Most gifts for nurses fail in the same way. They’re bought for the idea of a nurse, all hearts and stethoscope silhouettes, rather than for somebody who is about to work thirteen hours without sitting down and drive home in the dark afterwards.
So the 44 picks here start from the shift. Shoes and compression socks, because the feet are the whole story. Shears and a penlight, because both walk off constantly. A tumbler big enough that they might actually drink something before hour nine. Reference cards for a new grad who is quietly terrified. Then the other half of the list, which is what happens after: the foot massager, the hand cream for knuckles that split in February, the shower that isn’t just decontamination. If you’re buying for somebody still in school, our gifts for nursing students guide is the better starting point.
There’s something here whether you’re shopping for a new grad on their first med-surg rotation, a charge nurse twenty years in, a school nurse, or a home health nurse working out of a car. Prices run from a five-dollar tube of hand cream to a digital stethoscope you’d split with the rest of the family. If you know them mainly through work, gifts for coworkers is the safer register, and gifts for physical therapists covers the next department over. We skipped anything printed with a slogan about wine and scrubs. Amazon prices move constantly, so check the current number before you commit.
ASA TECHMED Nurse Pocket Organizer
Why it’s hereScrub pockets are a single deep hole that everything falls to the bottom of, so a nurse spends the shift digging for a pen they had four minutes ago. This drops in and splits that hole into five slots, one each for shears, a penlight, pens and tape. Seven dollars for something that comes out at the end of the shift and goes straight into the next set of scrubs.
Skip it ifIt only works if their scrubs have a pocket deep enough to hold it, and a few slimmer styles don’t. It’s also a stocking filler at this price, so it wants to travel with something bigger.
Seven dollars, and it fixes the bottomless pocket problem.
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MEUUT Trauma Shears (2-Pack)
Why it’s hereShears are the most borrowed and least returned object in any hospital, which is why nurses buy their own and then buy them again. A two-pack means one for the pocket and one in the bag for when the first walks off. Ambidextrous, so it doesn’t matter which hand they use.
Skip it ifThese are for cutting tape, gauze and clothing, not for anything sterile, and they’re a cheap pair rather than a heirloom set. Somebody with an engraved pair they’re attached to already has this covered.
They will lose one of these. That’s why there are two.
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RISEMART Medical Penlight with Pupil Gauge (2-Pack)
Why it’s herePupil checks happen at two in the morning in a room where the overhead light would wake the whole bay, and a phone flashlight is far too bright for an eye. A proper penlight with the gauge printed down the barrel does the check and reads the measurement without anyone hunting for a chart. Clips into a pocket and stays there.
Skip it ifPenlights are the other thing that disappears constantly, so the two-pack is realistic rather than generous. And a nurse on a unit that supplies them already has three in a drawer at home.
The pocket tool most likely to already be missing.
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BadgeGuru Nursing Badge Reference Cards
Why it’s hereThirty-three double-sided cards of lab values, EKG rhythms, drug calculations and normal ranges, clipped behind their badge where a phone isn’t allowed and a textbook isn’t practical. New grads use them constantly, and experienced nurses use them for the things they touch twice a year. This is the gift that makes somebody’s first year noticeably easier.
Skip it ifAn experienced nurse on a specialized unit has most of this memorized and will use maybe four of the cards. They also add bulk to a badge reel, which some people find annoying by the end of a shift.
The single most useful thing here for anyone in their first two years.
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Retractable ID Badge Reel Holder
Why it’s hereBadge reels are consumable. The cord frays, the clip snaps, and the hospital-issued one was ugly to begin with. A patterned retractable reel is the cheapest way to make a uniform feel like it belongs to a person, and it gets scanned into a door forty times a shift, so it earns the money.
Skip it ifIt’s a small gift, and everyone gives nurses badge reels, so there’s a decent chance of duplication. Some units also mandate a breakaway lanyard or a specific clip type, which is worth checking.
Ten dollars of personality on an otherwise identical uniform.
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Kangapak Nurse Fanny Pack Waist Organizer
Why it’s hereSome units have scrubs with two pockets and a job that needs eight. This straps at the waist under or over the top, with sleeves for flushes, alcohol wipes, shears and a phone, so nothing gets left in a room. Nurses working home health and long-term care get more from it than anyone, because there’s no supply cart following them around.
