What Gifts Did You Give for Mother’s Day?

This past weekend was a big weekend for us – my dad turned 50 and we celebrated Mother’s Day. This took lots of planning on my part to make sure we bought perfect gifts for each occasion. Both of my grandmothers are still alive, and they were the hardest to buy for. Ultimately I decided on a pretty unique gift for one of my grandmother’s that I’m quite proud of so I thought I would share it with you guys – a new cell phone. This was not just any cell phone though, it was a very special phone designed for our older citizens.

My grandmother has been using a prepaid cell phone for the longest, but even after having the same phone for a year, she has learned to do nothing on it. When she first purchased the phone, I took a long time and programmed all of our family’s phone numbers in it, and do you think she knows how to use it? No she doesn’t. She still just dials the numbers like we do our house phones. Last week, she wanted to call my Dad, but couldn’t remember his cell phone number (which by the way is programmed into his phone) so what did she do? She pulled over, dug out a piece of paper and a pen, and called me to find out what his number was. After reviewing this company on another blog, I realized that it would make a great gift for my grandmother. After this phone call last week, I decided yes, she needed a Jitterbug phone.

What’s so great about this phone? Well first off the entire company’s focus is phone for the elderly. The best feature is that instead of programming people’s numbers into the phone, you program them with the company and then the user (my grandmother) can just call the operator (who is available 24 hours a day) and tell them who she wants to talk to. The operator will connect her to that person. She doesn’t have to use the phone or try to memorize new phone numbers.  If she does choose to use the phone more like a regular phone, the buttons are larger and the screen display is in a larger font.

Did you come up with any great/unique gifts? I’d love to hear about them.

This is the one I bought her: