Moms are the constant in any person’s life. From birth to the insane teenage years, right down to our wedding day and the birth of our first child, moms are always there. Putting together Mothers Day gift baskets is just one of the many ways to show that special woman in your life how much you really care. But don’t just limit yourself to Mother’s Day. You can find great holiday gift baskets for Mom for any occasion.

As a child, we thought that every dance move we did or drawing we colored was the coolest thing ever. Believe it or not, our moms did too. She took pride in watching us grow and learn and sincerely loved every little thing we made for her. Remember the mess we called art that mom always put on the fridge? I bet she still has them all tucked away somewhere special and safe. Get creative, and a little sentimental, and instead of buying a Hallmark card, make one yourself. Use crayons, markers and pencils, and just remember to say “I love you, mom.”

Homemade Mothers Day Gift Baskets – A Chance To Give Back

We all remember the little league and cheerleader practices, but rarely do we stop to think how we got there on time every week. Once again, let’s have a round of applause for our mothers. Instead of soaking in the tub and reading a good book, our moms were always there to haul us around wherever we needed to go. She sacrificed her beauty, comfort and sometimes her sanity just to see us happy. Now it’s our turn. In your Mothers Day gift baskets, you can surprise your mom with a gift certificate for a day of pampering and luxury at a relaxing salon and spa. It’s a gift every mom will love.

A little hard work could really pay off when you see the smile on your mother’s face. This Mother’s Day, make a collage for the superwoman in your life. Get as many pictures as you can and a picture frame as big or small as you’d like. Pick out the best pictures and glue them onto the cardboard that comes with the picture frame. It doesn’t have to be in any order, or it can if you prefer. When you’ve got it finished to your liking, simply put the glass piece back in the frame and add it to your gift basket. It’s inexpensive, inventive and will make for great conversation.

Mothers Day Gift Baskets – What Mom Really Wants

If you pay close attention, you will notice that moms leave hints about things they really want. As a mom myself, I know this to be true. Sometimes we say things like “I’d really like a new bracelet since my last one broke.” When you hear things like that, quietly commit it to memory and hold on to it for occasions like this. Go to the jewelry store and get your mom that bracelet she has always wanted. The best part about moms is that you can make a mistake and she won’t even notice, much less care. Even if you got her the gold bracelet when she only wears silver, she will still love it.

This year, make sure to show that special woman in your life just how much you care by giving her the perfect Mother’s Day gift basket. With a small budget and big heart, the possibilities are endless.

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Holidays occur nearly every week, it feels like. One minute you are planning a big Easter hunt and the next, Christmas dinner is already in the making. Sometimes you might feel like you’ve run out of gift ideas, but have you considered creating a few holiday gift baskets? It’s the perfect gift that can’t go wrong.

Valentine’s Day Gift Baskets

Let’s start towards the beginning of the year. February is the month where couples everywhere celebrate their love and accomplishments by showering each other with cards, gifts and flowers. Instead of the same old gifts this year, try something new and give your significant other a Valentine’s Day gift basket. Adorn it with candy, romantic coupons, tickets to a movie and any other fun, sweet gift you can imagine. If you make a mistake and wait until the last minute, just go online or run to the store and you will be sure to find something that makes your lover’s Valentine’s Day perfect.

Easter Holiday Gift Baskets

Easter is such a fun holiday that children love and eagerly anticipate every year. For your holiday gift basket, make it innocent and creative, even if you are on a budget. Fill it with chocolate bunnies, plastic Easter eggs with candy inside, clues to an exciting Easter hunt and anything else you can think of. Children, or even just children at heart, will definitely love it.

Halloween Holiday Gift Baskets

Trick or treat? I think Halloween is probably the holiday that both children and adults love the most. It’s a time for costumes, scary movies and of course, candy. If you are looking to put together a Halloween gift basket, rest assured that you can’t go wrong. Just throw in every candy you can think of such as lollipops, chocolate, bubble gum and fruit chews. Edgar Allan Poe is well known for his scary stories, so if this holiday gift basket is for an adult or a maturing teenager, think about throwing in a few of his stories to make it just a little more scary.

Thanksgiving Holiday Gift Baskets

When I think of Thanksgiving, the first thing that comes to mind is food. It’s all about turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, cranberry sauce, candied yams and pumpkin pie for dessert. Is it just me or are you getting hungry, too? If you are considering making Thanksgiving gift baskets, it will be easier than you could have ever imagined. Just get a bottle of wine, some cheese and crackers and a few family recipes that you’d like to pass along, top it off with a bow and you’ve got a great gift at an even greater price.

