40th Birthday Gift Ideas
So what do you get for a special 40th birthday gift? Here are a few ideas
For him
Kelly Kettle
Men love playing with fire. It is the reason why ment tend only to do the cooking when there is a barbeque. A great way of playing with fire is to get a kelly kettle. This is a kettle with a real fire contained inside it. You simply add in some newspaper and a few twigs and you have a fire going in no time. And because it is so self contained you can use it on the beach.
Smokey Joe Portable Barbeque
This is the present that my wife bought me for my 40th birthday.
Parachuting lesson
My friend Reece was given a parachuting lesson by his wife. I’m not sure if she was trying to get his life insurance! The danger is thathe will then probably bore you by showing all of your friends and family the video.
Other 40th birthday gift ideas
- Tilley Hat
- Survival kit
- Swiss army knife
- Tickets to a major sporting event
- Sailing lesson
- Flying lesson
- Canoe
- Leather brief case or gladstone bag
- iPod
- Maglight
- Sat Nav
- Nice fountain pen e.g. Mont Blanc
For her
A hot air baloon ride.
This could be a very romantic gesture, but if the person suffers from vertigo it could go down like a lead balloon.
Other ideas
- New handbag e.g. Burberry
- Vanity case
- tickets for a stay at a health spa
- Eglu to keep a chicken (from omlet.co.uk)
- Pride and Preduice boxed DVD gift set
- Kath Kidson tent
- kitchen aid food mixer
- croquet set
Do you have any other 40th Birthday Gift Ideas? Please add them in the box below.




Jewelry from Tiffany & Company
(Thanks to Anonymous)Funny Gag Gifts - A cane, a walker, a bottle of hemoriod cream, adult diapers, the list goes on and on.
(Thanks to Anonymous)a housekeeper and/or a personal chef!!
(Thanks to Anonymous)How’s 40 little presents in a big box? They could be food, drinks, accessories, clothings… anything he/she may want/like/wish to have.
Go Organic - if he/she is a very healthy person you could get organic products e.g for cosmetics, food & drinks, tea, treatments…
(Thanks to Anonymous)Jewelry from Jared The Galleria of Jewelry
(Thanks to Anonymous)For Her… have girlfriends over for brunch - have everything ready for them to perform manicures/pedicures. Then send her off for a 1 hr massage… Later have a limo pick her up (with a few friends), go to dinner and sightseeing, bar hopping, casino (whatever as long as no-one has to drive)… Did you remember before you jumped in the limo… to turn her bed down, lay out her pj’s and put chocolates on her pillow and ice water on her bedstand?)…hint - just fill a glass almost full with ice only… by the time you come home it’s melted and still cool…
(Thanks to Anonymous)pilgrim jewellery, its really sparkly
(Thanks to Anonymous)a t-shirt with: LOOK Kristen is 40 1/2 way to 80
(Thanks to Anonymous)jewelry
(Thanks to Anonymous)wake her up early with breakfast, flowers and Jewelry from Tiffany & Company. give her time to get ready and tell her uv booked a long weekend in cardiff for her. take sight seeing for the first day in cardiff then out for a meal. have all her friends and family be at the meal waiting for her. (suprise) enjoy the meal and take her back to stay at a top hotel.
(Thanks to Anonymous)Luxury 100% Silk Charmeuse Pillowcase www.silkgifts.co.uk
(Thanks to Anonymous)a plant
(Thanks to Anonymous)something from silver oasis in kilkenny… nice
(Thanks to Anonymous)Hi this is Sonia from Chigwell Esex. Take your woman on the Orient Express just for the day from London to Brighton, when you arrive at Brighton take a taxi to Gatwick airport where a friends waiting there with the cases you packed earliern fot the both of you, a total suprise for her, then catch the booked flight you made weeks or days befor to Venice, a wonderful romantic idea to which any woman would be swept off her feet !!!
(Thanks to Anonymous)40 pounds of food donated to the humane society in their honor if they are a cat / dog lover.
(Thanks to Anonymous)Just a really big party.
(Thanks to Anonymous)I’m into gag gifts - how about a percentage off certificate for a headstone
(Thanks to Anonymous)VB
Personalised presents with their name on, calendar etc etc or a photo album with photo’s of their life so far. These can be obtained electronically.
(Thanks to Anonymous)KF
How about a hand painted, personalised plant pot? Ideal gift or treat and can be designed to you specifications
(Thanks to Miss V Bishop)Looking for 40th Gift ideas? bagsoflove.co.uk make photo prints, photo blankets, photo books and more…with photos your beloved people, pets, landscape…
(Thanks to Patricia)