Finished Baskets - Part 2

cocktailsavings

Hi everyone, I have attempted a "house warming hamper" for my friend who moved this weekend and I will be giving the hamper to her tomorrow.

Contents include:-

Oust Fragrance Spray
5 x Microfibre Cleaning Cloths - £0.99 - 99p stores
Washing up gloves
Jammie Dodgers biscuits
JML Manhattan Duster - £1.00 - Poundland
Cook's Matches
Floral scissors x 2 - Pound Store
CIF lemon wipes
Box of PG Tips
Glade Island Breeze Candle
Bin liners
Ambi Pur Toilet freshner

The following items I managed to grab at Sainsbury's 75% sale:-

Duck egg/teal coasters - £3.00 to 75p
Mini Chopping Board - £2.00 to 50p
Duck Egg Tear Drop Candle - £2.00 to 50p
Ice Cream Scoop - £1.50 to 33p

Any comments welcome please? I am nervous as to what she will think of this!

miss*whisper

Think she'll love it

You've covered all the "where's the.....? " stuff you lose when you move.

Popkins

cocktailsavings wrote: »

Hi everyone, I have attempted a "house warming hamper" for my friend who moved this weekend and I will be giving the hamper to her tomorrow.

Contents include:-

Oust Fragrance Spray
5 x Microfibre Cleaning Cloths - £0.99 - 99p stores
Washing up gloves
Jammie Dodgers biscuits
JML Manhattan Duster - £1.00 - Poundland
Cook's Matches
Floral scissors x 2 - Pound Store
CIF lemon wipes
Box of PG Tips
Glade Island Breeze Candle
Bin liners
Ambi Pur Toilet freshner

The following items I managed to grab at Sainsbury's 75% sale:-

Duck egg/teal coasters - £3.00 to 75p
Mini Chopping Board - £2.00 to 50p
Duck Egg Tear Drop Candle - £2.00 to 50p
Ice Cream Scoop - £1.50 to 33p

Any comments welcome please? I am nervous as to what she will think of this!

Oooh that looks fab - your friend will be sooo delighted!! Its now got me thinking... who do I know thats moving...? Ting just realised my little bro is about to 'complete' on his new flat - guess what he'll be getting!!! LOL!!

soblivion

cocktailsavings - such a fantastic idea, I bet she loves it. It's so useful and thoughtful too.

junior_j

Hello all! I am doing my mum a small budgeted mothers day hamper as her main present will be a £115.00 nintendo ds :O lol.

Jess x

sunshinesquirrel

Hiya

Just a wee quick update for you about my first hamper attempt for mother in law - she loved it! God, I am so relieved - was panicking for a bit incase it wasn't 'her thing'. So, it's back to the bargain hunting now for all the other hampers i'm hoping do to for christmas.

Cocktailsavings - what a brilliant idea! I would have loved that when I moved house.

Thanks everyone - without you all I wouldn't have done it!!!

Gill x

JaneLiz

That's fab news! My first hamper will be for my parents so they'll tell me they like it anyway (you know what parents are like) but I am a bit worried other people wont like them!

Tell me, have any of you ever had anyone who really didn't appreciate it or like it?

I finally bought some cellophane too today (from Ebay) - only 5 metres because I'm not really sure how much I'll need for these and I don't want loads and then not use it. I bought clear with white dots - I thought it was more interesting than no pattern but this will (hopefully) look good with any!

sunshinesquirrel

Hi JaneLiz

I though the same about mother in law - worried in case she was just being nice - but i genuinely think she was really pleased - she certainly talked about it enough! Lets hope its the same for the next one........

I haven't advanced to buying rolls of cellophane yet - I got hold of 2 metres from our local florist (as it was an emergency on Friday) and I used probably half of it for the hamper. It was just clear but if I had have had a choice I would have got the stuff with dots on it too!

gill x

JaneLiz

Thanks Sunshine - that's very helpful, hopefully I'll have enough cello for a few baskets then

I have quite a lot of samples which are small packets in this basket and couldn't think of a nice way to display them so I've popped them in a little cello bag instead and will put a label on it.

sunshinesquirrel

funnily enough, i am having the same dilemma with my mum's gardening hamper - little packets of seeds that I think will just get lost in amongst everything else- so thank you, will do the same!