Prime member or not, these Mother’s Day gifs on Amazon will be sure to make her smile from ear to ear this year. Plus, they’re super convenient for you – especially if you’ve left things until the very last minute and are relying on next day delivery.

Whether your Mum enjoys spending her Saturdays gardening, or perhaps she loves anything and everything personalised? We’ve handpicked a range of gifts for all types of Mums, and we’ve listed them below for you to have a browse. You know your Mum best, so choose something that you think she will love and you can even get it delivered straight to her door along with a gift note. From your usual ‘safe bet’ gifts of flowers, scented candles and prosecco to a personalised cushion and a new portable radio for her to listen to whilst pottering, we’ve thought of everything she’d like to open this Mother’s Day.

Get prepared as Mother’s Day is coming around fast (27th March) and before you know it, it’ll only be a few days away. Don’t settle for supermarket flowers and a box of chocolates this year, as we all know she’s worth way more than that! These gifts below aren’t just for Mums, but they’re more than fit for Step Mums, Grandmas or any other special person in your life.

Make this year a Mother’s Day to remember after last year’s celebrations were cancelled (thanks, lockdown!). You can shop Amazon’s Handmade gift section for Mums yourself, or scroll below for all our handpicked favourites.

10 best Mother’s Day gifts on Amazon that are lovely and unique

1 Roberts Revival Petite Compact DAB+/FM Portable Radio: £98.48 at Amazon
Mum will LOVE this portable radio, whether for using to listen to music as she gardens or keeping up with affairs as she works from home. It’s nice and compact so would look great atop a desk or on a kitchen windowsill, and it can connect to her phone via Bluetooth so she can play whatever she wants through Spotify or Apple Music. It comes in a total of six colours, including light blue, orange, mustard and more. 

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2. All Occasions Tulip Selection Hand-Tied: £23.99 at Amazon
Nothing says Happy Mother’s Day more than a beautiful bouquet of flowers, and this bunch will be delivered to your Mum for free. Tulips are the ultimate spring flower in our opinion, and they will be sure to brighten up her home. A total of 40 stems will be carefully packaged and delivered to her front door, and you can add a gift note to say they are from you.

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3. Manta Makes Personalised This Mummy belongs to Cushion: £22.95 at Amazon
How lovely is this personalised cushion from small business Manta Makes? Put your own stamp on it and include your name (and your siblings’ names, too), and Mum will love it. Whether she has a favourite seat in the living room or it’d look great on an armchair in her office, we think she’ll treasure this forever. It also arrives stuffed and easy for her to style. It’s wrapped in a linen-like fabric for a luxe look.

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4. Clearwater Hampers Store The Afternoon Tea Delights Hamper: £34 at Amazon
If your Mum loves afternoon tea, then why not bring it to her this year? This hamper is complete with all of the sweet treats she needs to enjoy afternoon tea at home (or in her garden, weather permitting). It’s thoughtfully packaged making it impressive to open, too, and inside she’ll find everything from tea to jam, macaroons, biscuits, fruit cake and even handmade clotted cream fudge. All you need to add are the sandwiches, scones and fresh clotted cream.

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5. Paper Amor The Day You Became My Mummy Print: £16 at Amazon
This lovely print would make a special gift for a new Mum, or a Mum of little ones. Personalise it with names, dates and it will show the alignment of the starts on the day she gave birth to her bundle of joy. She can choose her own frame, to match her home decor, and she’ll treasure it for years to come.

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6. Pomchick Store Personalised Name Kitchen Linen Apron: £19.90 at Amazon
Whether your Mum loves to bake or she spends her Sundays tending to her immaculate garden, she will love this personalised apron. It’s complete with pockets so that she can carry stuff around with her as she moves around the house, and it’s made from linen to make it soft to wear. Made by a small, family-run business in London, there are three colour options available: pink, cream or grey.  How lovely! 

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7. Freixenet Prosecco Wine Gift Set: £19.99 at Amazon
For any prosecco-loving Mum, this gift will be a winner. It comes with a mini bottle of Freixenet, plus a matching glass. She’ll also get a scented candle, too, as well as two rose-shaped bath bombs. This gift set is a total bargain for less than £20, so it’s great if you’re on a budget but want to treat Mum.

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8. RyddeligHome Store White Donut Vase: £24.98 £19.53 at Amazon
For a Mum who loves her home decor, this donut vase is bang-on-trend for minimalist, modern or Scandi-style homes. She can fill it with pampas grass or her Mother’s Day flowers, and it’s on sale! It’s 100% ceramic, so rest assured it screams luxury.

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9. No23 Candles and Gifts 28 or 56 hinching high scented soy wax melts: £9.99 at Amazon
These vegan and cruelty-free wax melts will be sure to impress Mum, but makes sure she has a wax burner before you buy them. Otherwise, we’ve got plenty of home fragrance recommendations she will love. They come in a pack of 28 or 56, wrapped in recyclable packaging ready for her to open. The pack comes with a range of scents for her to mix and match, and they say to use 2-3 melts at one time, so she’ll take a good while to get through all of these.

