A College Gift Basket: One Parent Gives Her Ideas



I've always imagined that giving someone a gift or gift basket was a pretty good way to celebrate a special occasion. 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. No amount of preparation is complete when the time comes to leave the nest but for mom and dad it sure is the beginning of a brand new chapter.

And at that time of the year, cars full of teenagers and all their personal belongings are pulling up to college campuses to transfer everything to a living space that will be their new home. It makes for a long day but it all gets done somehow. This why care packages were invented. And what follows, soon after, is a stream of care packages filled with urgently needed items.

Fixing up a new room to make it suitable and with a new look will be an early project. Once all the roommates get to know each other they can combine their ideas and resources and get down to mapping out how to spruce up their new space. 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 chance to send a welcome, a college gift basket, to these college kids. I was glad I did, it was a big icebreaker for a group of young people who might be about to begin lasting friendships.

If you have a gift basket provider, you've used before, that's good. But it's just as easy to search the internet for a college gift basket to fit your needs and price range. Keep an eye out for what is best-selling, which could be a simple movie night theme or a healthful basket of fruits and cheeses. Checking mail order sites will also offer you options for care packages of your own.

Your own gift baskets can be an economical experience by cutting up old magazines for handmade cards. These could work nicely with a coffee drinkers gift basket theme. A tip that was passed on to me was by a mom who said she always kept a drawer of dime store novelties around. When putting together a college basket, I recall she always had something fun lurking amid the practical things that she mailed. Having a drawer of stuff ready will probably give you wacky ideas that you will be able to put to use.

Any college grad can tell you how important care packages were in those campus years. It could have been college gift baskets to combat the college blues or a just-in-time basket to celebrate high marks on an exam. Many of these gift baskets sent to me in college were really just small boxes, with a few things, but to me they offered a psychological link with home that I still recall.

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