Your Father's Day Gift Ideas
Crowdsourcing time!
Father’s Day is just around the corner, and I don’t know about you, but I perpetually struggle to find good gifts for my partner — not least because so many dad-themed gifts seem designed to celebrate grossness, laziness or incompetence.
I imagine I’m not alone in struggling to find good gifts, so I thought it would be fun today to crowdsource. What have you given the men in your life in recent years that they’ve enjoyed? Here are few gift ideas, most of which are things my husband and dad have recently liked:
A historic map from this Etsy store
Any kind of cheese gift from Zingerman’s
The book Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are by Rebecca Boyle
Pretty much anything from Goldbelly
These hilarious golf sandals my friend found
What gifts do you recommend? Please share your ideas in the comments — and if you’re a dad, please share any gifts you’ve recently gotten and loved or would be excited to get!
I am ALWAYS stumped by Fathers’ Day. There are four dads in my life (mine, my step-dad, my kids’ dad, his dad) and none of them really care about gifts or fit the classic golf/grilling dad stereotypes. I also have plenty of angry feminist feelings about the way this holiday leans into the stereotypes and tropes that enable dads to do less domestic work than moms. This year, I think I solved it: I’m making a donation to a charity that supports marginalized women on all of their behalf. Currently debating between one of the Gaza aid orgs (which I did for Mothers’ Day), National Network of Abortion Funds, or the National Domestic Workers Alliance, which fights for rights of house cleaners, nannies and other care workers. Or maybe I just solved my next THREE Fathers’ Days?! Will probably never buy another tie…
I am making a video of our 2 year old saying all the things she loves about her dad. I am making one for my father, from his kids, as well. Easy to do in about 30 minutes total and they can keep it on their phones or a digital frame forever.