Christmas Holiday Gift Baskets

‘Tis the season to be jolly, takes some time off and be enjoy good company, Christmas is such a happy time, don’t you think? Family, friends, gifts and great food makes for the most important holiday of the year. For such a personal holiday, you should make your holiday gift basket something important and memorable. Give pictures that mean something to you, a card saying “Merry Christmas. I love you”, and maybe pass down an important family heir loom. Time flies by fast, so be sure to make the best out of every moment with great holiday gift baskets.

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Thanksgiving is probably the second most-loved holiday in the U.S. This is a time when family and friends come together to share good food, conversation and plenty of parade and football watching. Thanksgiving is also a time of counting your blessings and being thankful for whatever good fortune you have in life. Letting others know that you appreciate them is also a great reason to give a gift basket.

Thanksgiving gift baskets can be given and received in all sorts of situations. A great way to thank someone for inviting you to their home for Thanksgiving dinner is to give them a basket filled with special items that they will enjoy. For instance, if you are sharing dinner with a friend’s family, or you’re meeting your sweetheart’s family for the first time, a gift basket will be seen as a wonderfully thoughtful gesture.

Thanksgiving Gift Baskets – What to Include

The fall season is bursting with earthy colors and your holiday basket can reflect the various hues of orange, brown, yellow and red. You will see many baskets decorated with small, orange pumpkins, mellow yellow squash, multi-colored Indian corn or brown turkey figurines. Of course, you don’t have to stay within these traditional boundaries when creating a gift basket. Gift baskets are extremely versatile and can include just about any type of item that is non-perishable.

This means, if your friend’s mother is into modern art and loves drinking green tea, you could make a gift basket that includes an assortment of green teas, a colorful teapot and decorate it with 3×5 cards that have photocopies of modern art glued on front. Your basket would certainly get a lot of attention and most likely be a big hit.

Thanksgiving Gift Baskets – Buy One Ready Made

You don’t have to be creative to give a cool gift basket. Custom gift baskets and homemade Thanksgiving gift baskets are great, but there are lots of companies that specialize in making and selling holiday gift baskets. One of the more popular autumn gift baskets or fall gift baskets is the fruit basket. Fall is the perfect time for freshly picked apples of many different varieties. Apples are clean, crisp and very delicious. Often, you’ll find apples, pears and cheeses combined to make one tasty gift. And, let’s not forget the sweetest apple variety of all – candy apples. Imagine the look on the recipient’s face when they receive a basket filled with apples dipped in red candy coating, caramel, chocolate, nuts and sprinkles.

The fall weather brings on the chilly cold air, so if you’re looking for Thanksgiving gift basket ideas, you could go with a theme of keeping warm with cozy knit socks, knit cap, knit gloves and scarf, etc. You could also do a hot chocolate theme with packaged hot chocolate (dark and milk), a mug, miniature marshmallows and chocolate candies.

If you know that your gift basket will be shared by a group of people (family or friends), you can include items that involve a joint experience, like music CDs, movie DVDs, a board game, popcorn, assorted meats, cheeses and snacks and similar things.

Thanksgiving is a time to share old memories and to make new ones with people you care about. And if you’re looking for Thanksgiving gift ideas, consider a seasonal basket. Whatever Thanksgiving gift baskets you give someone, it will bring lots of cheer to them during this wonderful season of thanks.

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There is any number of reasons why you might decide to create or send custom gift baskets. One reason might be if you are in sales and you wanted to send your best customer each month a custom gift basket.  Obviously you will want to send something appropriate and not too personal, but if you are sending a custom gift basket to a female customer, some chocolates will always be appreciated – unless of course she’s on a diet or is diabetic – so be careful.

Sending alcohol in a custom corporate gift basket may not be appropriate, but by including a gift certificate as the most valuable part of the gift basket it will be appreciated.  The recipient can decide where and what he or she wants to spend their gift certificate on, and if you purchase one from a major online or offline retailer they will have a wide variety of choices.

If you have just started a new local business, then a custom gift basket containing samples of your products can be a great idea.  People can try your products with no risk or financial outlay, and you could also include some money off coupons in the basket, encouraging them to come and shop with you.

