A sauna isn't quite as expensive as you'd expect.

I love a good sauna. I do have to say that given a choice I'd go for an infrared sauna, the traditional ones are ok until the temperature is cranked up, then I find it a bit too hot for my liking.

Women love saunas, but so do men. And there's so many good reasons to do so. A good session in the sauna can leave you feeling great. Refreshed, relaxed, de-stressed and just all round on top of the world.

And there seems to be quite some evidence that sauna use over the longer term is very good for you too.

So why not give your man a sauna for a gift? There's lots of ways to do it.

Of course you could buy him a sauna. They can be used in the home or the garden, although if it's in the home there are some issues with installation, so don't just buy one to see if he can work out how to install it.

My preference is an infrared sauna. They work at lower temperatures than steam saunas, and don't quite leave you gasping for air as a really hot steam sauna does. They are much more comfortable.

And you can get an infrared sauna much much cheaper than a steam sauna. You can buy portable infrared saunas that pack up and can be taken wherever he wants to go. They are made of lightweight material and are easily tranportable. Now you can't do that with a steam sauna.

And it's not that hard to build one, you can buy kits. So if your man is a handyman and would like his own sauna check out some of the infrared sauna kits around. A great way to get him a sauna at a much lower price. Read more

There's lots of mens gift ideas to choose from - at up to 50% off.

The best gifts store on the net, Hammacher Schlemmer, have just advised me that they are having a huge sale.

They have some stunning gift ideas there for mens gifts, or gifts for everyone really. I always love it when I go there to look around to see what they've got now.

And you can find some gifts bargains there now, at up to 50% off. And if you're looking for some cheap gift ideas then you can't go past a Hammacher Schlemmer sale.

Of course you may not need a gift for him at the moment, but you will at some time soon, so take the chance.

Of course the best way to buy gifts bargains is to buy them when they're bargains. If you wait then it's usually the case that once you want them they're no longer bargains because the sale is finished. So jump in quick and grab them while they're a bargain, then squirrel them away somewhere until you need them.

If you go to their home page you won't find the sale, you need to have a special link. If you want to check out the bargains then click the red ad below. That will take you there.

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It's his birthday. You're stuck for great ideas. His eyesight isn't so good.

I know exactly what it's like because I'm like that. I used to have wonderful eyesight and now it just isn't what it once was. When I read I need glasses and a good table lamp.

So your man is the same. His eyesight isn't what it once was. He loves to read, especially in bed, and he needs some help now. Here's a great idea for a gift for a man like me, a man who loves to read but struggles a bit now.

The The Two Page Illuminating Book Light. Now book lights aren't exactly new, and I've had one before. But they also weren't very good. Modern lighting technology though, including the advent of LEDs, has greatly improved how they work.

15 hours of good white light from 2 AA batteries. Now that's a book light. Easy to use and light, which is important as a heavy book light takes away some of the pleasure of the reading.

So get him back into pleasurable reading again, and give him a high quality LED book light for his birthday. Get to Hammacher Schlemmer to get it, just search book light in their search bar. Read more

I've just seen more MLB gift ideas than I've ever seen in my life.

If you're looking for a gift for a man who's into the MLB then there's lots of ideas around. But you won't find more MLB gift ideas anywhere other than MLB.com. I spent quite some time today browsing around and was stunned by just how much they had there. MLB gifts on steroids.

MLB.com is of course the online headquarters of MLB. And they have a shop there with every MLB gift idea his heart could ever wish for.

Here's a few of them for you to have a look at.

World series baseball signed by Brad Hawpe.

MLB monopoly. What more can you say. A classic.

The story of the Red Sox in 67.

Get them all and thousands more at the MLB shop. Read more

Coffee makes a wonderful gift for him, but there's a much better gift of coffee than just giving him coffee.

For a coffee lover great coffee is a real treat. And there are some wonderful coffees around. Nowadays there's so many different types of coffee it takes my breath away.

One of my favorite online coffee stores is Boca Java. They do a stunning range of both real coffee and also coffee paraphernalia. Including some excellent coffee hardware, like coffee makers.

I won't tell you all about it now as I have written about it before, so read my last post about Boca Java to find out more.

But the purpose of today is to let you know that Boca Java offer so much more than just a range of great coffees and coffee making equipment, and if you're thinking of a gift idea for a man who loves coffee then Boca Java has a range of great coffee gift ideas you may never have thought of.

For example a "coffee tour". A great idea for you to give him as a gift.

What's a coffee tour? It's a coffee experience. You select a tour, say 6 months, and for that time they send him a range of coffees from all round the world.

Perhaps a Mizner Estate or a Papua New Guinea Quest for the month, or perhaps a Sumatran Sunset or a Riviera Roast. There's a huge range of coffees that you've probably never heard of before, and he gets to try them out for the length of the tour. It's a great idea.

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Some gifts are soon forgotten. Here's a unique birthday gift idea that may still be around in 10 or 20 years, (or more).

You know what it's like. Most gifts are here today and gone tomorrow. Not that that means it's a poor gift, it's just that most gifts are transitory. The gift is used, eaten or drunk, and forgotten.

Not this gift idea. It's a fine idea for a woman looking to give her man a gift that will still be remembered in 10, or 20, or even 30 years.

A gift of framed stock. Now it's NOT a good idea to just give a man money for a gift. But it IS a fine idea to give him STOCK and record your gift to him with a unique frame that evidences your gift. That he can put on his wall to remember your gift.

And that he can watch as it grows and grows.

And it is perfectly possible to give a gift of stock with a certificate presented in a beautiful wood frame, making it a decoration and talking piece for him. And you can even include a personalized plaque with a message of your choice.

You can choose your share in any public company. So perhaps if he's a movie buff you could buy him a framed certificate recording a gift of a Disney share. Or perhaps he's a motorcycle buff, so why not a frame recording a gift of Harley Davidson stock?

Remember it's not intended as a large investment for him, it's a novel and unique gift idea that he can keep for many years.

Where do you get them?

From Shareinaframe. So if you're thinking of buying him a gift of Disney stock head on over there and do so, it's a very unique and unusual gift for him that may well still be a talking piece at his place in 20 or 30 years time, and perhaps worth quite a bit more than it is now. Read more