My hampers for a baby boy! ( with pics)

Sounds great.

A good (and cheap) addition would be to add a copy of a newspaper from today (his date of birth) - makes a great collectable for him for the future. A national paper is good for the news of the day and a local one is good too as it will let him see how things have changed in his home town.

I always do it for new babies if I hear about them early enough to be able to still buy/find a paper.

I sometimes also add a copy of the number one CD single, some coins (as who knows what we'll be using by the time the baby's grown up), a copy of the Radio Times and/or other magazines - usually AutoExpress for a boy and a fashion one for a girl.

Free things you can find are the free mags you get from the cinema with what's playing and the coming attractions and the leaflet they print with the list of what's on.

A free-ish thing is to take some pictures of his home town at the time of his birth so he can see how it changes as he gets older.

It's also good to add something that's trendy or important at the moment - a couple of years ago I was putting in a charity writsband as they were everywhere. No idea what you could put in now - something Harry Potter related I suppose.

If I'm doing a whole boxful like this I usually buy a nice storage box - like the big shoebox type things you can buy from WH Smith etc as they tend to be covered in nice paper.

Looks fab!

well done you and welcome Isaac

xx

Love the basket Alison - think I might have a go at one or a nappy cake as both my DD's friends are expecting soon-ish!
Lovely basket too, may I ask where you got it from? I never see any the right size!

it looks great,i did similar for a friend and put it all in a baby changing bag it went down really well