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Happy Half a Century! - 50th Birthday Gifts

Whether you're going for the gags or the goods, your choice in 50th birthday gifts is almost as endless as the number of excuses people have for lying about their age. It's also possible to get something that is not only funny, but functional. 50th birthday gifts should be fun for the giver, and the recipient!

Of course, one of the easiest 50th birthday gifts you can put together, is to buy fifty of something…but fifty what? Depending on how much you want to spend, that can be as simple as fifty silver dollars in a big plastic piggy bank, or as specific as 50 golf balls…left in the celebrant's office or car.

If they have a sense of humor, they'll enjoy one of the many services that will supply everything from 50 plastic penguins on the person's lawn, to a belly dancer that will visit them at the office. 50th birthday gifts are as wacky as you want to make them.

Almost obligatory, are the "over the hill" presents. 50th birthday gifts are a perfect excuse for getting even with someone younger than you. But you're going to be nice about it…aren't you? Find something to serve as a gift package, which the person will be able to use after, such as a mug, storage container, tea canister or polished wood box. Make up an "over the hill" survival kit from ordinary items like jellybeans, to serve as "youth pills". There are lots of resources on the Internet for ideas if you find yourself stuck.

For the person with a passion for history, or just someone who enjoys a stroll down memory lane, you can put together a collection of 50s trivia. Take a small photo album and fill it with newspaper clippings from their birth date, lists of the top ten hit singles, famous people who were born on the same day, and other miscellaneous moments from half a century ago. 50th birthday gifts should be memorable, because for certain, nobody will let you forget that you've reached that plateau!