When his special day is imminent, your motivation for finding a gift that signifies your deep feelings of respect, admiration, commitment, and love, is fierce. Men are not always demonstrative about material possessions. Finding the perfect memory-making gift, that reflects a knowledge of his passions, interests, personal preferences, and your shared memories, is do-able, but complicated in good ways.
What He May Pretend, but What He Actually Wants
This celebration of his birthday deserves focus, and yes, deep thought. What are his passions, hobbies, and down-time activities? Is he an avid golfer, gamer, techie, intellectual, chef, fitness guru, adventurer, wine aficionado, or some odd combination of numerous stimulating interests?
Whatever defines him, through your caring eyes, is a great starting point to find something substantive, that will inspire joy, deepen the relationship, and evoke special memories. Contemplate this curated list of gifts which are unique, appealing, and endearing, to find something that connects positively, and emotionally with his idea of unexpected joy.
Birthday Gifts – To Celebrate “Him”
1 A Masterclass All Access Pass or Annual Membership – Inspire and encourage him to pursue his interests, passions, and avocations with a Master Class membership, through video lectures, and incredibly well filmed demonstrations. These classes offer him the opportunity to engage his thinking skills, while learning from the absolute best, A-List instructors, on numerous subjects from:
- Basketball, tennis, golf, and other sports, taught by pros like Serena Williams, and John McEnroe, or Wimbledon coach Marc Codling.
- Photography techniques, and creating quality videos to capture life’s memorable moments, mentored by award winning author and photographer Annie Leibovitz.
- Cooking delicious restaurant style foods, meats, sauces, or exotic foods of other cultures, with chefs Gordon Ramsey, Yotam Ottolenghi, Wolfgang Puck, or Alice Waters. Yotam teaches how to create deli-foods, the British/Israeli way. Many men love to learn new cooking techniques, and then creating their own tasty versions of foods the whole family will love and share for years.
- Learning Japanese, Spanish, or native languages of the places he wants to visit, and frequent, with family and friends, often, in his lifetime.
- Screen writing taught by Academy Award winning screen writer Aaron Sorkin. He will learn at his own pace, and get the skill sets for writing his life’s story, or the great saga of couple’s life, and more.
There are a multitude of classes on a varied number of subjects like science, meditation, working out, communication, tech savvy skills, and even the art of comedy, taught by Steve Martin. This gift could be life changing for him, you, and the whole family.
2 Birthday Gift Baskets – Personalized for Him – Men like receiving gifts that celebrate their lives, and allow them to feel loved, and worthy of adoration. Birthday gift baskets for him, filled with his favorite, palate pleasing, dark and white chocolates, rich caramels, fruits, nuts, and cookies, demonstrates your loving knowledge of his taste bud cravings. If his palate is sensitive to distinct flavors, and he appreciates fine wine, there are a number of excellent wine offerings that he will savor.
Choose from:
- A Blissful Birthday Wine Gift Basket – filled with a decadent Merlot, surrounded by luscious, sweet chocolate truffles, pirouline wafers, soft vanilla caramels, cashew Rocca butter crunch, gourmet caramel popcorn, and butter toffee mixed nuts.
- “Happy Birthday” Engraved Wine Bottle – containing his favorite, dry red wine, with special wrappings, encased in a mahogany wood wine box, perfect for a true connoisseur. Personalized with an engraved message you choose, this presentation, just for him, offers all the “feels” of a special occasion, and a memory making moment. The three lines offered for this text, can showcase how much your “him” means to you. This event will be treasured for years to come.
- Birthday Bakery Basket – If your “him” feels that a balanced life only happens with a cookie in each hand, a bakery basket of gourmet cookies is a perfect pairing for your giftee, on his special day. He will devour chocolate ganache, and peanut butter fudge brownies, chocolate chunk blondies, mint chocolate chip, and ginger molasses cookies, and more. These treats will be wrapped, and nestled into a beautiful basket, which will be repurposed in many ways, in the future. The basket will remind him of the time his cookie cravings were ravenously sated, with guilt-free enthusiasm.
A basket filled with delicious treats is a symbol of loving, well-being for the giftee.
3 Framed Audio Sunglasses – Does your “him” love outdoor connectivity? Bluetooth sunglasses, with integrated microphones, and speakers, will allow hands free, and ears unblocked, listening, to enjoy his playlists, without others hearing. His innovative sunglasses can activate his smart phone to make calls, and interact with Siri and Alexa, when needed. This techie will love the headphones being placed within the frames. The lenses are polarized, scratch resistant, and block 99% of UVA/UVB rays. How open-eared and high tech, can this birthday boy get?
4 Collegiate Wall Map Sculpture – If college brought you together, or it was a highlight in his life, and the memories are incredibly special, relive them again. A handmade, birch plywood, detailed, map of the stadium, at his school, raised to look 3D, and surround by actual, existing, neighborhoods of 14 colleges, is available. The wood is sculptural, unstained, natural, and is framed in aluminum, to mix well with any décor. It will remind him of old glory days, continuously. It is a keepsake he will cherish.
5 Choose an Adventure Experience Gift – This year consider giving him an adventure experience. He might want to learn to:
- Sail or wind surf
- Scuba dive
- Zipline
- Stand-up-paddleboard
- Become a pilot
- Drive a race car
- Learn to cook with a wok, or air fryer
- See a special sporting event like the PGA golf tournament
- Attend a concert with his favorite band
- Sit in the front row of a professional hockey game
Any of these life-affirming activities, would be a highlight to look forward to, and fully engage in, this year. Adventure experience gifts offer excited anticipation, and the rare opportunity to push the boundaries of your human interactions, and comfort zone, for personal growth.
For the One Who Does the Gifting
When you give a gift to him, it comes from a thoughtful place within yourself, as an expression of true emotion, and your best intentions. You don’t have to over-spend, mesmerize, or overwhelm him. You could simply give him a unique and personalized gift containing a special meaning. When you gift him, the message sent decries that his happiness is crucial and essential to your own.
