Everyone loves receiving a gift basket. Companies often give away corporate gift baskets to their clients as a token of appreciation. However, most gift baskets are personal expressions of love and friendship.
You can find a huge selection of gift baskets online, from the most expensive to the cheapest. Or, you can come up with your own unique gift basket idea and surprise a dear friend or loved one.
It’s not difficult to make your own personalized gift baskets. Most gift baskets involve a theme.
Here are some sample ideas to get you started:
- Cookie Gift Basket – Bake some homemade cookies and wrap them in colorful plastic wrap, include a personal card or poem.
- Chocolate Lover’s Gift Basket: Includes individual fancy chocolates, boxed chocolates, or the person’s favorite chocolate bars along with a hot chocolate mix.
- Christmas Gift Basket #1 – A Christmas gift basket idea could include small stocking stuffers, candy canes, and homemade Christmas cookies.
- Holiday Gift Basket #2 – A Halloween holiday gift basket can be filled with candy, add some plastic skulls, spiders, cobwebs and assorted spooky items.
- Wine Country Gift Basket: Wine and cheese baskets are a favorite, include your choice of two bottles of wine from your favorite winery or wine store, add cheese and crackers.
- Coffee Gift Basket: Your favorite coffee lover will enjoy freshly roasted gourmet ground coffee (or your favorite brand), flavored creamer, cookies, and a fun cup of joe.
- Italian Gift Basket: Includes an assortment of dry gourmet pasta such as spinach, whole wheat, or sun-dried tomato, two jars of pasta sauce, fresh mozzarella and Parmesan cheese, garlic bread, and fancy olive oil.
- Tea Lover Gift Basket – May include several varieties of black tea, green tea and herbal tea, a cup and homemade shortbread add a nice finishing touch.
- Champagne or Beer Gift Basket – Champagne basket would be fancy – includes a bottle of fine champagne, cheese and crackers, and fancy chocolates; the beer basket includes various domestic and/or imported beers, lagers or ales, chips, pretzels and nuts.
- Pet Gift Basket: Gift baskets for dogs and cats are the most popular. For a dog it can include: homemade dog biscuits or biscuits, a dog collar, dog toys. For a cat you can include: cat treats, cat nibbles and cat toys.
Now you know that all it takes to make a unique gift basket that will be treasured is a little ingenuity and your personal touch.
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