tea

• A Steam Press

• Car Cleaning Kit

• Set of pearls – all girls love pearls!

• Photography Course

• A wine fridge

• New Car Seat Covers

These are 100 Gifts Ideas for Mum – do you have any to add???