Over the Hill Gift Reviews

AN OVER THE HILL GIFT MAKES THEM LAUGH


If you’re planning an Over the Hill party, or just attending one, you will be choosing an Over the Hill gift. Spend a few minutes here and you’ll become an expert on the subject and choose the right gift.

An Over the Hill party commemorates a milestone birthday: typically a birthday ending in a zero, such as 30, 40, 50, etc.

But is an Over the Hill party a birthday party? Not really. The two concepts may overlap during one event but they have very different goals.

Birthday Party Goals


  • Celebrate the guest of honor’s birth and continued life.
  • Make guest of honor feel loved and honored by friends and family.
  • Give useful, valuable gifts that he might not have purchased for himself.

Over the Hill Party Goals

  • Express amazement that guest of honor is still alive.
  • Observe that he is much less healthy, mentally aware, and attractive than when he was younger.
  • Give him gifts that mock and overemphasize his age.
Can you achieve both sets of goals simultaneously? Absolutely! By using the power of cognitive dissonance, you can whipsaw the guest of honor into a confusing, head-spinning frenzy. Just don’t shortchange the Over the Hill goals by trying to appear too “nice” or “sophisticated.” This is no time for half measures or subtlety.
Over the Hill gifts have one primary purpose – to get a laugh. That laugh can come from the recipient or the other guests at the party, or both, but if the laugh is not triggered, the gift has failed.

Sometimes you get a tough crowd and the laugh is replaced by a wan smile or a professional comedian’s comment (“That’s funny”), delivered in a deadpan tone. At least you tried. Just recognize that physical and vocal expressions of amusement are the standard by which all over the hill gifts are judged. Anything less is a mere birthday gift.

So let’s take a look at some classic Over the Hill gifts, which by remarkable coincidence can all be found at Over the Hill.com. You will find many of them stupid, boorish and amazingly inappropriate. Set those opinions aside and concentrate on the main consideration: (have you forgotten already?) will it get a laugh?
We have rated these gifts on a scale of 0 to 5 age spots based on our opinion of their ability to get a rise from the guest of honor and the other guests. And we have even created a few videos to illustrate the advantages and to help you with their presentation. So check out the other pages in this site to see what you can get.