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10. Vemacity Store Highball Glasses Set: £20.99 £19.99 at Amazon
If your Mum loves a cocktail (or four), then this is the Mother’s Day present for her.  Included in this gift set comes two highball glasses that are perfect for long cocktails or for enjoying a G&T, as well as rose gold straws, a stirring spoon and a stylish jigger to help her measure. Alternatively, they’re also great glasses for enjoying iced coffee. A true bargain!

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Otherwise, if you’d prefer to buy your Mum a larger gift, such as a kitchen appliance or some home tech, you can check out our recommendations when it comes to the best stand mixers to help her bake, the best smart speakers for listening to the radio, calendar reminders and more… and we can even recommend the best coffee machine so that she can get her caffeine fix from home.

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Yankee Candle® is famous for its deliciously scented candles, and now you can now get those signature aromas in diffuser form. Designed to deliver ‘ambiance at the touch of a button,’ the new Yankee Candle® Ultrasonic Aroma Diffuser is a game-changer for filling our homes with fragrance.

Here’s why we love the modern way to scent homes so much…

1. Welcoming hotel-luxe appeal with a signature scent

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Luxury hotels all have a signature scent, to appeal to our senses. The power of scent can instantly evoke an emotion, and is key to creating a happy home. Give your home the hotel-luxe appeal by adopting your own signature scent without any effort on your part. Choosing from all the best-selling candle scents to use in diffuser mode, you can tailor the scent to suit your tastes.

Just five to seven drops from the new Yankee Candle Aroma Blend Oils, available in some of the best selling fragrances – including fresh Clean Cotton ®, floral Midnight Jasmine, exotic Pink Sands, delicious Black Cherry and inviting Lemon Lavender – provides up to eight hours of scented mist.

2. Customisable LED lighting

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It’s not just about the sweet scent that fills your home with this clever gadget, it’s also about the light settings to aid with creating ambience. Don’t feel like you’re missing out on candle light because this new Ultrasonic Aroma diffuser features 10 colour LED lights to set the scene and create a mood to suit the occasion.

The colours can be set to cycle to offer a changing look, or a preferred colour can be selected to create the perfect atmosphere.

3. Choice of frequency

The smart device also allows you to control the level of scent, meaning you have more control over how fragrant you want your home to be. Alternate between 4 hours of continuous mist if you are expecting guests and wish to up the ante, to 8 hours of intermittent misting if you just want to maintain a beautiful scented home at all times.

4. Peace of mind

You can go about your day-to-day routine and not give this gadget another thought, while it works away in the background. A smart auto switch off function means there’s no worrying thoughts of ‘have I left the diffuser plugged in?’ when you dash out the house or tuck yourself in at night. The automatic shut off timer ensures the device is switched off, allowing for worry-free relaxation.

5. Adding a stylish touch to decor

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The sleek design ensures the new gadget sits right at home with any modern decor. Best of all, the quiet operation means there’s no buzzing or alarming spraying sound effects to startle unsuspecting guests as they all past (because that is definitely a thing in some cases!). Pop this sleek diffuser on the side or on a curated shelf and it’ll feel like a decorative objet.

New Yankee Candle® Ultrasonic Aroma Diffuser RRP: £29.99; Aroma Blend Oils are available to buy separately at RRP: £5.99 each, all available to buy at yankeecandle.co.uk.

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Over half of first-time buyers who bought a home last year couldn’t have done it without family support, new data shows. Barclays Mortgages’ First-Time Buyer Index revealed that between 2020 and 2021, the number of first-time buyers doubled.

Unfortunately, though, 56% depended on help from their family when it came to raising a deposit and climbing onto the ladder.

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56% of first-time buyers depend on family support

‘It’s encouraging to see that first-time buyers have been able to get onto the property ladder in increasing numbers since the start of the pandemic,’ says Claire Macphail, Mortgage Expert at Barclays. ‘However, despite numbers nearly doubling across the last year, it’s worrying to hear that many still believe that they’ll never be able to afford their first property.’

Claire says the Barclays First Time Buyer Index points to the importance of first-time buyers being supported by family. This means it’s essential for lenders to innovate to provide new ways to help give first-time buyers a head start, she says.

‘Barclays, for example, offers different mortgage options for first-time buyers, including the Family Springboard mortgage. This allows family or friends to provide 10% of your property price as security, which they’ll then have returned with interest.’

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House prices are continuing to rise, and increased bills due to the UK energy crisis represent an additional obstacle for first-time buyers. Unsurprisingly, given the cost of living crisis and the fact rents tend to be higher than the equivalent mortgage payment, saving for a deposit was cited as the single biggest obstacle to homeownership.

As Claire mentions, Barclays’ report showed that a lot of people feel homeownership is simply out of their reach. A total of 64% of first-time buyers worry they will never make it onto the property ladder.

The well-known bank also highlights a significant knowledge barrier. So it’s important to arm yourself with as much knowledge as possible on the process of buying a house.

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Barclays said over half of budding or existing first-time buyers confess they don’t know how to go about the process of buying their first property. 39% said they didn’t know they would need to factor in solicitors’ fees.

Over half were unaware that they might need to pay stamp duty, if not otherwise exempt. For more information, head to the Barclays Mortgages website or speak to a mortgage broker.

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