Shopping for your parents can be really hard; finding gifts that they’ll really enjoy and that you can afford is rarely easy. Parents usually have money to spend throughout the year, so when they want something, they can buy it – this can often make it difficult by the time it’s Christmas.

One really good method for finding Christmas gifts for your mum and dad is to find something that they wouldn’t even have thought of, but that they’d almost certainly like. So to try and help out, here’s a couple of ideas for some great presents for you parents.

An ideal start is the Retro Sweet Chewbz, available for £11.99 from most good online retailers. Most parents will remember their childhood years very fondly, and will react very well to anything that helps them remember those years. Well you can help them do that by transporting them back twenty years with the tastes and smells of the sweets they used to enjoy as a kid. This is more or less certain to go down well with the folks and would make a great stocking filler. The Retro Sweets aren’t more suited to one gender than another, making them ideal if you’re trying to find gifts for him or her.

If it’s specifically mum you’re shopping for, you could opt for the Bath Caddy, which you should be able to pick up for around £24.99 from most good online stores. Millions of mums all over the country enjoy relaxing in the bath with a good book, so there’s probably little more annoying for them than dropping the book in the bath, or continually soaking the pages as they hold it. Well that can be a thing of the past with the Bath Caddy, which features a secure book holder with adjustable tilt, a swivelling wine glass holder (two actually) and fits any size of bath. So if you’re looking for gifts for her, the Bath Caddy is surely going to be a good option.