Skip it ifIt sits at the waist, which some people find uncomfortable over a twelve-hour shift, and a few facilities have dress codes that ban them outright. It’s also visibly a fanny pack, which not everyone will wear.
For the nurse whose scrubs never had enough pockets.
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Xqumoi Nurse Sticky Notes Set (550 Sheets)
Why it’s hereReport gets written on whatever paper is nearest, and half of nursing is a reminder scribbled somewhere it will be seen. Five hundred and fifty sheets in nurse-themed shapes is enough for a full year of that, plus flagging pages in a study guide. Cheap, cheerful, and used up rather than displayed.
Skip it ifIt’s stationery, so it’s an add-on rather than a present. And anything with patient information on it can’t leave the unit, so the use case here is reminders and studying rather than actual notes.
Stationery that gets used up instead of admired.
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Nursing Clipboard with Storage Compartment
Why it’s hereA folding clipboard with a compartment underneath means the report sheet, a spare pen, alcohol wipes and a set of reference cards all travel as one object between rooms. The side-opening design matters more than it sounds, because it opens without tipping everything onto the floor. It also gives them something rigid to write on while standing.
Skip it ifIt’s bulkier than a plain clipboard and won’t tuck under an arm as easily. A nurse whose unit has gone fully to workstations on wheels may not carry paper at all anymore.
Turns the report sheet shuffle into one thing to carry.
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Headbands with Buttons for Face Masks
Why it’s hereTwelve hours of mask elastic behind the ears leaves them raw, and that’s before the second shift. Buttons on the sides of a wide headband take the loops off the ears entirely. It also keeps hair back, which is the other thing that gets solved with a hairband and a prayer at the start of a shift.
Skip it ifIt only helps with ear-loop masks, so anyone wearing a fitted N95 with head straps gets nothing from it. Wide bands can also give some people a headache after several hours.
Ten dollars for ears that don’t hurt by hour eight.
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Crocs Unisex Classic Clog
Why it’s hereThere is a reason a hospital corridor at shift change sounds the way it does. Crocs are light, they wipe clean when something lands on them, and the closed-toe version passes most dress codes. Nurses argue about a lot, but the ones who wear these will tell you unprompted that their feet stopped hurting.
Skip it ifSome facilities ban any shoe with holes in the top, so check before ordering, and the ventilated Classic is exactly the style those rules are aimed at. Sizing runs large, so go down if they’re between sizes.
Ugly, universal, and the feet win the argument.
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Compression Socks (6 Pairs)
Why it’s hereTwelve hours upright is twelve hours of blood pooling in the legs, and compression socks are the reason some nurses can still feel their feet at the end of it. Six pairs is the right quantity, because these need washing after every single shift and nobody wants to be doing laundry on a day off just for socks. Not a glamorous gift and genuinely the one they’ll thank you for.
Skip it ifCompression level is personal, and anyone with circulation issues or diabetes should have a doctor tell them what strength to wear rather than getting it in a gift bag. They’re also a fight to get on for the first week.
Eighteen dollars, and their legs stop aching at hour ten.
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Gel Anti-Fatigue Work Insoles
Why it’s hereHospital floors are concrete under a thin layer of vinyl, and there’s no amount of good shoe that fully solves that. Gel insoles put a cushioned layer between the two, which shows up as less back and knee ache the following morning rather than as anything you feel at the time. They move between pairs of shoes, so one set covers the whole rotation.
Skip it ifThey add height inside the shoe, so a snug pair of clogs suddenly won’t fit. And insoles pack down over a few months, so this is a thing that needs replacing rather than a permanent fix.
You feel this one the next morning, not during the shift.
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Satin Lined Scrub Caps (2-Pack)
Why it’s hereStandard hospital scrub caps wreck hair, and for anyone with curls or protective styles that isn’t a minor complaint. A satin lining fixes the friction, and the side buttons hold a mask off the ears at the same time. Two in the pack, which matters because one is always in the wash.
Skip it ifSterile environments usually require a disposable cap supplied by the facility, so this is for floor nurses rather than for the operating room. The bouffant shape also isn’t everyone’s preference over a tie-back style.
The scrub cap that doesn’t destroy their hair by Friday.