Custom gift baskets also make a nice reward for employees who go that extra mile.  Offering a custom gift basket each month to the person who makes the most sales, or is never late – or whatever the reason, custom gift baskets make a nice incentive and can improve productivity – but that’s only if the gift basket contains something of real value, perhaps a gym membership, or a weekend getaway, simply offer the employee a choice.

Of course gift baskets work great for any holiday or special occasion. For instance birthday gift baskets for a sports fan could be custom made to include memorabilia and perhaps some tickets to the big game coming up. When you create a gift basket, you are sure to come up with something unique.

Where To Get Custom Gift Baskets

Many online companies offer ready made gift baskets but if you want something special in the gift basket you may have to look further for a company that will make up customs gift baskets for you.  If you are looking for a custom made corporate gift basket for an executive, the items in the basket should be high quality.  If the executive enjoys playing golf and smokes cigars, it will be easy to find out which golf balls he uses and make up a gift basket with some of his favorite cigars too.

How About A Custom Gift Baskets Business?

Making custom gift baskets can be a nice little part time job you can do from home.  Make the gift baskets look expensive though, don’t choose the cheapest baskets you can get, as they will make even the most expensive contents look shoddy.

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Marketing is the key to getting any business off the ground these days, so the best way to promote your gift baskets would be to build a website and perhaps give some away at local events. People will always want gift baskets, whether for birthday gifts, thank you gifts or for Easter or Christmas.  By offering build gift baskets with some unusual items, or a selection of locally made items in your custom gift baskets, you could start a nice little side business that is fun and easy to run.

I can’t think of anybody that doesn’t like a gift basket. So when the next birthday rolls around, be it a man, woman or child; a gift basket will bring a smile to their face.

Birthday Gift Baskets for Men

In a word… BEER! Yes it’s true, after I Googled birthday gift baskets for men, I pulled up no fewer than eight birthday beer gift baskets. There are beers from around the world (6 pack or 12 pack), light beers (available in three or six pack), Irish beers, micro-brews (3 or 6 packs), Beer-B-Q and deluxe Beer-B-Q (holy cow, my mouth is watering!), Heineken and friends gourmet beer. But beer isn’t the only thing in the basket. There’s sausage, cheese, chips, crackers, etc. Not a beer lover? No problem. They’ve got car wash, champagne, cocktail, golf, fishing, football, pets and snow sports. Now I know there’s something there that a guy would just love. There are cheap birthday gift baskets start at $50 and go all the way up to $125 plus.

Birthday Gift Baskets for Women

Now there’s nothing saying that one of the gift baskets I just talked about couldn’t be for a woman. The female persuasion does after all have the capability to enjoy golf, football, fishing, etc. And BEER! But if you’re buying for that extremely feminine, ladylike little woman fresh out of a fairy tale; here are some suggestions. In a word… chocolate! What kind of chocolate, you may ask?

Chocolate dipped Oreos (seems a little redundant), confetti Belgian chocolate with pretzel twists, more dipped Oreos but these have little yellow smiley faces on them, gourmet chocolates (Godiva chocolates); moving on to cookies –chocolate chip cookies, fortune cookies, cookies with messages on them written in the frosting (happy birthday, over the hill (I’d be really careful with that one), lordy, look who’s 40, nifty fifty, rose petals, those damn smiley faces again, cookies that look like purses and high heeled shoes in the Diva basket), cookies and more cookies.

Off the beaten path of chocolate and cookies we have a theater popcorn themed basket, an over the hill basket with body and skin creams and anti aging products (again, you’re treading on very thin ice with this one), bouquets made out of candy bars (not just chocolate ones either), teddy bear gift baskets and many more.

Birthday Gift Baskets for Kids

The junk food madness pail (whoops, I forgot junk food), various Disney and Pixar movie themed baskets, Elmo, teddy bears, Sponge Bob (there’s also a Sponge Bob ultimate), Dora the Explorer, Hannah Montana (and a special H.M. slumber party basket), soccer, baseball, Sponge Bob with fun and games, Winnie the Pooh, Spiderman, NASCAR, Mickey Mouse, the Jonas Brothers (oh brother) and various Princess baskets (huh, no Prince?).

As you can see, you can’t go wrong with a happy birthday gift basket no matter who it’s for. From candies to gifts to cookies, snacks and assorted party packages; there is clearly something for everyone when it comes to birthday gift baskets.

