Fun Milestone Gift Ideas

We’re all lucky enough to be able to help the people in our lives celebrate special occasions from time to time. Our goal should be to make each of them as memorable as possible. With that in mind, we’d like to share some of our favorite milestone gift ideas to help with your next celebration.

Our gift ideas are not elaborate or expensive. Instead, they come from the heart. They’re intended to make folks laugh and to celebrate that special moment, as only family and friends can do.

These special days are not just limited to just birthday and anniversaries, although they both certainly qualify. Each of them has several milestones that need to be celebrated! However, the list includes a whole bunch of special days and events. Things like engagements, bridal showers, getting married, announcing a pregnancy, baby showers, retirements, or getting a new job, just to name a few.

In this article, we’ll give you some unique ways to help celebrate all these special events. We have provided several links to products and resources for ideas and pricing. I am required to let you know some of these are affiliate links. This means that if you click on one of these links and make a purchase, we could make a small commission. There is no additional cost to you and these commission help support our website so we can continue to provide free content to you.

Custom Made Cards and Gift Bags

If you already have a gift but are looking for a way to make your gift unique or personal, having a custom made greeting card and/or gift bag created is a great way to make it special. We have been doing this for years with Christmas gifts. Instead of using a name tag on some gifts, we have a caricature of the person drawn right on a gift bag for the person it’s for. Many of these drawings have been cut out, framed, and hung on walls in our family. It’s lots of fun.

The caricatures are typically done with the individual engaged in some sort of activity or something else they are known to enjoy. Or maybe it’s something embarrassing they got caught doing… the possibilities are endless.

Our favorite resource for these drawings is “Krafts By Kenny“. This link takes you to her Etsy page where you can see a few of her drawings and begin the process of having your own card or gift bag created and sent right to your door.

Funny Milestone Birthday Gift Ideas

There are several milestone birthdays that we get to help family and friends celebrate. Below are some of our favorite ways to make those birthdays memerable. With a little planning, and some creative thinking, you can make most of these milestone gift ideas uniquely specific to anyone you’re celebrating with.

Fun 21st Birthday Gift Ideas

For many young adults hitting their 21st birthday is a major milestone. It ranks right up there with getting there driver’s license. We have a few fun gift ideas to help them celebrate this special day and encourage them to drink responsibly.

Personal Breathalyzer

One fun item we like to give as a gift for someone turning 21 is a “personal BAT” (blood alcohol tester).  It’s a great way to see how their celebration is progressing through the evening.  It can also be used to know when its time to get an Uber!!  😉  There are many different models to choose from, but there are some that are relatively inexpensive. It’s a fun, but subtle, way to remind them to always drink responsibly. Stick it in a personalized gift bag and you’re all set.

Hangover Home Remedies List

Most folks who over-indulge will eventually suffer from the dreaded “hangover”! If you go looking for hangover remedies, you are going to find all kinds of recommendations. Do they all help? Who knows! However, we found a way many years ago to take some of these home remedies and put them to good use when celebrating a 21st birthday.

Simply print off the list of hangover home remedies below and collect items from each category. We like wrapping each item in tissue paper and numbering them to make the corresponding item on the list. placing them in a big bag.

Have fun with this by add or subtract items to the list, as you see fit.  If you do it right, some items can bring a little redness to their cheeks! FYI, some of the items for the “exercise” category come in small or slim sizes!  😉

Funny 21st Birthday Cakes

Adding one of these cakes to a 21st birthday celebration is a must! It will really make the day memorable.  These cakes can be made easily right at home and will be great for some laughs.  Remember, they only turn 21 years old once, so make the most of it!

All you need to do is buy a Ken or Barbie doll, a few small cups, and decorate using a little extra cake icing with food coloring added. You’ll have a birthday cake that won’t soon be forgotten. Have fun and enjoy it!

Other Milestone Birthday Gift Ideas

There are many milestone birthdays we reach as old father time marches on. Which ones you choose to celebrate are unique to the situations. Whether you’re turning 40, 50, 60, or older, there are always those certain individuals that you may choose to have a little fun with. Here are a few of our favorite gag gifts we have given in the past to make that special birthday memorable.

Fun Personal Products For An Elderly Person

For someone celebrating one of the “new decade” birthdays (40, 50, 60, etc…), this gift is a great way to get them started out on the right foot. With old age comes all sorts of new aches, pains, and other issues to deal with. Why not help the birthday boy or girl out with some of the products they will soon be needing.

This list is intended as a starter. Just use your imagination and customize it to the person celebrating the birthday. We like to wrap each item individually in tissue paper to make it a little more interesting. Throw them in a custom made gift bag mentioned above and let the laughs begin.

Beer Or Wine Gift Wrapped In Depends

This gift idea is one of my personal favorites for that special someone celebrating a milestone birthday. It’s functional, yet still provides that “welcome to the old-timer’s gang” jab! All you need is a bottle of their favorite wine or 6-pack of beer and wrap them individually in an adult diaper. A little decorative ribbon really finishes them off. Place them in a gift bag and you’re all set. It’s sure to be a hit!

Denture Ice Cube Molds

Another fun item to invest in is a silicon denture ice cube tray. There’s nothing like serving an ice-cold drink to a friend who’s celebrating one of those milestone birthdays with some false teeth floating in it. Make some up in advance and store them in a freezer Ziploc bag so you always have a few on hand.

Write A Funny Poem

This may take a little more creativity, but it’s certainly something most folks can do with a little help. If you need help there are lots of online word rhyming and thesaurus websites to make things a little easier. You can make your poem as sincere, funny, or as nasty as you want.

For those of you familiar with the “SnapChat” app, that can be installed on most smart phones, then you have probably played around with some of the video filters. There are all sorts of funny characters availible.

We used several of these characters to read a funny poem we had created and played it on a large screen TV for a 60th birthday party. The results were awesome! A different person reads a different verse of the poem using a filter of their choice. We then edited them together using the basic video editor on Windows 10 for a custom made video poem. It’s actually easy to do. Many folks can do this type of editing right on their phones. Check out our handy work below. Hopefully, it will inspire you to give it a try.

Milestone Celebration Gift T-Shirts

And no list of funny gift ideas would be complete without including a custom made T-shirt for the occasion. Custom made T-shirts can be used for any occasion. There are tons of options and many places to get them. I’ve included a couple of links below to some Esty shops with nice T-shirt selections.

And for the DIY’er there is another option. Buy a package of iron-on heat transfer paper and create your own custom T-shirt. You can print any electronic image, text, or caricature (don’t forget Krafts By Kenny above) that you have onto the paper and iron it onto a T-shirt of your choice. It’s easy to do, just follow the instructions on the package and you’ll be creating custom T-shirts in no time. Be aware that there are different transfers for light and dark-colored T-shirts.

Conclusion

As you can see there are many ways to put a little spark into your next celebration. These mileston gift ideas can be mixed and matched for any special occasion. That little extra effort you put into making someone’s special memerable will always be remembered. So, give some of our gift ideas a try and let the laughter begin.

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