Stefanie Preissner’s Father’s Day Gift Guide
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What unique gift ideas does Stefanie Preissner suggest for Father's Day?
Now, Father's Day is next weekend, apparently, and writer Stephanie Freisner is back with one of what are becoming, it has to be said, her legendary gift guides. Welcome, Stephanie.
Thank you. I'm so excited because I just have a shopping addiction, so this just makes it more legitimate or something.
Yeah, no, you're good at this because it's real for you. I can tell, it's very authentic. Are the dads harder to buy for in general?
You see, I never bought a Father's Day gift for my life. Like, I don't even have a dad, right? So Father's Day to me just never existed until I had, I'm sorry, downer. It's fine, I'm over it. I've done all the therapy. But then I had a child and I was like, oh God, I need to like make this a moment for my husband, for the child. But like, he's not my father, do you know? So I'm trying my best.
Okay, yeah, because it's a line, isn't it? The present is from the kids, bought by you, but it's very definitely from them because it's a bit weird otherwise.
It's
Yeah, it is a bit weird otherwise.
Why are dads often harder to buy gifts for?
What presents have gone down well with Noel and not so well over the course of the Father's Day?
So I'm not a very sentimental person. Like if I want a gift, I want something that I want for myself, you know, like a designer bag. I'm a bit bougie, but Noel is a sentimental man. So he loves a personalised gift. One time I got him this wooden board that's from the Wild Tribe that says, you're the best dad, hands down. And I got the kids, I put ink on their hands and I put their handprints upside down on it. He loves that sort.
He eats that up. You could just get them to make a card and put their smoky paw prints on it. Yeah, I mean, that's... Saved yourself a few quid there.
I could have, but now it's wooden and it's hanging on the kitchen all the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's lovely. Men are sentimental.
But yeah, I do think they are harder to buy for in general.
Because they don't like surprises, men.
No, they don't like surprises. And I do think that still men are a little bit more concerned about budget. Like, why are you getting so many packages to the house? Why are you ordering so much stuff? So it can actually feel like there can be a little bit aggressive and resentful that you spent household money on this unnecessary item.
Yeah. So you could just do that thing of spending time. They love that.
They do. Yeah. Well, I mean, I think probably what all parents want is time off. So you could give them an experience where they go with their friends. Like there's an event on tomorrow and they do multiple ones, which is really nice, called Pints and Pigtails, where dads meet up and they learn how to put pigtails in their kids' hair. Like there's no kids there, but like that's kind of the premise of it. But also, you know, like a whiskey tasting experience, cookery classes. I think experience are so probably good for men, ones that allow them, give them the permissions that you are allowed to go out of the house and spend time with other men.
OK, so it's actually time to themselves, not time with you or the kids, OK.
What personalized gifts resonate well with sentimental dads?
You're suggesting going to a spa.
Yeah, well, I'm suggesting going to a spa for a number of reasons. One, men don't take care of their faces enough and often need to. So there's a place in Dublin, I'm sure they're all over the place, but Unique Dace Bad, they have a men's package where they will do an extraction facial, where they will literally extract the stuff from your pores. Sometimes women like to kind of do facials on their husbands. They like to push their two thumbs together and squeeze out all that sebaceousness. But they would probably definitely appreciate if the men would go and get their faces cleaned professionally.
Okay, I had a facial once. It was very nice, but I felt it was just somebody washing my face, really. They're calling it a facial now, Teague.
But it's relaxing.
Tickets to go to something together, you're suggesting?
Yeah, I mean, there's so many things on in Ireland. concerts, the Amgen Irish Open. Like I said there, the Pints and Pigtails, concerts, musicals, something that you're like, look, we'll get a babysitter that night.
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