40 Gifts for 40th Birthdays

Forty! the big 4-0! Definitely a fun birthday to celebrate big. I was lucky enough to assist my friend’s husband in pulling off his 40 gifts surprise. How difficult could this be? Well….

Getting to 20 gifts was easy, even into the 30’s wasn’t so bad once you Google a little. But it wasn’t until 3 days prior to the party we had all 40 in our hands.

I thought I’d post our list to help out anyone on their gift search. We did have fairly wide price range of ideas (that helps to hit 40) and I tagged each gift with a number for my sanity. I suppose you could get really clever and use the numbers to force opening the gifts in an order. Frankly, I was just happy we hit the magic number.

Good luck to all taking on this 40 Gifts for 40th Birthday task! It was fun and appreciated by the birthday girl. Totally worth the time.

Beauty products

• Philosophy Birthday Girl gift set
• Lip gloss/lipstick ‘Kiss this 40’

Food/Drink (download labels/tags here: page 1, page 2)

• Jar of Hershey’s Kisses to ‘Kiss Your 30’s Goodbye!’
• Oversized cookie to ‘Bite me 40’
• Mini bottle of champagne ‘Cheers to 40!’
• Mini bottle of wine ‘There’s nothing to whine about fine, fun, fabulous 40’
• Oversized lollipop ‘Suck it 40′ or ’40 Sucks’
• Jar of gumballs ’40 Blows’
• Pop Rocks ’40 Rocks’
• 2- $20 Starbucks gift cards ‘Better than two 20 year olds’
• Birthday Cake Oreos
• Birthday Cake M&Ms
• Water bottle

Clothing (thankfully my friend is a huge sports fan – – makes this one easy!)

• San Francisco 49ers t-shirt
• Made in 1975 t-shirt
• Baseball flip flops

1970’s themed

• 1975 Trivia Playing Cards
• Made 1975 Can Coolies
• Mood Ring for Adults
• Pet Rock
• 40th Birthday Game
• 1975 Subway Art Print

Sports team related

• MLB San Francisco Giants Wall Bottle Opener
• San Francisco Giants MLB Team Duct Tape
• Alex and Ani San Francisco 49er Football Bracelet

Books/DVDs/Music

• Back in the Day Almanac 1975
• Happy Birthday Mad Libs
• 40 Things to do when you turn 40 book
• This Is 40 DVD
• Saturday Night Live 1975-76 Season DVD
• Hit Parade 1975 CD

Miscellaneous

• Silk Lei ‘Still getting lei’d at 40’
• 40th Birthday Tiara
• Happy Birthday Toilet Paper
• 40 paper clips ‘To Hold Your #%@% Together’
• 40 marbles ‘Spares for When You Lose Yours’
• 40 pennies – ’40 Good Wishes for the Future’
• 40th Birthday Sash
• Desk frame

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