We highly recommend this option for anyone considering a kitchen face lift. Get new stuff instead.

Get him a gift card, I don’t buy my wife shoes, she doesn’t buy me tools.

i would buy them i love doing that kind of stuff when i get time. it all would depend on where you live and if other people to but if they are in good shape the want be hard to sell. just run in news paper.

Ahhh. the perfect question!

take it from me, I am the Craftsman Brand Manager. Go to and select grant a wish! the perfect gifts are broken out for every taste including the “wood worker”, “weekend warrior” or my favorite: “cool new tools” .. this is where i select gifts for the diy’ers in my family.

my favorite gift so far, by the way? the accutrac laser measuring tool. it’ll measure a distance up to 150 feet away to w/in 3/16 inch accuracy using a laser beam. i believe its on sale for around $80.

second favorite - digital level with laser pointer. only $25, looks cool uses a cool green digital read out that turns over if you flip it upside down and beeps whenever you hit perfect level, or 45 degrees, so u don’t have to look at it to tell when your spot on.

A good book or video is always very useful.
If he has woodworking books or videos, look through these and pick out something that would never make or challenge him and you would like in the house.
Either get a set of plans of the piece (if he uses them) and a gift voucher for the wood and a challenge for him to have it by a certain date(i.e. your birthday) This way you both can enjoy the finished product.

Best choices… Donate them to a senior center that would have a place to use them,or donate them to a local 4-H club, where the kids in the group would be able to use them, and learn on them, and gain the skills from using such tools. If planning to sell them, do research on each individual tool, and set fair prices.Although most of the older equipment was built heavy and solid, modern safety features and engineering make some of the older tools undesirable and unsafe for use, but they may still hold value as parts machines or collector pieces.I was also going to suggest craigslist, but its not a good choice for an elderly lady living alone, just to many wierdos out there now.Ebay would be a good choice for the smaller, shippable items if you have the time to help her out, and, some of the old books and jigs and fixtures can bring decent money.

Give the DIY Doc the 10! By far the best answer in my opinion and if my wife did that for me I would absolutely love it!!

Give them to me, I sure could use em!