Does it mean more to you to get a homemade gift or a store bought gift?

I love getting homemade gifts from my boys! It is the most specialist thing ever to me! I get sooo happy and teary eyed. LOL

i like homemade gifts more. my husband i have noticed saves them more too. like my kids did hand prints for him and i wrote down a little poem i had found on the paper and he keeps that in his desk. yet they buy him something and he uses it and loses it or just forgets about it. when i buy him something he says thank you and he uses it but he doesnt get that look. and alot of times in a few years he cant remeber where he got it from lol. if i do something though he remebers. like making a nice dinner putting kids to bed early and it just being us. or going to the lake and doing a picnic just the two of us. like last time i sent him to do some late night shopping saying i just had to have stuff and forgot. i had made him a cake and gave him a pair of new pants and the kids gave him his stuff then sent him on. i had fed the kids early and told him oh i thought you ate while you were out fishing lol. when he got back i had the backyard set up with a nice dinner and the swimming pool cover off. you could tell he liked that more then the pants lol. granted he wears the pants all the time but you could tell by the way he acted he liked me going out of my way to do something just for him better.

I'd prefer gifts that are made by yourself because for me,it shows that you truly made an effort.I don't care about the way that it's presented.It's the thought that counts.

There's a familiar expression or cliche associated with gift-giving & I guess it's true; "It is the thought that really counts." It's really sweet of you, if I may say myself, to prepare a real banquet for your husband. I am very sure that it will be greatly appreciated, especially that it is a labor of love that you're planning. I guess he is a great provider and a responsible father, too. Advance happy birthday to your husband and may both of you be blessed with a happy and fruitful marriage.

I like both. I'm easy to please. But I think what you and the kids did for your husband is very very nice. I would be so happy if someone did all that for me. I'll bet he really enjoyed that. The kids useto make us breakfast in bed, LOl We would wait listening to them in the kitchen cooking. We learned to love scrambled eggs with burned black spots on them. LOL They are some of our best memories.

I agree, the home made gift is better than a store bought one. It shows the time and effort used in making the gift rather than the time it took to go to the store. It's also very unique as if you buy from a store, there are more than one of those items at the store but if you make it at home, there is only one.

I'd appreciate homemade over store bought any day. Homemade says this person took the time to do something special just with you in mind. It doesn't matter what it is, it's made with that extra dose of love! Even if it's just a quick phone call, a text message, or a plate of cookies wrapped in a napkin, it's appreciated. I think lots of times too many people put too much emphasis on how much money the giver has spent, that part's irrelevant, it IS the thought that counts!

Homemade things are always very precious..

Well, the question is whether your husband is going to appreciate it. Based on my experience, he will. Daddy at our house always saved the cards the kids made, and you can help them with some great ideas. It is a good experience. I am the MOM/wife/grandma. Any remembrance is great. I would rather have a home cooked meal than to go out to eat. My husband is an excellent cook. I think I will forward this to him, as my birthday is in August, too.

I think its a great idea to give a homemade gift. I think it makes the gift more special. My son is 22 and I still have gifts he made me when he was in kindergarten. Now I am getting things from my grandchildren. Your husband is a very lucky man to have such a thoughtful wife and kids. I am sure he will love what you do for him.

It all depends. Sometimes a person loves a homemade gift and something you made. In other cases, that person might have wanted to get a drill or something from the hardware store. I would go with a gift certificate for his favorite store. Where does he always shop? That idea of love behind the gift was probably thought about by the gift giver not the receiver. The receiver said oh so nice because he did not want to hurt your feelings. Get him a gift certificate for Home Depot or his favorite restaurant, the kids can combine their allowances and bake him a special dinner. Besides haven't you made his favorite dinner and dessert before and not on his birthday? You have to do something you have not done before that he wanted.

I think that Homemade gifts are the way to go! The time and effort to go that extra mile seems more meaningful compared to taking the easy way and just buying a gift that takes mins to do. Beside doing this with your kids with only give you the special memories you created together for a very special day "Daddy's/Hubby's B-day) Best of Luck Stacy

When my brothers and I were that age, we got together and made a wall hanging for our grandmother. We drew chalk pictures on a white towel and made funny designs. She seemed to enjoy the gift so much more than anything we had ever bought for her. And, the next year we purchased a small fridge magnet that said, "Best Grandma in the Universe" and that thing hung on her fridge door until the day she passed away twenty years later. Sometimes it's the small sentimental things that touches a person's heart the most. Those little homemade gifts and sentimental trinkets stay around years after the big expensive ones have all been consigned to the back of the closet. I am sure that your spouse will love any gift that your kids make. Then again, I'm sure that everyday he spends with you and the kids is a gift unto itself. Ask him and I'm sure he'd tell you the same. Be well and best of luck with the upcoming birthday.

I love homemade gifts from my children. I am more apt to save them. I had a "memory box for each of my girls that I filled over the years with gifts they made, drawings and little written memories. Before each of them moved out, I put them all together in a scrap book and the things that could not be put in a scrap book were kept in the box and labled. some of these things were hard for me to part with and so I scanned them and put them on disc.

the thoughts that count, even just a text message greeting me for birthday is enough. homemade or store bought gift that comes from the heart and spend time to doing it (homemade) and looking for it (store bought).

I very much appreciate thoughtful gifts & what was paid for it (or not paid for it) is irrelevant to me. Especially coming from kids, I still have nearly every macaroni necklace, clay pot & decorated T-shirt my kids ever made but I'd be hard pressed to remember some of the more expensive gifts I've been given over the years.

Homemade gifts are more meaningful to me than ready made gift. It is when doing homemade gifts that you can really express yourself in the way you want to make the gift more meaningful and memorable. Express yourselves, you know about the likes of your loved one, so why not personize it just for him. Be creative and you'll see he will appreciate it most.