What should we buy dad for 60th bday?

It's going to be my father's 60th birthday and we're looking for ideas.
We're looking at a budget of about 600. We want it to be a personal gift I.e. for him not for the house.
He is not a picture /album sentimental type at all.
any ideas?

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What does he like? Golf? Fishing? Tools?
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Posted: Thu, May 22 2008, 10:21 pm Post subject:

a nice chair

a trip somewhere

nice cufflinks
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Life may not be a picnic, but a picnic is no life.

treat him to another week of sheva brachos

Give gift certificates to a diff restaurant each night for a full week
( don't forget to set them up in a fancy hotel)

Maybe some type of family tree branching off to all the granchildren. We did that for my grandparents. It's hanging in their dining room w/ such pride.

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We got my mum her own recliner chair because she is not really the jewellery type. Your dad might like that or perhaps a new becher?

Well, as the lubavitcher Rebbe said one day, you could "offer" him the learning of a masechta/tractate (well, easier done when you´re a boy, I guess).

You could also come all together, children and grandchildren and brothers and sisters with their kids..., all dressed in your finest, and make a "farbrengen", a nice family meal with his favorite dishes, Torah topics discussed and some dancing for the men.
You could also ask his best friends to join in.

Then add a gift "just for him" ... hum.
A coffee-cup (if he drinks that) with written on it something like:
- Daddy´s the best
- 60 years of love and care that should be doubled
- 60 years... to come! Oif simchas!

A special Torah book he talked about but doesn´t have yet.
Maybe the biography of a Rabbi he admired a lot (Rav Pam / Rav Aharon Kotler / Rav Shimshon Raphael Hirsh / Rav Aryeh levine / The Chafetz Haim / The Lubavitcher Rebbe Rav MM Schneersohn / The Klausenberger Rebbe (The War years - Rebuilding) / The Rebbes of Gur / ...