best ideas for housewarming gifts?

miss.myra · #1 (**permalink**) Mar 23, 06

well?!

hardstylin · #2 (**permalink**) Mar 23, 06

hookers and blow.

Disco_Whore · #3 (**permalink**) Mar 23, 06

A nice mirror! Seriously, they brighten up any room, and make it appear larger. Especially if you can find one with a really nice frame that goes with that person's style.

Senior · #4 (**permalink**) Mar 23, 06

A nice bottle of hard bar or wine. Nothing like having a bottle of Scotch around the house but it's something a lot of people don't choose to afford. I mean who really wants new plates?

#5 (**permalink**) Mar 23, 06

As lame as it sounds.... a gift cert to Home Depot. People who move into new homes always need stuff for fixing up, and it is super duper expensive.

Senior · #6 (**permalink**) Mar 23, 06

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Originally Posted by hardstylin

hookers and blow.

Isn't that more house wrecker than house warmer?

Senior · #7 (**permalink**) Mar 23, 06

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Originally Posted by Avana

As lame as it sounds.... a gift cert to Home Depot. People who move into new homes always need stuff for fixing up, and it is super duper expensive.

It does sound lame, I say leave this one for Mom or Dad.

bebu*funfun · #8 (**permalink**) Mar 23, 06

a door mat! lol i want a new door mat...
i would straight up ask them what they need.. cuz it could be as simple as cutlery or cheap ikea stuff. gift cert to ikea, home store (the homewerks place on davie is amazing) would be ideal as well!

cinist · #9 (**permalink**) Mar 23, 06

kitten

miss.myra · #10 (**permalink**) Mar 23, 06

^ haha aww bebu, we don't even have a door mat here! I wonder where you can find cute ones?

Chewy · #11 (**permalink**) Mar 23, 06

well. the best thing i could think of would be a gift certificate, that way they can buy what need, and not recieve something that they might already have or not need at the time.. But if you want to be more personal and would like to get them something i would say maybe ....... uhhh....... ummm.... a gift certificate.. sorry im no good at this

#12 (**permalink**) Mar 23, 06

gift certificate always is best.. they know what they need more then anyone..

bebu*funfun · #13 (**permalink**) Mar 23, 06

homewerks has a doormat ive been eyeing on..but it costs 40 bucks.. too much for something im gonna step on.

Senior · #14 (**permalink**) Mar 23, 06

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Originally Posted by alla

gift certificate always is best.. they know what they need more then anyone..

The thing about a gift though is that it doesn't have to be practical. People will go and buy what they need, a nice gift is often something they want.

miss.myra · #15 (**permalink**) Mar 23, 06

yah not really about gift certificates because i want it to be personal..i guess i am thinking about something that everyone wants and needs but wouldn't ask for or think about getting themselves you know?

#16 (**permalink**) Mar 23, 06

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Originally Posted by Senior

It does sound lame, I say leave this one for Mom or Dad.

I went to a house warming this past weekend. My friend just bought a loft. They had to repaint the place, and she had happened to mention how expensive just setting it up was.

For a gift I got her....

A glade thingy to help get rid of the paint smell that smelled like vanilla.
2 Gift Certificates to Home Depot.
1 Magazine on how to organize small spaces.

She was thrilled to tears.

Senior · #17 (**permalink**) Mar 23, 06

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Originally Posted by miss.myra

yah not really about gift certificates because i want it to be personal..i guess i am thinking about something that everyone wants and needs but wouldn't ask for or think about getting themselves you know?

My Mom just moved into a small apartment and had to get rid of a lot of really nice plants that took up way to much space. So I bought her a banzai tree. Maybe something along those lines???? Where are they coming from and where are they going? Maybe art work? Develop some pictures and frame them?

hardstylin · #18 (**permalink**) Mar 23, 06

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Originally Posted by miss.myra

yah not really about gift certificates because i want it to be personal..i guess i am thinking about something that everyone wants and needs but wouldn't ask for or think about getting themselves you know?

Miss myra please give my post a once over, I think my idea fits your discription like a glove.

Gusto · #19 (**permalink**) Mar 23, 06

plants or pictures
towels / shower curtain / bath matt
coffee maker or other small appliances

kinda depends what they have already, best thing to do is stalk them for a bit and look through their shit.

FeelGood · #20 (**permalink**) Mar 23, 06

best house warming gift.

ebbomega · #21 (**permalink**) Mar 23, 06

Dare I say, things for the home?

Photography, paintings, good coffee table book....

inside · #22 (**permalink**) Mar 23, 06

A new bong!

Bitchin · #23 (**permalink**) Mar 23, 06

gift certificates... definately.

tho I do find them a lil'more impersonal.

but its stuff for ones house, and everyone has thier own taste.

LLaaUUrrYYn · #24 (**permalink**) Mar 24, 06

My friend just bought a house..and I wanted to get her a more personal gift..sooooo being that im crafty mccrafterson.. I got her a memory box to hang on her wall..and scrapbooked a page of pictures of her and I and put inside. The good thing about it is that she can take the page out and put whatever she wants in it if it isnt exactly her style.

I also bought a vase and then picked out some funky coloured stones and little fake plant and a fighter fish to go in it. And then I bought a plant and washed all the dirt off the roots and put it on top of the vase so that the roots are in the water. Apparently fish thrive in that environment..its easy to manage..and its pretty!

Good luck =D

-evil-duerr- · #25 (**permalink**) Mar 24, 06

some good hash and a chocolate cake or strawberry-rubarb pie.