Gifts to bring to an office in Ukraine from the US? [more inside]
posted by phoenixy on Aug 2, 2009 - 5 answers

My partner is about to go backpacking meditating in India for over a month. I'll be missing his birthday--what useful, light gift(s) can I get him in the $50 range? [more inside]
posted by stray on Jun 10, 2009 - 18 answers

What gift should I bring to a 4-year-old half American, half-French girl living in Paris? [more inside]
posted by santojulieta on Mar 18, 2009 - 14 answers

What would YOU buy if YOU were traveling to China? [more inside]
posted by monkeymadness on Jan 31, 2009 - 26 answers

I always like it when men pick women up from the airport holding a bouquet of flowers for them, and I'd like to do something similar for my boyfriend... but get him something a little more masculine. Help? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Nov 17, 2008 - 36 answers

Help us wow our mother for her 60th birthday in November. She loves natural beauty, travel, her granddaughter, watching music and dance, massages, and antique/carpet/porcelin/etc. shopping on the cheap. I'm in NY, my siblings are in TX, and she's in Los Angeles. We want to make this special, and might consider travel, but we only have three days. Suggestions?
posted by shivohum on Sep 12, 2008 - 3 answers

How do you repay someone who has made your past 1+ year so nice and easy? My specific information inside... [more inside]
posted by jwfree on Jul 10, 2008 - 20 answers

Going to be in New Orleans for the next 36 hours. Please recommend to me unique NOLA gifts I can bring back home to my friends and colleagues! [more inside]
posted by melorama on Apr 8, 2008 - 29 answers

Symbolic academic gifts for visiting scholar? [more inside]
posted by k8t on Mar 3, 2008 - 6 answers

I'm looking for ideas for things to give my daughter before I go away for 3 weeks. [more inside]
posted by valleys on Feb 11, 2008 - 26 answers

I need a cute catchphrase for a gift I'm giving. [more inside]
posted by thebrokedown on Jan 6, 2008 - 5 answers

Broke-ass Americans taking a trip to India-- what to give as gifts to our hosts? (2007 update on someone else's AskMe question from 2005) [more inside]
posted by Rykey on Dec 16, 2007 - 8 answers

Help me get important, perishable gifts home through 18 hours of plane flights! (Cream/Cake thing, Chocolate truffle thing, and hard-cider-like thing!) [more inside]
posted by anonymoose on Oct 24, 2007 - 16 answers

What are good gifts from the US for German teenagers? [more inside]
posted by TochterAusElysium on Jun 5, 2007 - 30 answers

I need creative souvenir ideas. [more inside]
posted by BradNelson on Mar 23, 2007 - 20 answers

I'm looking for a gift to get somebody who's really interested in death. [more inside] [more inside]
posted by pinto on May 30, 2006 - 26 answers

My friend is traveling to Switzerland for a week and asked if I wanted anything from there. What is something that is uniquely Swiss that I can't readily get myself, and wouldn't be a hassle to take through customs?
posted by ding3r on Jan 3, 2006 - 18 answers

Help me find a travel gift for my mother, who's about to head off to Europe. [more inside]
posted by tomble on Aug 14, 2005 - 15 answers

Hypothetical: You're abroad, temporarily resident in the home of strangers. Not a vacation. The shelter was voluntarily offered at no cost. You are vastly rich by comparison to your host/hostess. But you know they will refuse any money you give them, no matter what--it's not a coy negotiation technique. Gifts of baubles and luxuries aren't needed so much as basics. You can give the children sweets, but if you do anything more appropriate, such as buy meat for the household or pay to have the well pump fixed, your hosts will truly be insulted. Yet, you cannot leave without doing something: your religion/conscience/mother/employer requires it, and you might be back. There are no "oh, s/he's a foreigner" excuses. How do you monetarily or otherwise successfully compensate your hosts so everyone retains honor?
posted by Mo Nickels on Dec 16, 2004 - 26 answers

GiftFilter: My mother will be traveling to Honduras after Christmas as part of a medical mission. She’ll be working in extremely remote areas. I’d like to get her something for Christmas that would be useful for the trip. [mi] [more inside]
posted by bibliowench on Dec 14, 2004 - 15 answers