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!
