Birthday Gift Ideas for Forty Year Old Men

Men turning forty is a significant milestone that calls for celebration.  With more experience and increased attractiveness due to a certain level of maturity, he is looking forward to his next phase in life.  At this age, at a professional level, he has a more stable job and finances.  At a social level, if he is a swinging bachelor, he would have established his tribe of buddies that he can count on and a group of family members that he can count on.  If he is a married man and a father, he would have formed a close knitted family, one to call his own.

With this professional and social level, fortieth birthday is a birthday to celebrate with grace and celebrate anticipated brighter future and more achievements to put in his belt.

Hence, we have come up with 40th birthday gifts for men, to give you good reference to buy for the birthday man.

  1. Gifts related to the year that they are born

A gift which has the year that they are born imprinted, personalised with their name, date of birthday and your birthday message for them is a thoughtful and unique gift.  Such gifts include wine related accessories and drinkware for example, whisky shot glasses, wine glasses, beer mugs, decanter and even wine opening tool set.

You may also consider similar gifts such as a wooden frame which listed the events that took place on the year that they are born.  This wooden frames makes a great addition to their living room or mancave.  Wooden frames make a fantastic gifts for 40 year old man, as you can personalise it with your couple photos.

  1. Gifts related to their interests

With slightly more time in their hands and more certain of what they want in life, they tend to carve out more time to pursue their interests.  Their interests may vary from indoor interests such as reading, having drinking sessions in comfort of own home to outdoor interests such as going gym.

If they love to read, you may consider buying them a book voucher card for them to buy the books that they are keen to read.  Pair this book voucher card with a personalised card or reading light or reading wedge pillow, so that they can read more comfortably.

For those who love to drink, you may consider buying him a wine membership for say one month to one year, so as to surprise him with different wine delivered to their doorstep on a monthly basis.  You may also consider buying drinkware such as whiskey glass shots, whiskey stones for the whiskey lover or wine glasses or decanter set for the wine lovers.

The gym goers will be delighted to receive gym related gift such as a fitness watch to track their gym workouts and progress, a gym attire or gym bag.  You may consider personalising his gift with his name and your birthday wishes for him.

We are confident that you will find a suitable gift for the birthday man, with this list of 40th birthday gift ideas.