Your Mum’s 50th Birthday Gift Ideas

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Mums are brilliant – a fact that often goes without saying, but still bears repeating. Still, that doesn’t make them any easier to buy presents for, even when it comes to big birthdays like their 50th. Where should you start in buying gifts 50th birthday gift ideas for your mum? 

Often, the best gift you can give a parent is your time and presence; in truth, your mum will be utterly overjoyed for an opportunity to spend some quality time with you, whatever the occasion or experience. Still, there are some particularly amazing experiences and gifts you can share with your mum, if you choose carefully enough! 

Whatever gift experience or event you choose, it likely won’t be taking place on the exact date of your mum’s birth. Rather, you’re promising a shared experience in the future. Whatever you choose as a gift, presentation is key. When looking for 50th birthday gift ideas, try bundling the tickets or schedule for the gift you have in mind in your mum’s 50th birthday card, to make sure she knows you care! 

With that said, here are some of the best experience-based gift ideas for a mum on her 50th, to give you some starting inspiration:

50th Birthday Experiences

Tickets to a Concert

Your first port of call for any birthday experience will likely be a gig or concert. If the two of you share a favourite artist, getting a couple of tickets to their next show in your area is something of a no-brainer; you get to share your passion in a live setting! 

If you simply have similar tastes, you might be able to take her along to something new and surprising – making for an evening of fun and discovery. Whether you stump for a night at the opera or a night in the mosh-pit, it’s the doing-it-together that counts.

Joint Classes

If music doesn’t quite appeal as an ideal 50th birthday gift, you could instead opt to enrol yourself and your mum in for a series of classes. Cooking and life drawing are common and popular forms of class for family to take together, but there is a whole variety of night classes and group activities you could sign up for together.

If your mum has always wanted to try her hand at a physical craft, there are hobbyist classes relating to carpentry and sculpture you could attend. Alternatively, you could resolve to learn a whole new language together!

A Trip Away

Of course, for a gift that will really bowl your mum over, there is nothing better than a surprise holiday or 50th birthday day out. Whisking your mum away for a long weekend city break or rural retreat can enable you both to spend some real quality time together, while enjoying the best of a place your mum has always wanted to visit. You could surprise here with a countryside holiday let, or go all-in on a luxury urban break in a European city of her choice.