Okay, so let's be fair. Your dad will love your gift to your face, because you bothered to think of him on father's day, though it's no all day celebration you gave your mother, but who's counting. Trust tho, unless he's truly the sentimental guy who's saved every scrap of everything you've ever done since you were 3, he will hate these terrible gifts in private. He will ask your mom why you thought this was a good idea? He will scratch his head in confusion. He will wait until you leave, and then dispose of it or let it quietly disappear into next month's garage sale because he "needs the room." Avoid. Avoid. Avoid.
1. Another...tie
Unless your dad is a fashionable guy who actually wears suits on the regular, no guy, and no dad, wants "another noose" for his neck. It's not something guys actually like wearing. It's more something they have to wear on certain occasions and cannot wait until the second they are over to rip them off. What's worse than just buying him a tie that, yeah, sure, he may use one day, is a novelty tie. That tie that in flashing lights says, "world's greatest dad." He knows you'll expect him to wear this thing and resurrect it out next year in gratitude to wear it again, and he doesn't want that. No dad wants that. He will purposely lose this tie or pretend he never got it.
2. The Novelty "Dad" gift
He knows you were probably thinking, "oh wouldn't it be cute to get dad this." He's going to answer that thought for you right now. "No."
3. (Power) Tools
This is the dad's equivalent to giving your mother a Crock Pot for Mother's Day. It says, you want me to do more work around the house or for me. It says you have no concept that I work hard and want to relax. It says you bought some tools you have no business buying because they're usually the cheap crappy kind that aren't even the brand he loves. Unless you and your dad do projects together or you know he specifically wants some tools, avoid, avoid, avoid.
4. Mother's Day Gifts
This is FATHER'S DAY, not mother's day. Your dad, let alone your actual mom, does not want a box of scented candles, or ewww de toilet. They aren't going to go to that spa treatment by themselves with a bunch of women there or to get their nails done, or to the fancy hairstylist gift card to a barber they don't even like or know.
5. The overly complicated or much too advanced version of something he already has
Your dad is probably a pretty practical guy. He likes what he likes, and you trying to upgrade his favorites, probably isn't going to fair well, especially if the upgrades are ten times more expensive then the stuff he can easily find around the corner at the mall or the grocery store. If your gift involves the words "specialty order," or "renewable subscription," it will probably end up being the first and last time you see that item in his house.
6. The...you didn't even try gift
If you totally forget that Father's day is June 18th...once again, June 18TH!!!, don't do this. Don't show up with some half arsed gift that dumps on your dad's day. Just take him out to dinner or fire up the BBQ and watch whatever game he wants and/or just spend the day with him being grateful you have the father you do if he's been a great one to you. Sometimes it really is incredibly clear that those so called "it's the thought that counts gifts," really are thoughtless.
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