People over 35 tend to prefer experiences over material stuff unless it's a fun new sports car. A few ideas:
- A rocky Mountain or European guided hiking trip. All sorts of good ones for all levels of fitness on the internet.
- A charitable donation to something good, in their name.
- 7 weeks of 3 day/week sessions with a trainer at a local gym. That's enough time to get the fundamentals of calis and weights, so the spouse can do it on his or her own daily, afterwards. Make sure trainer knows enough about nutrition to handle either muscle-toning or fat loss/weight gain, and is not a musclehead. A skinny friend gained 13 rock-hard lbs from lifting over 10 months.
- 6 months of weekly T injections for the male spouse. It might make the female spouse happier in an animal sense, and the male spouse stronger.
- Tickets for the NYC Ballet always makes the female spouse happy. Happy wife, happy life. If remote, grab a hotel room. Fun. Just not the darn Nutcracker.
- A firearms class of any sort, whether for handgun permit, clays, whatever. Good fun. Guns are fun for guys and gals. My girls get a kick out of shooting (but this year they need/want more musical instruments). I heartily approve of home-made music. Ability without talent is good enough to make a house a home. Mrs. BD and my daughters have ability. My son, not so much it seems, to his sorrow. Vocally, all of us are zeros but that's what instruments are for. Just takes brains.
- Give a gift of a year of Maggie's Farm. It's free, all it takes is the gift of a link to us.
