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Clickbait Level Done: Um. Here Are 10 Mother’s Day Gifts Your Mom Has Always Dreamed of… Probably

This Isn’t Satire I Swear to God She’ll Love It

Alice C. Minium
7 min readMay 7, 2020

(Republished from Weird Gift Guides that I somehow spend enough time online to justify as net product and write, but, seriously you guys? We should probably clock out.)

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You already clicked on this article, so chances are likely that deep down you’re done with flowers and roses. You’re aching with a subliminal desire to give your mom a gift that matters, a gift as unique and special as she truly is to you.

Your mother is the most special woman in the world. But in our Muzaked landscape of fluorescent lights and mass-produced gift baskets assembled by metal hands that reek of the unexceptional, there’s not a lot worth having that money can buy from a bin marked Holiday Promotions. This Mother’s Day, you need a gift just as priceless as the rare gem that is the woman who birthed you.

That means it’s time to get weird.

Surrender to your better nature and give your mother something Weird™ this Mother’s Day. Whether you want to stick it to corporate holidays, society at large, or mundane sub-par standards of gift-giving overall, here’s your gift guide to treating your mother with a gift that’s as bizarre…

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Alice C. Minium
Alice C. Minium

Written by Alice C. Minium

Richmond-based writer, investigative researcher, and police abolitionist. Contact me at alice@openoversightva.org.

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