New house gift

belfastgirl23

New tea towels are always a nice treat once the kitchen has been cleaned etc.

u2nick79

A decent set of kitchen knives!

chaz19

Hiya,

I know it's prob too late now but thought I'd still post to give others ideas.

When I got my first house my sister gave me an asda card. From when I first got my offer accepted to when I moved in she 'rounded up' her shopping bill each week (to the nearest fiver) onto this card which I thought was a really good idea - then as and when I discovered I needed something, I purchased it with this.

She also made up a hamper for me with all the silly things you never seem to buy but always have in stock ie salt, pepper, plasters, cough sweets. She put in some smartprice stuff for me to try to see if I liked so I could continue to buy after therefore keeping my weekly bill down IYSWIM (jaffa cakes, wheat bisks etc)

This was definately the most thoughtful gift I've ever had and she'd obviously put a lot of effort into it. I try to do this for friends who are having babies now ie one pack of each type of baby wipes to try etc.

Poet_2

tin of corned beef, some spuds and tins of beans :0)

we lived on corned beef hash when we first moved into our house

paddy's_mum

Three Fray Bentos steak and kidney pies, three cans of new potatoes, three cans of garden peas. (Right, make sure they have a can-opener and that's three meals taken care of when they forget to go shopping or get cooking!) Add a bottle of wine and what's wrong with that?!!

redmel1621

u2nick79 wrote: »

A decent set of kitchen knives!

Probably being a bit superstitious here but I think it is meant to be bad luck to buy someone Knives as a present....

I think all the ideas are great, also maybe some kitchen scales....I have lived away from home for 13yrs and still haven't got around to buying any!!!

Deinately agree with the pasta/rice as it lasts ages also lots of tinned stuff...
Soup, Beans, Potatoes, Tuna, carrots, peas, seetcorn, and condiments...salt pepper, garlic, ketchup, salad cream, brown sauce.....

Mel x

webitha

the most thoughtful and practical present i got when i moved into my firsy flat was off my bezzy mate it was a good housekeeping cookbook (which i still use 20 years later) and even better an old quality street tin filled with different colour cottons, needles, safety pins etc
as its not something you would think off giving and its not something yu think of buying for yourself until you need it that is lol