Help me Giant Bomb, I'm a Bad Son.

Let me start this post with a little pretext. This week has been midterm week for me and as a first year student, I've been freaking out and over studying for every test on the calendar. It was looking at this calendar, however, that I noticed that it's my mom's birthday in two days. I managed to throw together a birthday dinner with the help of my brother but I'm trying to figure out what to get her as a gift? 
 
So here's my challenge: 
 What can a poor student get his mother in a few days? 
What are some pretty good gift ideas that women like? 
You're my only hope bombers, it's either you guys or a home made macaroni artwork. 

A Hug?

Give her the gift of good test results, I think she'll appreciate that!

Thought this said, "I am Brad's Son".

A card? You're stressed, she should understand why you weren't able to come up with anything to give her... maybe slide a 5 dollars in there, just incase.

What you and your brother arranged should be enough to make her happy.

Don't dismiss the idea of something homemade. Just... try a bit more than macaroni... 
 
Honestly though, it's your mum, and assuming she is basically similar to my mum, a birthday dinner and the understanding that her child is busting his ass at his studies would probably be enough. Get her a bag of classy sweets or something. Shit, last Christmas I got my mum a few boxes of fancy teas.

what's your budget?

What kind of birthday dinner are you throwing?
 
If it has any effort put into it (ordering pizza and blowing up a few balloons doesnt count) then that's a good enough gift.

I don't know, man.  You know your mom better than any of us do (inb4 your mom jokes).  Talk to your brother and do some brainstorming with him.  Good luck, and I hope she has a very happy birthday!

Yea, dinner and a card will be more than enough. If you can afford it, buy a picture frame and a pic of you guys.

Perfume, or a book. Never fails with my mum.

Your definition of bad and my definition of bad are totally different.  
 
As for a gift - a hug usually goes a long way, and you're already getting a dinner going for her, and you're a college student, you're already well on your way to giving her a good birthday.  I mean, unless she's mean and really over-expecting of you and so on and so forth.  Home made stuff is good though, on a budget, and jewelry can be good too if she likes jewelry, but you may have to know her preferences for jewelry before buying or making any for her.  A home made card could be good too.  Either way though, cut yourself some slack, sounds like you're being pretty hard on yourself.

Give her the still-beating heart of her enemies.

Your a student....drop a little weed in the dinner. She'll be happy enough.

" Give her the still-beating heart of her enemies. "

The dinner sounds nice, are you gonna be doing the cooking? 
I always like to do something home made, works for a budget, grab some photos, nice hand made papers and ribbons. 
But she should understand how busy you've been and will probably be happy with anything.

You could get her flowers, or a nice house plant. Maybe check in her bathroom and see if there is any perfume or skin care stuff she is running low on. Or if your budget is really bleak get her a photo album and print off some pictures. I'm sure she would just be happy with her dinner and having her family with her. 

Give her a "get out of jail free" card of sorts meaning create a card that guarantees your time to do something for her at her choosing provided it's not midterms or finals week.  If she needs help with some handy/house work, a trip to where ever, someone to taxi a sibling around freeing up her time for something else, etc... it's up to her to decide.  Sure, as a "good son" you should be available anyway, but we all know that parents understand what their children are willing and unwilling to do on occasion.  This removes those limitations.  Sure, its a cheap gift but if you think of it as time and labor, then its still a worthwhile gift.  

Get her a grandchild. If you had 9 months I would suggest getting a girl pregers, but since it's on short notices might I recommend buying a child from a poor family? Being a college kid and all you gotta remember to save where you can, so I recommend China. It has an over supply of them, so you can get them rather cheap. Heck, some places are just giving them away.

The gift of a grandchild!

Surely the fact that you've bothered to arrange a dinner for her whilst studying your ass should be enough? It would be for me if I was your Mother.

" Get her a male escort! "

" Thought this said, "I am Brad's Son". "

Um, it really depends on the mother. My mother hates store cards. If you didn't make the card yourself, she won't accept it. She also hates gifts of makeup and stuff. 
 
