Category: gift baskets

The best present you can possibly get as a housewarming gift is a food gift basket. This is even better than a bottle of wine, since inebriation can lead to problems. Even if the people you are getting the food basket for aren’t moving into a house, they will still welcome a food gift basket. With the stress and chaos of moving, there isn’t time to make dinner or to pick up anything at the local eatery. Giving them food is a practical and thoughtful gift.

Make It Yourself

You could make the food gift basket yourself instead of buying an already assembled basket. You dont actually have to have a basket for this. You could also use an old but still useable serving dish, a Tupperware container or even a sturdy cardboard box. You just need something that will keep all of the food items in place. But if you have baskets left over from Easter or from others sending you food gift baskets them you can recycle those.

When gathering all the food items together for your food gift basket, try not to focus on just one type of food, just in case someone is allergic to it. For example, some people are allergic to peanuts, so a food gift basket entirely of nuts might not be well received. (And if it is, at least you know that your new neighbors are polite). So pick a wide variety of items.

Store Bought

With the growing popularity of food gift baskets, they are now easier to find in stores and online than ever before. You can pick from many types of food baskets, such as an Italian food gift basket. Most people love Italian food and will welcome such a basket. You can even choose foods native to your particular region. For example, in the Philadelphia area, there are websites that will ship Philadelphia foods like Tastycakes and a pretzel assortment.

In America, perhaps the most famous food gift baskets are found around Christmastime from mail order catalogues and real-word outlets from Hickory Farms. They began by assembling cheeses, sausages and mustards in baskets and have spread out to many types of appetites. You can get food that needs to be cooked or food that’s ready made. You can concentrate of sweets and snacks or get more substantial food, or even the old stand-by, the fruit basket. You can even skip with solid food entirely and get a selection of coffees, teas or cocoa.

If youre not sure what to buy someone for the holidays but you know you want something unique, you have a few options. When you buy a gift off the shelf at the store, you run the chance of buying the same gift someone else bought for that person. Thats not unique by any definition of the word. One of the ways you can go about getting that truly unique holiday gift is by making a unique holiday gift basket. A unique holiday gift basket is easy to make, it is usually inexpensive to make and it can be tailor made specially for that person, which makes it truly unique.

Gift Basket Ideas

Now you have to come up with an idea or theme in order to create that truly unique holiday gift basket. You can make a food gift basket, you can fill it with the persons favorite sports memorabilia, you can fill it with the persons favorite movies, or anything else that the person is into. Pay attention to what the recipient of the basket likes, what they dont like, their hobbies, their desires and dreams, or maybe just something they may have mentioned that they wanted during casual conversation. By studying all of these things, you should be able to come up with a dozen good ideas for a unique holiday gift basket.

One Of A Kind

Remember that unique implies that its one of a kind. As long as there are no other gift baskets out there just like it, youve succeeded in creating a unique holiday gift basket. What that means is that you dont have to go all out, spending a lot of money just to make sure the gift basket is unique. As long as its tailored for the person, as long as you put thought and heart into it, and as long as the person receiving the basket is surprised and enjoys opening it, youve done your job in creating a unique holiday gift basket.

A unique holiday gift basket is the best gift you can give for the holidays. You arent just selecting a gift off the shelf, youre not playing the I can spend more money than you on gifts game and youre not giving into the holiday corporate greed. Youre making an inexpensive gift basket thats specially made for a special someone and that is what the holidays are all about.