Saturday, October 10, 2009

Halloween Gift Baskets

There’s still time to send Halloween gift baskets. And now is the perfect time to find spook-tacular deals on them! Some include free shipping, such as the Pirate’s Booty Halloween Gift Basket, a great autumn care package for the college student. Packed into this ‘treasure chest’ are three bottles of Jack Black root beer, Ghirardelli chocolates, smoked almonds, mixed nuts, crunchie munchies, and assorted favorites in candy bars.

Other specials currently available are: Brainiac Halloween Gift Basket for Tween Boy and Sketchy Halloween Fun Gift Basket for Tween Girl.

The Brainiac Gift Basket comes with a felt Halloween light-up Jack-o-Lantern tote bag. It is filled with Happy Haunting Orange Hot Chocolate, Jelly Belly Deluxe Halloween Mix, Too Good Gourmet ‘Little Ghost Fun’ Chocolate Cookies, Zesty White Cheddar Popcorn, and Pretzel Pete’s Peanut Butter Filled Pretzels. Also included is The Brainiest Insaniest Ultimate Puzzle Book, which is a bonanza of mazes, word games, visual and logic puzzles, and more.

For the ‘tween’ girl in your life, the Sketchy Halloween Fun Gift Basket is a unique gift idea that features The Artist in Me, How to Draw Like Nobody Else, a book to help her develop her talent, improve her skills and discover how to express herself as only she can. The book is packed with three drawing pencils, a color wheel, a kneaded eraser, vine charcoal, oil pastels, charcoal drawing paper, and more. Also included: Jelly Belly Deluxe Halloween Mix, Too Good Gourmet ‘Little Bat Fun’ Snickerdoodle Cookies, Happy Haunting Hot Chocolate, and more. All is witch-ly packaged in a Trendy Spider Web Bag with Maribou Trim.

Or treat your favorite gourmet with a gourmet foods gift basket, a good choice for any occasion. Now at a discount is the Warm Sentiments Gourmet Food Gift Basket. This gift basket includes Cabernet Wine Cheese, Chardonnay Wine Cheese, Foccacia Crisp Crackers, premium Smoked Salmon, decadent Chocolate Truffles, English Toffee Cookie drenched in chocolate, Victorian Tea Cookies, Too Good Cookies, Apricot Medley Tea, and Enli-Tea-Ments Spring Tea. All this is packed into a basket that is ‘carefully hand crafted with flowers and ribbons.’ A gift message can be personalized to convey your feelings for your gourmet food loving recipient.

No tricks, just treats!

Thank You Gift Baskets

Don’t just count your blessings this year, merely reflecting on how thankful you are for those special people in your life. Let them know what a blessing they’ve been. Surprise them with a unique gift basket, chosen with their particular interests or tastes in mind.

Is there an avid golfer on your list? A book lover? A movie lover? An avid sports fan? A gourmet? A coffee lover? An executive? A handyman or do-it-yourselfer? A gardener? A college student?

There are gift baskets for everyone. You may also select personalized gift baskets.

Particularly if you live far away and will be unable to be there for Thanksgiving, send a Hugs for Mom gift basket. Or send a coffee gift basket and plan a special visit to share a cup with them. Perhaps a breakfast gift basket? A cookie gift basket?

Or simply choose a thank you gift basket for those who have been, and continue to be, a blessing.

Gift Basket Suggestions

For special occasions, holidays, or any day, gift baskets are a wonderful way of telling someone how much you care. There are gift baskets for women, for men, even for kids. There are birthday gift baskets, Valentine’s Day gift baskets, Mother’s Day gift baskets, Father’s Day gift baskets, anniversary gift baskets, wedding gift baskets, housewarming gift baskets, new baby gift baskets, congratulations gift baskets….

Gift baskets specifically for those occasions are available. Or you may want to choose a gift basket filled with the recipient’s favorite foods or snacks. Choose from offerings of candies, coffees, gourmet foods, Italian foods (even pasta in particular), kosher foods, healthy foods, sugar-free foods….

Perhaps Mom would love a spa gift basket. Make her feel pampered. Is Dad a sports fan? Share his enthusiasm. Anyone on your list love to watch movies? Send them a gift basket filled with popcorn and samplings of candies and snacks typically sold at the movie theaters for a night-at-the-movies at home.

There doesn’t have to be a special occasion or special reason to let someone know you care. When words are not enough, a unique gift basket, thoughtfully chosen, says it for you.