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Cherokee Workwear Women’s Mock Wrap Scrub Top
Why it’s hereCherokee is the default for a reason: the fabric survives industrial laundry cycles, the seams hold, and the fit doesn’t go strange after a month. The mock wrap sits better than a straight V-neck on most people, and there’s a badge loop and instrument pockets where they should be. Buying scrubs as a gift only works when the brand is one they’d have chosen themselves, and this is.
Skip it ifScrubs are a sizing and color gamble. Most units mandate a specific color, so find that out before ordering, and a gift receipt is essential here rather than optional.
Safe only if you know their unit color and their size.
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Cherokee Workwear Men’s V-Neck Scrub Top
Why it’s hereFour pockets rather than two, which is the whole argument for this top over a cheaper one. Same durable Cherokee fabric as the women’s version above, cut straight, and it comes in the color range most hospitals actually specify. For a nurse rotating three tops through a five-shift week, a fourth is a real quality of life upgrade.
Skip it ifSame warning as above about unit color codes and sizing. And a man who has settled on a jogger-style scrub set from a boutique brand will find a classic Cherokee top a step backwards.
Four pockets and a fabric that survives the hospital laundry.
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3M Littmann CORE Digital Stethoscope
Why it’s hereForty times amplification on the digital mode, which is the difference between hearing a faint murmur and writing down that you heard nothing. It works as a normal acoustic scope with the electronics off, so nothing is lost when the battery dies. This is the gift for a milestone, a graduation or a first job, and it will still be in use a decade later.
Skip it ifIt’s expensive enough to be a group gift or a genuine one-off, and plenty of nurses are perfectly happy with a Classic III at a fifth of the price. It also needs charging, which is one more thing to remember.
The graduation gift they’ll still be using in ten years.
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BOVKE Stethoscope Carrying Case
Why it’s hereA stethoscope thrown loose into a bag gets its tubing crushed and its diaphragm scratched, which matters a great deal more on a two-hundred-dollar scope than people realize. This is a hard shell with room for the scope plus shears, a penlight and a badge reel, so the whole kit travels as one object. It’s the accessory that protects the expensive thing.
Skip it ifPointless for a nurse who leaves their scope around their neck or in a locker and never transports it. Check it fits their model, because the cardiology scopes are a tighter squeeze than the listing suggests.
Cheap insurance for the most expensive thing they own at work.
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BATCLIP Leather Stethoscope Hip Holder
Why it’s hereWearing a stethoscope around the neck all shift is how necks get sore and how scopes end up left in a patient room. This clips it to the waistband instead, where it stays out of the way and out of anything infectious. It’s handmade leather, so it ages into something rather than falling apart, and it’s the sort of thing a nurse never buys for themselves.
Skip it ifIt puts the scope at the hip, which is slower to reach than around the neck, and some people simply prefer it up top. It also needs a waistband to clip to, so it doesn’t work with every scrub style.
The fix for a sore neck and a scope left in room 12.
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Sunflower Bling Stethoscope Charms
Why it’s hereEvery stethoscope on the unit is the same black tube, which is how they end up going home with the wrong person. A charm makes theirs identifiable from across the nurses’ station and takes ten seconds to clip on. Four in the set, so they can put one on the scope, one on the badge reel and still have spares.
Skip it ifInfection control on some units bans anything clipped to a scope, so it’s worth a quick check. It’s also decoration rather than function, and plenty of nurses want their equipment plain.
Twelve dollars so their scope stops going home with somebody else.
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Zacurate Pro Series 500DL Pulse Oximeter
Why it’s hereHaving a personal oximeter means not walking the length of a unit to find the one that works, and it’s genuinely useful at home too when a family member is ill. The Zacurate is the one that keeps getting recommended because the readings hold steady on cold fingers, which is where the cheap ones fall apart.
Skip it ifIt’s a consumer device, not a calibrated clinical one, so it supports a home assessment rather than replacing hospital equipment. Nail polish and very cold hands still throw the reading off, whatever the listing claims.
Useful on the unit, more useful at home in flu season.
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iHealth No-Touch Infrared Thermometer
Why it’s hereA nurse is the person their whole extended family calls when a kid spikes a fever at eleven at night, and a no-touch thermometer means getting a number without waking a sleeping child. It’s silent, which is the feature that matters at that hour. Reads in a second and needs no covers or cleaning between people.
Skip it ifForehead readings drift with room temperature and sweat, so it’s a screening tool rather than a definitive number, and a nurse knows that better than anyone. It’s also a device most households bought during the pandemic and still own.
