[I hope this is the right forum for this question. I couldn't find a better one--which either means it doesn't exist or I didn't look hard enough. :) ]

My mom and stepdad will be celebrating their 25th anniversary at the end of the month. My sister and I have NO idea WTF to get them as an anniversary gift. Therefore, I am throwing myself upon the mercy of OUAL for creative ideas. :lol:

A few important points:

1. They are...ahem...eccentric (or do you have to be really wealthy to be called that? :lol: ). To give you an idea, they live--by choice--in a travel trailer in a small park by a lake in southern Ohio (i.e., no permanent residence). She sends postcards rather than calling unless it's a true emergency (several years ago, she sent me a postcard telling me that my grandma--her mom--had decided to go off dialysis in a few months and probably would die when this happened).

2. They live *very* simply, so typical silver wedding anniversary gifts (i.e., anything silver!) would be lost on them (for example, my mom buys clothes at consignment shops and my stepdad lives in the sweatsuits my sister and I have bought him for EVERY Christmas for the past 16 years. They don't have anything approximating an answering machine. She *just* figured out how to use e-mail at her volunteer library job.).

3. My mom is impossible to buy a gift for. The only gift I've gotten her in the past 10+ years that I am certain she liked/used was a Shutterfly photo book for her 60th birthday and a gift card to Red Lobster (at her request--not my idea. Not that there's anything wrong with that. :heee: ).

If all of this is just too out there to come up with a good idea, I also would love to hear about nice things any of you may have done for your parents. :heee:

For my parent's 25th wedding anniversary, my sister and BIL took them to Cancun for a week. I took them out to dinner.

I have never purchased anything for my parents for their anniversary as I never even really knew when it was until I had long since left home. :lol:

They just celebrated their 45th in April and I didn't know until my Mom told me they might go out for a big lunch for a Costco hotdog and fries. :lol:

In my defense, they should have been divorced for many, many years but now seem to be doing okay. :)

If she likes Red Lobster, I'd say send another GC; you know they'll use it. :)

My parents didn't have professional pictures taken at their wedding. They just had a photo album of snapshots. So, for their 25th, we took the album without them knowing. We blew up all the pictures into 5 by 7's or 8 by 10's (I think, it was a few years ago!) and put them in a really nice album. We took our favorite and put it in a really nice frame. They really liked it!

What about a donation, in their names of course, to a favorite charity? I also like the suggestions above.

You could buy a star in their names for them to wish on. :dunno: