$50 Christmas Gift

Let me see if I understand this:

I can give them a gift that they pretend to like and the receipt so they can go stand in the return line.

-or-

I can give them a gift card and they are happy and they can get what they want.

Isn't that the American way?

How about two or three nights paid at his favorite campground?

toedtoes wrote:
The best we can do is keep making suggestions so the OP might find something in that list that will work for his brother. He can decide whether to go with the gift card or something else. He knows his brother - at least better than we do.

Best answer yet!

Do you know where and how your brother camps
Campground with hookups
Or does he like going out to nowhere

frys electronics had a special last week on an induction cook top
With pan, for $49

Look around you might find a similar deal
Or
A stove top Coleman drip coffee maker, can be very handy
Or
A new digital multi meter for testing the electrical

RV daytrader wrote:
..everyone is posting gifts that THEY may like!

Much more practical than posting gifts we don't like.

RV daytrader wrote:
Problem here is...everyone is posting gifts that THEY may like! Everything mentioned I already have or would not want!...ummmm,except the gift cards!

That's the problem with asking people what gift to buy - the answers are always going to be something that person may want not necessarily what the receiver will want.

The best we can do is keep making suggestions so the OP might find something in that list that will work for his brother. He can decide whether to go with the gift card or something else. He knows his brother - at least better than we do.

Problem here is...everyone is posting gifts that THEY may like! Everything mentioned I already have or would not want!...ummmm,except the gift cards!

I think many of these ideas are in the category of "if he wanted that, he'd already have it".

Cookware, carpets, flashlights, wrenches, etc., are standard "RV gear". He's going to already have cookware and finding something a bit different (like the pie irons, etc.) is going to be hit or miss - some people love them, some people never use them.

Most people with an RV have wandered through a CampingWorld at least 10 times and have seen all the usual culprits for RV gear. How about items that help organize things in the RV (rather than more stuff to organize)?

I picked up this battery holder and it fits almost perfectly in a slim packing cube (the large cube). It keeps all my spare batteries neat and easy to access - and I always have a battery when I need one. The cubes stack nicely. The small slim cube is great to hold all the charging cords for cell phones, kindles, etc. My "junk drawer's" contents are now confined in a cube - no more fighting to get it all back in the drawer.

The non-slim large cube can easily hold an extension cord, dogbones, etc. Or the fresh water hose(s) - and it allows the hose to breathe and dry out.

These tables are handy inside and out and just "rolledbacked" $20 lower - not sure if a Cyber Monday deal:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Ozark-Trail-Portable-Instant-Cabinet/39511126

If he camps after he winterizes, then these are nice :)
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Stansport-Easy-Go-Portable-Toilet/16224801

TexasShadow wrote:
if he likes to cook, get him some cast iron cookery like pie irons or biscuit baker or waffle iron, etc.a dirt catching outdoor carpet is good, too.

Personally I wouldn't like CI, but a good non-stick large fry pan is in that $50 range.. maybe more.

I like the carpet idea too. Flashlights? Almost any smartphone has that now, and they're really bright. The GF got me a headlamp which is way handier than a hand-held one for certain tasks.