For the family emergencies, not for the ward.
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LOVEVOOK Nurse Tote Bag
Why it’s hereA twelve-hour shift means a lunch, a change of shoes, a water bottle, a stethoscope and a phone charger, and most nurses are moving that through a hospital in whatever tote came free at a conference. This one has a built-in cup holder and enough structure to stand up in a locker rather than slumping. It gets carried five days a week, which is more than can be said for most gifts.
Skip it ifIt’s a big bag, and a nurse who has settled on a compact backpack for the commute will find it unwieldy. Hospital lockers are also narrow, so check the width if their facility has the small kind.
Carried five days a week, which few gifts can claim.
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Waterproof Nurse Clinical Bag
Why it’s hereHome health and community nurses carry their whole supply cupboard between houses, and a soft bag with defined pockets is the difference between finding a saturation probe in five seconds and tipping everything onto a stranger’s carpet. Waterproof nylon matters because these bags spend their lives in car footwells and on wet doorsteps.
Skip it ifIt’s built for a nurse who works outside a building, so a floor nurse with a supply room twenty feet away has no use for it. It’s also a working bag, not a nice one, so it looks like equipment.
For the nurses whose supply room is the trunk of a car.
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Lightning X First Responder Trauma Bag
Why it’s hereReflective striping, color-coded compartments and a build meant for being thrown into the back of a vehicle. This is aimed at EMS and first responders more than at floor nurses, and it also makes a serious home or car medical bag for someone who is the designated medical person in every group they’re part of, which every nurse eventually becomes.
Skip it ifIt arrives empty, so somebody has to fill it, and doing that properly costs more than the bag did. Overkill for anyone who just wants a nicer work tote.
Empty on arrival, and that’s rather the point.
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Stanley Quencher ProTour 40 oz Tumbler
Why it’s hereNurses are famously the worst-hydrated people in a building full of people being treated for dehydration, and it’s because drinking requires leaving the floor. Forty ounces with a handle and a straw means one trip to fill it covers most of a shift. The flip straw lid also survives being knocked over in a break room, which the open ones do not. Pair it with our gifts for coffee lovers picks if caffeine is the bigger problem.
Skip it ifForty ounces is a large object and a lot of hospital cup holders and locker shelves won’t take it. Some units also ban open drink containers from the nurses’ station entirely, which is worth knowing first.
The reason they might actually drink something before hour nine.
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EASYA Large Insulated Lunch Bag
Why it’s hereNight shift means the cafeteria is shut and the vending machine is the alternative, so whatever came in the bag at seven in the evening is the entire menu until morning. A properly insulated bag keeps that edible across thirteen hours rather than four. Big enough for a real meal plus the snacks that get eaten standing up at three in the morning.
Skip it ifIt’s a lunch bag, which is a difficult thing to feel excited about opening. Anyone whose unit has a decent fridge and a working microwave gets less out of the insulation than a night shift nurse does.
The difference between a real meal and the vending machine.
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BigMouth Prescription Coffee Mug
Why it’s hereA twelve-ounce ceramic mug printed like a prescription label, which is exactly the register of joke that works in a break room at six in the morning. It’s the low-risk present when you know somebody works in healthcare and very little else about them, and it holds coffee, which no amount of novelty can ruin.
Skip it ifEvery nurse owns too many mugs already, most of them from drug reps. And it’s a break room mug rather than a keeper, so expect it to live at work and eventually vanish.
The safe option when you barely know them.
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Wearable IV Insertion Practice Kit
Why it’s hereNobody gets good at cannulation on a mannequin arm bolted to a table, because the veins roll and the angle is wrong. This straps to a real arm with a silicone pad over it, so a student can practice the approach on something that moves the way a limb does. New grads dread IV starts more than almost anything, and this is the only way to get the reps in before it’s a real patient.
Skip it ifIt’s a training aid, so it’s the wrong gift for an experienced nurse who does twenty of these a week. The pads are also consumable and need replacing after a few dozen sticks.
The practice a nursing student can’t get anywhere else.
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Suture Practice Kit
Why it’s hereThree layers of silicone skin with pre-cut wounds and a full set of instruments, which is enough to build real muscle memory in front of the TV. Useful for nursing students, for anyone moving into an emergency or urgent care role, and for the surprising number of qualified nurses who’ve never had a proper chance to practice. There’s plenty of crossover with our gifts for medical students guide here.
