A College Gift Basket: A Parent Gives Her Tips
I've always heard a good way to mark an important situation is with a gift or gift basket. And one of those is surely sending a daughter or son off to college. Anyone who has ever had the experience can sympathize with your emotional stress. If your life were a book, this would be time to start a new chapter.
Reality sets in when dad tries to fit everything into the car; it's predictable that things have to be left behind and even if it could be brought, there wouldn't be enough space in a tiny dorm room. But otherwise, it all gets worked out. This why care packages were invented. On the other end will be teens eagerly waiting for these supplies that will make dorm life livable for them.
Fixing up a new room to make it comfy and with a new look will be an early project. A new room always needs some fixing up before it's livable and it's even likely that it becomes a decorating project. Once things are settled moms are brought into the picture to help out.
Coupled with the throw rug, bed spread and table lamp that needed to be shopped for I saw this as the perfect occasion to send a welcome, a college gift basket, to these college kids. Imagine how delighted all the new roommates will be to receive such a festive token to commemorate a group of young people starting out together in what may turn out to be lasting friendships.
If you have a friend that can recommend a basket maker, you can go with that. But it's just as easy to search the internet for a college gift basket to meet your needs and budget. These gift basket firms will give you an idea of what's trendy and what's available. Searching mail order sites will also offer you options for care packages of your own.
A look around the internet and you will soon be collecting your own ideas for well-liked themes with the dorm set. These could work nicely with a coffee drinkers gift basket theme. Keep a drawer full of novelties and craft tools on hand and it will be easy to add a touch of fun. I always have something like a handmade card, finger puppets or moon pies in my college baskets. It might inspire you to throw in a wind up toy, a cute finger puppet monkey or an etch-a-sketch as a way to put a light spin on things.
You probably have your own memories of homesickness and care packages during those college days. I knew kids who got them as regular as clockwork, the exact same day every week. For me, those college gift baskets helped when funds were tight and made me laugh with some of the funny things mom would tuck away in them. For me that box was home.
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