Baby equals Porsche? Sad, sad, sad

The quest for the unusual baby gift has just thrown up an advert for something to do with Porsches, courtesy of Google. Seriously!

At least the company underneath, with a name like Stork Gifts, seems to hold out the promise of something more appropriate. The trouble is that all those gifts turn out to be pretty much the usual stuff. Cuddly toys and things like that. I’m looking for something more personal, more individual than that.

But not something too expensive or bringing with it too much responsibility. I know of someone who received a small wood (as in ‘collection of trees’) as a present. That seems a wonderful idea to me. Such a gift should certainly last! And it also provided something to be enjoyed and explored together over the years. But that’s quite a responsibility to lumber (sorry) someone with.

So what’s next on the list? Next was a site selling funky socks on the day that I looked. That’s certainly not going to do it. Unless they are remarkably special socks. Socks are not something to be considered as gifts until the recipient is in middle age, if then.

Moving on down the Google page I find jumper sets, quilts and a ‘baby bouquet’. That last one seems unusual enough. I can’t quite imagine a baby appreciating a bouquet. But it turns out to be a collection of essential babywear folded up in such a way that it looks like a bouquet made out of terrycloth or something. OK: I’ll grant you that the presentation is unusual, but the presents themselves are hardly the answer to the unusual baby gift quest.

I’m clearly going to have to come at this another way! Or maybe I should try the Porsche garage after all?