I grew up in a family where giving was practiced on a regular basis. We did not have a great deal of money. My parents worked hard for everything that they had and everything that they gave to us. They always managed to give us some unique gift baskets even if we weren't sure we would get anything. One way to be sure you can come up with something is to buy items when you see them on sale and store them until needed. That way I have a supply of things to give. My favorite thing to do is to develop unique gift baskets for the people I am giving to. This is where the small things I pick up through the year come into play. I think about the recipient of the unique gift I am going to make and I find a container that suits the person I am giving the gift too. I have used a variety of things. Sometimes the container is the main gift and other times it simply holds the other items together. The unique gift baskets that I gave a couple of my friends for Christmas were by far my favorite. My friends love to garden and I purchased sturdy watering cans that became the basket for the gift. Inside I placed gardening shears, a hand pruner, a hand held spade and rake for potting plants and a mister to apply pesticides. On the handle of the water can I tied a pair of garden gloves that were folded together and fanned out to look like a bow. My friends loved their unique gift baskets. You can always add seeds or a couple of plants to suggest that spring is almost here. You can make up a unique gift basket of the recipient's favorite cosmetics. A unique gift basket of games including a deck of cards. Another unique gift basket is a collection of birthday cards, get well cards, etc. and some stamps so they can be mailed. If your friend likes a particular kind of candy that you make you can make up a batch and include a special container and wrap it with colorful wrapping. Another unique gift basket would be two our three picture puzzles that are a bit hard to put together. If they like tea find a lovely tea cup and add some special tea and a box of biscuits. Movie tickets to a movie they want to see is always welcome. Your unique gift basket can be something little like a pair of earrings you know she would love or a large collection of something they may have been looking for and you found in your shopping excursions. I have found unique dolls and gave them to my adult friends for their grandchildren to play with when they visited. Unique gift baskets come in all shapes and sizes - you just have to know the recipient and what they like. Remember where to get your unique gift baskets.
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