30 things for 30th birthday

I did this for Mr C...

Presents ranged from aftershave, socks, chocolate... to a watch and tickets to Anfield!

I also wrote to 150 celebrities to get personalised autographs and put them in a photobook.

That's a brilliant idea - did you get a good response from the celebrities?

Yes and No!

I got about 25 autographs, 15 were totally personalised.

Others were preprints and the others never replied!

Ed Byrne sent me an email after apologising that he had forgotten and asked for Mr C's number, he rang him backstage from a gig to wish him a happy birthday!!!

Aw cool! I may steal this idea and start a wee project celeb autograph!!

Ok back to the matter in hand..

- Does he have a sport/team? Keep an eye on ebay for memorabila and novelty things relating to it?

- Shares in any particular team he supports

- CD of music from the year he was born/his youth

- Newspaper from day he was born

- Did he have a favourite toy from childhood? You could find one of them on ebay maybe?

- remote control helicopter/car etc.

- water bombs, water pistol? (but then I'm sad like that...)

- Books, CDs, DVDs

- Cinema Tickets

I signed up to a website called MovieEye, it was free to register and people reported success rates...

It took on average 3-6 months for each reply.

Not sure if this will work but this was the final book...

https://www.photobox.co.uk/1xC8C8A7/creation/813084644?cid=puksecs001

I also put his birth year into Ebay... got a soccer annual from that year...

That's brilliant MrsC, it's M's 40th in a couple of years, might try and get some stuff like that for his birthday

OH loves David Beckham - do you think he'd reply?! I may try to get hold of his autograph as a wedding present.

OH loves David Beckham - do you think he'd reply?! I may try to get hold of his autograph as a wedding present.

I did this for my Mr C too, he had an armani watch for his main present, which was labelled number 30 so he opened it last, they all had sparkly number stickers on, to make it a bit more fun so he could look for the next pressie. Other things were a hoodie, aftershave, books, dvds, a photo album of him with a photo of each of the 30 years of his life, mexico football shirt(thats where we honeymooned), the music and lyrics of our first dance song, socks, beer, sweets, etc etc etc, I also had him a cake made with "him" sat on it on his laptop, that was number one, as I brought that up to him in bed with a glass of champagne in the morning!

Brilliant ideas, going to steal most of these, thanks everyone for all your suggestions!

Oh I am so going to write to 'The Rock' and see if he will send a message for OH for the wedding!! He luffs him (sad I know)

I got H 30 gifts for his 30th, including aftershave, clothes and rollerboots he wanted and then lots of little things like choc, sweets, car bits, his fav drink and lots of other little bits. His brother bought him a selection of gifts that had something to do with the year he was born. H's bday is 29th dec so i did well in the sales!

Hey!

What's about road trips? I organized this last year for John and it was wonderful! Select places that are important for you and made a road map with these places! I can also suggest you to read articles like this https://lifeinyour30s.co/30th-birthday-ideas/ . You can also combine 2 or 3 ideas in one big surprise! For example, have about the different events every tag one week before birthday?