Skip it ifSuturing is outside the scope of practice for many nurses, so this is aspirational rather than practical depending on their role and state. The included instruments are practice grade and won’t feel like the real thing.
A skill they can drill on the couch rather than on a patient.
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The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration
Why it’s hereHand-painted anatomical and disease illustrations from before photography, when someone had to sit and render a case in watercolor for it to be recorded at all. It’s beautiful and quite grim in equal measure, which is roughly the sense of humor of everyone who works in healthcare. Good coffee table book, better conversation piece.
Skip it ifThe plates are graphic, so it’s not a book to leave out where small children or squeamish guests will open it. It’s also a gift for someone with an interest in the history of the field rather than for every nurse.
Beautiful, faintly horrifying, and hard to put down.
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Neutrogena Norwegian Formula Hand Cream
Why it’s hereHand hygiene forty times a shift destroys skin, and by February a lot of nurses have knuckles that crack and bleed. This is the concentrated one that’s been the standard answer for decades, and it does the job in a smear rather than a handful. Fragrance-free, which matters when working close to patients who are nauseated.
Skip it ifIt’s greasy for the first minute, so it’s a between-tasks cream rather than something to use before touching a keyboard. And at five dollars it’s an add-on, not a present in itself.
Five dollars, and their knuckles stop splitting in February.
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Aromatherapy Shower Steamers
Why it’s hereThe post-shift shower is not optional and it is not relaxing, it’s a decontamination step at seven in the morning after a night of it. A steamer on the floor turns those eight minutes into something that resets the nervous system slightly. It’s the self-care gift that fits into a routine that already exists rather than asking for time nobody has.
Skip it ifThey’re consumable and gone within a few weeks. Anyone who finds strong scent overwhelming after a shift full of hospital smells should get something else, and eucalyptus is worth avoiding for asthma.
Eight minutes of something other than decontamination.
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Verilux HappyLight Lucent Light Therapy Lamp
Why it’s hereNight shift wrecks a circadian rhythm and there is no clever way around that, but timed bright light is the best tool available for shifting it. Twenty minutes at 10,000 lux at the right end of their day helps a rotating schedule feel survivable. It’s also the standard answer for winter mood dips, which is the same lamp doing a second job. The same lamp turns up in our gifts for therapists guide for related reasons.
Skip it ifTiming is everything with light therapy and getting it wrong makes sleep worse rather than better, so it needs a bit of reading first. Anyone with a bipolar diagnosis should check with their prescriber before starting.
The one thing that helps a rotating schedule feel survivable.
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ProsourceFit Acupressure Mat and Pillow Set
Why it’s hereLying on a bed of plastic spikes sounds like a punishment and feels, after the first ninety seconds, like the tension going out of a lower back. It costs nothing to run, takes up no space rolled up, and works on the exact strip of back that gets wrecked by transferring patients. Cheap enough to be worth the gamble on whether they’ll love it.
Skip it ifThe first two minutes genuinely hurt, and plenty of people never get past that. It’s also not for anyone with fragile skin, poor circulation or a clotting disorder, which a nurse will know to check for themselves.
Horrible for ninety seconds, then oddly excellent.
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Nekteck Shiatsu Foot Massager with Heat
Why it’s hereAfter twelve hours on concrete, the feet are the whole conversation. This one does kneading, air compression and heat together, which covers the arch, the ball of the foot and the ankle rather than just one of them. It lives under a coffee table and gets used while they watch something, which is the only free time the schedule allows.
Skip it ifIt’s bulky and heavy, and it needs a plug and a spot to leave it, so a small apartment feels the size of it. Anyone with neuropathy or diabetic foot issues should ask a doctor before using compression on the feet.
The gift they’ll use every single night for a month.
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Stress Less and Self Care Cards (52 Cards)
Why it’s hereFifty-two short exercises, most of which take under two minutes, which is the only length of break that reliably exists. The deck sits in a locker or a bag and gets pulled out after a bad code or a difficult family conversation, when the alternative is going straight back out to the next patient with all of it still in the chest.
Skip it ifAnyone with an established practice already has this handled and doesn’t need cards for it. It also asks for a moment of quiet, which some units simply do not provide.
