More Cologne? This Father's Day Think Outside of the Box for Gift Ideas
By Georgea Kovanis
Give Mom a card and a pretty bouquet -- even if it's dandelions -- and she has a perfectly happy Mother's Day.
Dads are different.
In the past I've gifted my own dad with an assortment of rose bushes, pine and maple trees, gift certificates, a garden bench, a grill and so many clothes he's forbidden me from giving him any more. ("I'm one man," he says, "why do I need enough pants for an army?") He's always gracious, but I know these aren't things he really wants.
What he really wants is a chain saw.
And what he will never get -- at least not from me -- is a chain saw.
I refuse to be party to the disaster I'm certain such a gift would cause. Or the trauma my mom would endure knowing that Pop's out back with a chain saw -or even worse, up a tree trying to trim branches. More...
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