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Gift baskets for men may sound a bit, well, girlie perhaps? But that really need not be the case, a gift basket can have masculine overtones definitely and with the right choice of basket, stuffing and contents, of course gift baskets for men can be a great gift idea.

What’s the occasion is the first question you need to answer. Is this a birthday gift baskets, one for a holiday, or perhaps a corporate gift basket?

It’s always hard to decide on what to take when someone is in hospital, but if it’s a man you are very close to, a thoughtful gift will always be appreciated. In hospital many men may be without a lot of their favorite things, like shaving soap, and their favorite brand of razor, and a gift basket simply made up of their favorite shaving products, along with some soap and perhaps a couple of nice wash cloths will be very welcome.

Unique Gift Baskets For Men – What To Include

Gift baskets for men can be made or purchased for any occasion of course. If your man has a favorite tipple, gift baskets for men can be made around a bottle of good whisky for example, and with the addition of some of his favorite snacks he will be a very happy camper.

If he loves gourmet food there are many commercially made edible gift baskets for men that are made with the gourmet in mind that contain snacks, cheeses, preserved meats and such. Most American men always appreciate food gifts! And if it’s healthy that’s even better.

If he loves sports, racing, fishing or whatever, build gift baskets for men around a theme and even if he’s an avid hobbyist or DIYer, you will be able to find just the right ingredients for the gift basket.

If you are making it yourself, there are many beautiful baskets imported from Africa that have manly, earthy colors in them such as dark browns and blacks – why make a gift basket with a cheap old basket when you can buy a handmade piece of art that he will want to keep for ever? Baskets are great for throwing all that pocket stuff into and kept by the front door or in the bedroom.

Gift baskets for men can be lined with dark tissue paper – you can purchase just about any color these days including black, so there’s no reason to put in that ghastly pink plastic stuff that looks horrible and says “cheap”.

If he is sick or in hospital and you know him well, the addition of a good book on a subject he loves will always be appreciated and help to while away the long boring hours while he is laid up.

Gift baskets for men can be a fun idea, especially if you hide the best gift of all below everything else. He can smile at the bottle you bought him, or the gourmet foods, the rolled up tie – whatever. You can always hide a gift card to his favorite department store, men’s clothing store, or hobby shop underneath all that, so he leaves the best until last.

The best gift baskets for men are those that contain lots of things they love and have a lot of love put into them.

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Corporate gift baskets, like wedding gift baskets and all other baskets of this sort, are a great way of expressing appreciation or gratitude, welcome, good faith, congratulations and more. In today’s health-conscious society, some corporations may choose to go with fresh tasty fruit baskets containing juicy navel oranges, ruby red apples, royal comice pears and more. Those opting for fun or food cravings corporate gift baskets will have no problem finding those as well. There are any number of websites dealing in gift baskets, corporate included.

You have how many corporate gift baskets?

One particular website dealing with gift baskets boasts 112 unique gift baskets for business. Some of the corporate gift baskets available for purchase are specified for corporate, personalized, company, VIP, executive, office, professional and general business. What’s inside those baskets is of a far greater variety. Ghirardelli or Godiva chocolates (ugh, just kill me now), fine wines, gourmet cheeses, teas or Starbucks coffees, Mrs. Fields cookies, candies, golf themed, organic, party snacks and more. Many of the wine and cheese baskets include different flavor gourmet crackers, smoked salmon, pretzels, nuts, and chocolate truffles and wafers and other side items. Cutting boards are included with any sausage or cheese basket. Chocolate baskets additionally can contain items such as cookies, chocolates, biscotti and more.

Why send a corporate gift basket?

Lasting relationships, even those in the business world, don’t happen overnight. They need to be refined, built upon, reminded and nurtured. Expressing the fact that you treasure those relationships and want to maintain ties with associates (even if the distance between your companies or personnel is small) is made much easier with the use of corporate gift baskets. It’s the simple things, like a basket of chocolates, which can sometimes make a crucial difference in your business relationships.

What the senders and recipients of a corporate gift basket have to say

The particular website discussed earlier was found to be prompt with delivery and easy to work with. One customer, having sent a corporate gift basket of cookies to her place of employment, said that they were the hit of the office. She ordered an Easter basket from the same company, she was so impressed with the first corporate gift basket. Another testimonial mentioned a small problem that had arisen, but then after a simple phone call all was rectified. They are now dedicated customers. An associate wanting to express gratitude to a client sent a spa corporate gift basket. She was so impressed the she has made this particular gift basket company their official website for ordering future baskets.