Two-minute exercises for the only breaks that exist.
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AOBOCO Sterling Silver Stethoscope Necklace
Why it’s hereMost nurse jewelry is costume-grade and looks it within a month of being worn in the shower. This is sterling silver with a stethoscope pendant, which survives daily wear and reads as a real piece rather than merchandise. It works for a pinning ceremony, a first job, or a milestone anniversary on the same unit.
Skip it ifFifty dollars is a lot for a themed pendant, and a nurse who doesn’t wear necklaces won’t start. Most units also require jewelry to come off on shift, so this is an off-duty piece.
The pinning ceremony gift that isn’t costume jewelry.
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Nurse Appreciation Engraved Keychain
Why it’s hereThe engraving is deep rather than printed, so it survives a keyring rather than wearing off in a season. It’s the gift that works when you’re not close enough for jewelry but want to say something specific, which covers most patients’ families, preceptees and colleagues on a last day.
Skip it ifThe sentiment on it is fairly generic, so it does less work if the relationship warrants something personal. It’s also small, and it reads as a token rather than a present on its own.
For when you want to say thank you and mean it specifically.
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101 Blessings for Nurses Scripture Cards
Why it’s hereFifty-one double-sided cards to pull one at a time, which lands well with a nurse whose faith is part of how they get through the job. It suits a locker door or a car dashboard more than a desk. As a gift from a patient’s family, it’s one of the few things that can say what they mean without a card that runs out of room.
Skip it ifIt’s explicitly scriptural, so it needs to match their beliefs or it’s an awkward thing to hand over. Read that correctly before buying, because it’s not a neutral gift.
Right for the person it’s right for, and awkward otherwise.
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What Do You Meme? Nurses Edition
Why it’s hereHealthcare humor does not translate outside healthcare, which is exactly why a deck written for nurses works at a break room party or a night out with the unit. It’s the mainstream party game format with the jokes swapped for things only somebody who has cleaned up at four in the morning finds funny.
Skip it ifIt’s crude in places, so it’s a colleagues-after-hours game rather than something to open at a family Christmas. It also needs a group, which makes it a poor solo gift for someone who works nights and sees nobody.
Only funny to people who’ve had the same shift.
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Sweary Nurse Coloring Book
Why it’s hereForty pages of profanity rendered in decorative lettering, which is a more accurate stress relief product for this profession than any lavender candle. Nurses swear, in the break room and in the car afterwards, and a coloring book that acknowledges that goes down better than one full of butterflies.
Skip it ifThe language is the whole point, so it’s the wrong gift for anyone who’d be embarrassed to have it on a break room table. It also needs pens, which aren’t included.
More honest about the job than the lavender candle.
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Before Patients / After Patients Mug and Wine Glass Set
Why it’s hereThe joke is that the day has two halves and each one has its own glass, which anyone who has worked a twelve-hour shift will recognize immediately. It’s a matched set in a box, so it looks like a real gift rather than a novelty mug, and it goes down well at a retirement or a leaving do.
Skip it ifIt leans on a drinking joke, which won’t land for everyone and is worth thinking about if they don’t drink. The wine glass also isn’t the sturdiest, so it wants hand washing.
A joke about the two halves of a twelve-hour day.
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LEGO City Nurse Keychain Light
Why it’s hereA LEGO minifigure in scrubs with an LED in the feet, which is silly and also a working keyring torch for finding a car in a dark lot at the end of a night shift. It’s the gift for a nurse with kids, because it will be confiscated within a week and that’s part of the fun.
Skip it ifIt’s a small novelty and the light is a keyring light rather than a real torch. Officially it’s a veterinarian figure, so anyone precise about that detail will notice.
Silly, cheap, and genuinely useful in a dark parking lot.
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Registered Nurse Novelty Scented Candle
Why it’s hereSoy wax, a normal pleasant scent, and a label carrying a joke about a smell every nurse has met and nobody outside the profession wants explained. It’s the gift that gets a genuine laugh from a colleague and a blank look from anyone else, which for a break room present is exactly the right calibration.
Skip it ifThe joke is scatological, so it’s for a colleague or a close friend rather than for a manager, a patient’s family, or anyone you’d describe as easily offended. Check the current label wording before ordering, because this listing has changed its design before.
Buy it for a colleague. Do not buy it for their mother.
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