What the flip do I get my brother?

[reynardo]

It's got this bad, guys, that I need to ask you for ideas. My brother is 42, he's married, no children. He's just taken redundancy from his government for the payout, and he doesn't know what he wants to do now. He has all the music and movies he could possibly want (they download most things), and he doesn't read. And he's active in the Werner Erhardt (Landmark, Est) movement. He's not really sporty, although he's into Zumba. Practically no hair.

My budget is $30. I need to either be able to order it to arrive in Sydney by Monday, or buy it down here (Melbourne) in time to send it to Sydney on Friday.

Any ideas? Anything? Throw the silly ones in too - they might trigger an idea.

Comments

[gelsey.livejournal.com]

Oh. HMMMM.

Well, even if he doesn't read, if he listens to stuff, audiobooks can work... Though I'm spending more then $30 to get my brother a 6month gift account on Audible for Christmas. Even their 3month account is more...

Let's see, let's see. New headphones? USB drive thingies? Fuzzy colored socks?

I don't know, flinging things out there at this point...

[fluidsparkles.livejournal.com]

Latin dance Cd for his Zumba Ness.

[michiexile]

Don't buy him a zebra.

[waitingman.livejournal.com]

For $30 I'll stage a Landmark Intervention... based mostly on Aversion Therapy as practised by the Goodies when Tim was a fox-hunting Lord of the Manor

"Do you like Landmark?"

"Yes" WHACK "Ow!!"

"Do you like Landmark?"

"Yes" WHACK "Ow!!"

"Do you like Landmark?"

"No" WHACK "Ow!! But I said no this time!!"

"I know, but I'm starting to enjoy this..."

[moxie_man]

You could send him recruitment materials for the Army of Fudd.

[nimrod-9.livejournal.com]

Food gifts...coffee...

[panacea1.livejournal.com]

Not sure if gift cards / certificates are as big a thing in Oz as they are up here, but I'd be inclined to send him one - a local restaurant perhaps?

(Impersonal, yes, but they're small and easy to ship and you can usually get them at the last minute.)

[sly-girl.livejournal.com]

Ticket to the Francis Bacon exhibition at the Sydney gallery.

[kerravonsen]

Home-made shortbread. Use popcorn for padding the parcel.