Discounts are provided for businesses depending on the initial amount spent on baskets. Experienced professionals can assist customers in choosing just the right basket. There are many such services online; the service described here has been utilized by such companies as AFLAC, Allstate, American Express, Capital One, Humana, McDonalds, Merrill Lynch, Pepsi, Nike, Time Warner and Verizon just to name a few. They use FedEx and UPS for their shipping needs, as well as others. Your corporate gift basket will be assembled either the same day as your call, or the next day guaranteed, and a number of delivery options are available.

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The bridal registry is normally the first place to look when it comes to buying gifts for a couple getting married. While everyone else is getting them a toaster or dish set, you could be quietly planning a truly unique gift from the heart – a wedding gift basket. Giving a gift basket is a popular way for a creative-minded person to give something that is both appreciated and memorable. Conventional gifts are fine, but wedding gift baskets are in a class by themselves.

Much like thank you gift baskets, putting together a homemade wedding gift basket can be a lot of fun, and it’s also a great way to give something that’s more personalized than a high-speed blender. Sure, the couple may need that blender, but they will have other needs as well. Spending time together and getting adjusted to the routines of married life is a part of this important transition for both partners. Your special gift basket can be a way of acknowledging this transition and helping them to enjoy their new status as man and wife.

Wedding Gift Baskets – Do It Yourself

While you can always order expensive or cheap wedding gift baskets from a shop or online store, it will mean a lot more if you create the basket yourself. This allows you to have complete control over the look of the gift as well as every item that goes inside. You can use a traditional wicker basket in a natural wood color, or paint it white or silver. You also want to pick up some decorative cellophane and decorations like ribbon and wedding themed stickers. You should find most of what you need at your local craft supply store and the end result will be unique wedding gifts.

Wedding Gift Baskets – Some Ideas

Date Night Basket – As the new couple goes about their everyday lives, the excitement of the wedding will eventually fade and be replaced by the usual busy chores and responsibilities. One of the things that has proven to keep couples tuned into each other is scheduling a regular date night. Your gift basket can include items like a favorite movie or TV show, a certificate for free or discount movie rentals, tickets to a movie theater, local play or concert, a large snack bowl, popcorn and movie theater snacks, hot chocolate, mugs and an appointment book for scheduling dates.

Dinner for Two Basket – A romantic meal is always a good way to spend an evening. Dinner for two will include items that make it easy for the couple to prepare a special meal together. The popular Italian dinner includes: dried pasta noodles, marinara or spaghetti sauce, grated cheese, seasonings, wine and a pasta maker. A taco night dinner includes: taco shells, salsa, refried beans, black beans, Spanish or Mexican rice, guacamole mix, seasonings and colorful plates.

Weekend Getaway Basket – Sometimes couples like to pick up and just get away from it all for a few days. You can assist your newlyweds by including items like: a GPS device, beach towels, his and her sunglasses, an out of town restaurant gift certificate, snacks to eat on the go, a prepaid credit card and flip flops.

Unique wedding gift baskets can be a lot of fun to create and even more fun to give.

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When people have been good to you, sending thank you gift baskets is always a special way of saying you appreciated what they have done for you.  If it is someone you are close to and know well, its fun to find gift basket containing appropriate goodies that will brighten their day and say you care too.

Making Thank You Gift Baskets

Of course, you can make unique thank you gifts if you want to deliver them by hand, and thank you gift baskets can contain just about anything.  And they don’t just have to be for saying thank you. You can get housewarming gift baskets, holiday gift baskets, birthday baskets and more. In any case, if the recipient loves good food, a gourmet gift basket could include some tasty cheeses and perhaps some other small but expensive items.  Add a bottle of wine and you have a delightful gift basket that any foodie would appreciate.  If you are going to make your own thank you gift baskets, have a good idea what you are going to put in the basket before you buy it, so you have plenty of room to arrange the items attractively and put some colorful tissue paper in between the items to help them stay in place.  A bow on the handle always adds a great finishing touch if your thank you gift baskets are for women. There are plenty of inexpensive thank you gift baskets ideas that will express appreciation. Thank you cookie baskets and candy thank you gift baskets are always well received.

