i was just putting up a post about mine on another thread and it occured to me that you guys might like this idea.
this is one of the best gifts i've gotten.
you get a trunk or a cedar chest and slowly fill it with items for someone. here you give them away for gifts when your kids get thier own place but i think they'd make great wedding gifts or baby gifts. especially if you were to get together with several other people, you could all just pitch in one or two gifts and you could present the reciepient with the big trunk full of gifts and cards from all of the contributers. mine is filled with kitchen goodies but you could do one for anything.... a bathroom one filled w/ towels, lotions, candles, fancy soaps, etc., or a knick-nack one, or even a non-perishable food one for a college student. i have a set of good knives, juice glasses and some other little glasses, a milk bottle, a pepper grinder (had to try that out already, lol) a little roaster, a set of nice silverware, some cast iron items, glass canisters, antique glassware, a zillion different utensils, some pretty williams sonoma towels and embroidered aprons (i added those to it myself ), a dean & deluca spice rack (i added that, too), dishes, etc. in mine. my Parents and fiance will randomly add things to it. it's been being built for quite awhile now, several months. i'm was hoping for a new set of all-clad to appear but that hasn't shown up yet, lol, so i asked my Mom today if that can be my good-bye gift and she said she'd get me a set.
i love to go through it and see what's new in it.
this is one of the best gifts i've gotten.
you get a trunk or a cedar chest and slowly fill it with items for someone. here you give them away for gifts when your kids get thier own place but i think they'd make great wedding gifts or baby gifts. especially if you were to get together with several other people, you could all just pitch in one or two gifts and you could present the reciepient with the big trunk full of gifts and cards from all of the contributers. mine is filled with kitchen goodies but you could do one for anything.... a bathroom one filled w/ towels, lotions, candles, fancy soaps, etc., or a knick-nack one, or even a non-perishable food one for a college student. i have a set of good knives, juice glasses and some other little glasses, a milk bottle, a pepper grinder (had to try that out already, lol) a little roaster, a set of nice silverware, some cast iron items, glass canisters, antique glassware, a zillion different utensils, some pretty williams sonoma towels and embroidered aprons (i added those to it myself ), a dean & deluca spice rack (i added that, too), dishes, etc. in mine. my Parents and fiance will randomly add things to it. it's been being built for quite awhile now, several months. i'm was hoping for a new set of all-clad to appear but that hasn't shown up yet, lol, so i asked my Mom today if that can be my good-bye gift and she said she'd get me a set.
i love to go through it and see what's new in it.
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