Housewarming Gift Ideas
by Diana W
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Moving to a new home is a joyous event and is an important milestone in our lives. Traditionally, the proud new home owner will invite friends and relatives over for a housewarming party, in order to return the hospitality received in the past, and to show off the new house When the new home owner is a first time home owner, he/she may not have much household items. Friends and relatives will usually congratulate the home owner with housewarming gifts that may be needed in setting up the new home. In addition, these gifts are often symbols of abundance and good luck, so as to bring prosperity and joy to the new home. This article provides some useful housewarming gift ideas.
1. Housewarming Gift Basket: This popular gift consists of a colonial house gift box filled with gourmet snacks and household items that the new home owner can use. The recipients will be delighted to find essential items that include liquid hand soap, hand sanitizer, body and hand lotion, sweet smelling potpourri, scented jar candle, ktchen potholder and dish towel, a combination screwdriver set, toothbrush and toothpaste kit and a small first aid kit. The recipients will also find gourmet butter toffee pretzels, French vanilla cocoas, caramel popcorn, and hard candy chocolate mints. Your recipients will appreciate your incredible thoughtfulness in sending them JUST WHAT they need. Alternatively, you can send an unique Victorian House gift box filled with shortbread cookies, jelly beans, cheddar cheese stick, Ashbury tea, spinach artichoke dip, crunchy caramel corn, pretzel diping sticks, Romano cheese twists, caramel filled chocolates, stuffed olives, and Parmesan bread crisps. The gift box also contains an unique gift bag of chocolate mints with "Welcome to your Home Sweet Home" message that will clearly deliver your best wishes.
2. Candles: Candles bring light, warmth, good scent and are symbols of light in life. Candles are very affordable, and have many styles and scents to choose from. It is not surprising that candles are popular housewarming gifts. For example, you can bring the scent of home by sending a willow basket filled with pillar and votive candles with the scent of apple pie, oatmeal cookies, and strawberry potpourri. This gift also includes glass candle holder, glass votive holders and 2 glass candle plates. Other great candle gifts for housewarming include crystal candle holder with 4 ivory colored unscented taper candle. This crystal candle set can be placed on dining room table and will create a wonderful atmosphere for special occasions.
3. Breakfast Gift Baskets: Traditional housewarming gift usually includes a loaf of bread such that no one in the new home will ever go hungry. However, a more elegant gift will be a breakfast gift basket that brings warmth, comfort, and good taste. You can send a wicker basket packed with moist, rich pound cake, chocolate chip blondies, and brownies with walnuts. This scrumptious selection of fresh baked goodies is sure to deliver good taste. Alternatively, you can send an unique gift that includes necessary items for the kitchen: a large cutting board, hot pad, kitchen towels. Also included are Buttermilk pancake mix, Vermont Maple syrup, blueberry tea, drink mix and biscotti. Breakfast will be an event that everyone looks forward to in the new home.
4. New Home garden: Plants bring prosperity to a new home. This inexpensive container garden that blooms consists of easy-grow seeds, nutrients, soil in a decorative leak-resistant container that is used for its very own growing pot. The recipient just have to plant, water and let the plant grow in the container it came in. This very unique gift will be an unforgettable new home gift that blooms. This gift is great for moving gift, welcome new neighbors or to send your congratulations to friends and coworkers.
5. Gardening Gift: The new home owner will likely be busy in setting up his/her garden. You can send a gardening gift basket filled with needed tools and gourmet treats to make the work for the gardener more enjoyable. The keepsake woodchip basket has a mini wooden bird house, a handy gardening cloth apron that holds matching hand tools (spade, rake and two different weed cutters), a soft foam garden knee pad and cloth floral gloves, a variety of five flowering seed packets for planting, and a mini ceramic garden sign with words of widom from the garden. She can take a break and snack on such goodies as Alpine chocolate mints, key lime white chocolate cookies, gourmet peanut butter pretzel nuggets, pistachios while she's reading the Blessings for home and health paperback book filled with special sentiments. Alternatively, you can send the Weekend Gardener Tote gift basket. With 3 assorted sunflower packs and a lovely inspirational book entitled Wisdom from the Garden, she can take time out from her gardening to enjoy the garden fresh flavors with the treats inside this tote! Inside she will find lemon shortbread cookies, creamy dill cheese spread, Parmesan sticks, barbeque sliced almonds, lemon tea, mint tea, lemon sours. She will also find gardening notepad with pen, gardening gloves with rawhide palms, pruning sheers with rubber handle, digging spades with wooden handles, branch snippers/rubber handle, Spritzer bottle.
6. Congratulations Gift Basket: You can send a congratulations gift basket for the housewarming party. The star embossed metal ice bucket is filled with a bottle of sparkling white grape juice, decadent chocolates, scrumptous cookies, Lindt truffles, English almond toffee and more. The silvery ice bucket adds a cool touch of class to the festivities and can be put to use after the party.
7. Coffee Gift Basket: The ideal housewarming gift for coffee lover is a coffee gift basket. Filled with cappuccio chocolate chip cookies, chocolate drizzles biscotti, cappuccio caramels, gourmet coffee, chocolate covered almonds, and creamy coffee candies, the solid wood gift container is hand painted and will make an attractive yet useful container long after the gourmet treats are gone. Completed with a nostalgic coffee mug, this unique gift is a terrific way to send your sincerest wishes.
8. Tea Gift Basket: Similarly, the perfect gift for tea lovers is a tea gift basket. This Zen-inspired collection includes a chai tea sampler, green tea chocolates, delicate biscuits, inspiring ginger sweets and more in a ceramic planter complete with natural river stones. Alternatively, you can send a floral paperboard tea pot filled with goodies, including teapot shaped sugar cookies, a mini honey bear and assorted Justin Lloyd teas with a wooden honey dipper. Honey represents sweetness in life. Hence this thoughtful gift delivers your best wishes to the recipient for a sweet and peaceful life in the new house.
9. Kitchen Essentials: This collection of items will be a delightful welcome when received. It comes overflowing with Celestial gourmet teas, chocolate chip cookies, gourmet white yogurt dipped pretzels, Peanut Delight nut mixture, individually wrapped chocolate truffles, box of milk chocolate caramel hearts, Fancy Kernels caramel popcorn all hand packed in a coco basket. Also included is a few fun mini kitchen tools, such as a wooden rolling pin, metal whisk and wooden utensils with a cloth tote bag that holds everything.
In summary, housewarming gifts deliver symbols of a properous and joyful life in the new home. Popular housewarming gifts include housewarming gift basket, candles, breakfast gift baskets, gardening gift, congratulations gift basket, and container garden. These gifts not only provide useful items for the new home owner, but also deliver your best wishes for the new home owner.