Buying Thank You Gift Baskets Online

If you don’t have the time to shop around to get the basket, the tissue paper, card and all the things you want to put in the gift basket, then there are lots of places online that offer ready made unique thank you gifts to suit any budget.  These are a much better idea if you want to send the gift basket quickly and the recipient does not live near to you.  Many companies offer to deliver via FedEx, which is the fastest way of sending your thank you gift baskets.  If you have made your own, be aware the United States Postal Service will not allow you to send alcohol through the mail.

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Buying thank you gift baskets online can be confusing as there are so many to choose from.  Decide what you want to send before you start looking.  Many women love bath items in a gift basket and if you know what brand of lotions and potions she likes best you may be able to go straight to a specialist site.   If it’s spring, then a gardener will appreciate a gift basket containing some packets of seeds and perhaps a couple of handy garden tools and some bulbs to plant.

If you do buy a gift basket online there will probably be a card that you can send along with it.  If you make your own, don’t forget to include an appropriate card with your thank you gift baskets.

Thank you gift baskets for men could contain a tie, some cologne and perhaps a gift certificate for something he enjoys, such as the movies, a home improvement store or a music or book token.

Saying you appreciate an act of kindness with thank you gift baskets is a much better way to say thank you than a phone call or an email.

Nothing says, “welcome to the neighborhood” like housewarming gift baskets presented to a new individual, couple or family that has just moved in nearby. Some people may think that a housewarming gift is corny or old fashioned, but in reality, most people will welcome such a warm and friendly gesture. Not only is moving stressful, but the sheer effort it takes to unpack and arrange belongings in a new home can be exhausting. Most people will only be able to unpack a few essentials to get by for a few days.

Imagine how good you would feel if someone rang your doorbell and you opened the door to the smile of a neighbor who is holding a beautifully wrapped gift basket. Wouldn’t that give you a good feeling about your new home and neighborhood? Well, that’s exactly why it’s a great idea to give someone housewarming gift baskets. If you wish to be the person who is on the giving end, you’ll also get a big rush of the warm fuzzies, because making others feel good is going to do wonders for you as well.

How To Make Housewarming Gift Baskets

If you’re an arts and crafts type of person who enjoys making things with your hands, you can create your own unique basket to give as a housewarming gift. There are plenty of places where you can pick up an inexpensive wicker basket and decorate it with items from the craft store. The harder part is deciding what to put inside of the basket. After all, you don’t really know the recipients that well. You’ve seen them shuffling back and forth while moving items inside, but most likely, haven’t had a chance to formally introduce yourself. So, you don’t really know what their personal tastes are, or what kind of activities they like to do. In this situation, it’s best to buy things that are universally enjoyed by many people. The good news is that there are many housewarming gift iseas.

Types Of Housewarming Gift Baskets

Food Gift Basket – One thing that everybody likes is some type of food goodies. You want to include foods that are well packaged and easy to eat or prepare. You can bet that the new neighbor(s) won’t be fixing lavish meals for a while. Therefore, they would probably welcome foods that provide a quick snack while they are getting settled into their new place.

Some great items for a food basket would be:

•    Baked Goods
•    Popcorn
•    Trail mix
•    Cookies
•    Candy Assortment
•    Cheese
•    Crackers
•    Snack Chips
•    Tea
•    Coffee
•    Creamer
•    Dried Pasta
•    Spaghetti Sauce
•    Tuna Fish
•    Mayonnaise
•    Mustard
•    Plastic Utensils

Practical Gift Basket – You could go the practical route and make a basket that includes items that provide your new neighbors with those little things that anyone can use.

Some great items for a practical basket would be:

•    Mugs
•    Cleaning Items
•    Kitchen Utensils
•    Kitchen Timer
•    Map of the Area
•    Light Bulbs
•    Local Store Coupons
•    Special Attraction Brochures
•    Local Restaurant Menus
•    Store Gift Cards
•    Day Planner
•    Soap Dish or Dispenser
•    Paper Towel Rack

Decorative Gift Basket – Most people will decorate their home in some way. Here are some items that work well for this basket:

•    Picture Frames
•    Potted Plant
•    Plastic Flowers
•    Flower Vase
•    Photo Album
•    Scrapbook
•    Pencil/Pen Holder
•    Home Decorating Ideas Book

You can probably put your thinking cap on and come up with some more creative ideas for a housewarming gift basket. Whatever you put inside, it will be much appreciated by your new neighbors.

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