A College Gift Basket: This Parent Shares Her Tips

I've always believed 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. This is a family milestone that has everyone emotionally involved. 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 teens and all their personal belongings are pulling up to college campuses to transfer everything to a room 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 pleasant and with a new look will be an early project. Once all the roommates get familiar they can group their ideas and resources and get down to mapping out how to decorate their new space. Once things are settled moms are brought into the picture to help out.

Along with the throw rug, bed spread and table lamp that needed to be shopped for I saw this as the perfect opportunity to send a welcome, a college gift basket, to these college kids. Imagine how pleased 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 gift basket supplier, you've used before, that's good. But it's just as easy to search the internet for a college gift basket to suit your needs and price range. Keep an eye out for what is trendy, which could be a simple movie night theme or a wholesome basket of fruits and cheeses. Searching mail order sites will also provide you tips for care packages of your own.

Your own gift baskets can be an inexpensive experience by cutting up old magazines for handmade cards. These could work nicely with a coffee buffs gift basket theme. A suggestion that was passed on to me was by a mom who said she always kept a drawer of dime store novelties available. 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.

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 provided a psychological link with home that I still recall.

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