Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Last Minute Gift Scramble No More

This post is directed towards my fellow ladies, I don't purport to think that my male counterparts will have the foresight to do this... but maybe someone will surprise me.

Have you ever been invited to a last minute house warming party? An office colleague's bday? Or you forgot about your friend's birthday dinner... that's tonight?

THE GIFT BOX

Every sensible lady should have a gift box in her home, a place to stash good finds and cute treasures to give at a future unknown date for an unknown recipient/occasion or for a very specific occasion for a known recipient.

Stocking the gift box: This is an easy task for ladies who are often out and about. Whenever I'm shopping, I always keep an eye out for things that are appropriate to stock up on. If you see a cute item and you think to yourself, "this is so cute, but I don't really need it" or "this would be great for so and so but their birthday just passed," then you should purchase the item for the gift box! I'm a huge fan of buying something you love when you love it, instead of scrambling to buy something that's not even that great later on when you're in a crunch.

Good things to have on hand in your box or to get you started
  • nice candles (Votivo is great)
  • gift cards THAT DON'T EXPIRE or REDUCE IN VALUE (restaurants, spas, itunes)
  • great stationary (Cartier, Kate Spade, Crane and Co.)
  • wine
  • nice cookbooks (Willams-Sonoma has great ones!)
  • leather notebooks/passport cases/luggage tags
  • cashmere accessories
  • Coffee table books (destinations, artist's work, photographs)

Currently in mine
  • Candles (in different scents, some are seasonless so I can give them year round and others are more season specific), I recently purchased Votivo garden candles on sale from GILT
  • Kate Spade Gift Cards (these are labeled for someone in particular)
  • gloves
  • A set of Richard Avedon postcards (Portraits of Power)
  • Really cool silicone propeller trivets by Verbena


The gift box also helps when you've already purchased a gift for someone and you want to top it off with another little item!

1 comment:

  1. I am going to keep it in mind and will give to a touch
    Send gifts to pakistan when i needed.

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