. Men suddenly don’t know what their wives like, and adult children wonder if their moms have hobbies besides calling them while they drive home from the store. Here’s my advice: Everyone is overthinking this. The one-stop shop for every mom is the gift shop at your local modern-art museum. In addition to housing masterpieces from artists like Van Gogh and Hopper, modern-art museums are in the business of selling some pretty nice stuff.
Perhaps you are not someone who delights in spending time in a museum gift shop, touching a lot of things you won’t buy and rifling through prints of the paintings you just saw. In that case, you might not know that these places also sell a great collection of jewelry and accessories, a.k.a. mom bait. As a bonus, your mom will probably consider you to be very cultured for finding her present at a museum. There is no losing in this situation! Let’s look at some of my faves.
will inevitably say, “I love those earrings, where did you get them?” Only buy these if you know that your mom is the kind of person to say, delighted, “My kid got them for me for Mother’s Day! They’re from MoMA!” In ten minutes she will know this person’s entire life story and they’ll have plans to get coffee next week.I imagine the mom who would love this is some kind of early education teacher. An elementary-school art teacher, perhaps.