Women tend to like jewellery. If you know your mother likes jewellery, then you can get some cheap jewellery for her. I got my mother a $50 bracelet once, and she liked it (or at least, that's what she told me). Does your mother like to read? Get her a book. Does she like statues and stuff? Go to the local Oxfam shop and buy some nicknack's for her.  
 
The most important thing you can do is spend time with her, help her and listen to her. Since you're  a student with mid-terms, you might be short on time, but you should at least spend a couple of hours talking to her. In my experience, mother's really like it. Take her out to a park, or just discuss what's going on in her life or try to find what she's really interested in, and chances are she'll be happy.

" Let me start this post with a little pretext. This week has been midterm week for me and as a first year student, I've been freaking out and over studying for every test on the calendar. It was looking at this calendar, however, that I noticed that it's my mom's birthday in two days. I managed to throw together a birthday dinner with the help of my brother but I'm trying to figure out what to get her as a gift?  So here's my challenge:  What can a poor student get his mother in a few days? What are some pretty good gift ideas that women like? You're my only hope bombers, it's either you guys or a home made macaroni artwork.  "

Thanks for the responses all, 
 
Together me and my brother have pitched together about 100$ to buy her something along with taking her out to dinner at her favorite restaurant. 
 
I'd go with the usual easy money of jewelry or clothes but i already busted those out at christmas, and I don't like gift cards.  
 
@RsistncE:  I'll look around for a good photo, I know we have a huge box of them from where my mom used to live, thanks. 
  
@Spiral_Stars:  My Mother's a saint, she doesn't believe in enemies.

Flowers, candles & perfume are always nice and appreciated by moms. Maybe a nice (but cheap!) jacket might be the trick, or a DVD of her favorite TV show or something.  Shouldn't be too hard to find something for your mom.

As long as she knows that you couldn't really get her too much, and you do well on the tests, she probably won't really care. But macaroni artwork never hurts anything...

A new car!

Thats okay I yelled "FUCK YOU ASSHOLES" to both of my parents and walked out over the winter lol 
IM a bad son.  You dont really have to worry about it too much.  Make a hand made card or something

" @fwylo: See, you'd think it'd be easy, but my Dad spoils her silly. She has everything! "

If that's what defines a bad son then I am the best son in the world no matter what people might say o.O

Flowers are nice for ladies. Ladies like flowers. .srewolf ekil seidaL .seidal rof ecin era srewolF

get a card, women love cards as long as you don't get a stupid one.

" Thought this said, "I am Brad's Son". "

What you have planned sounds pretty good.  I would just get a little creative and make her a card thanking her for all she has done, i have found those are alot better than some impersonal hallmark card.

" Let me start this post with a little pretext. This week has been midterm week for me and as a first year student, I've been freaking out and over studying for every test on the calendar. It was looking at this calendar, however, that I noticed that it's my mom's birthday in two days. I managed to throw together a birthday dinner with the help of my brother but I'm trying to figure out what to get her as a gift?  So here's my challenge:  What can a poor student get his mother in a few days? What are some pretty good gift ideas that women like? You're my only hope bombers, it's either you guys or a home made macaroni artwork.  "

Dude. Dinner is enough. You and your bro went out of your way to make her a dinner. Just get a card and some flower and you're set.

Get her flowers...

give her a call and you'll be fine :)

Make something, it works every time. If you are really low on money and supplies, you can easily make origami flowers out of Post Its, which is great because they come in all sorts of crazy colors.  
 
Now if you excuse me, I am going to go do some push-ups and spit.

A high-five and a smile.  It works for me.

A book and some flowers? You can get used books that look new for cheapsies, and flowers are always nice. It'd be helpful to know what she likes though, ladies and moms are not all the same.

get her some cheap flowers. it's what i do. there must be a store with some flowers that are like $10.