Host Gift Ideas for the Home
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We have a nickname for the 4 weeks before Christmas: Partymonium.
With all of the dinners, parties, friend gatherings, and gift exchange festivities that happen in December, it really is a crammed calendar of pandemonium. And for each one, we never show up empty-handed.
A lot of times, we’ll get an invite last minute to a gathering or we’ll remember literally hours before, “Oh! We have that thing to go to!”
So I keep a few host and hostess gifts on hand for such an occasion. (And if we end up not gifting the items, I might keep them for myself… don’t tell, okay?)
These are a few of my favorite host gift ideas to give (or keep).
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Free or Almost Free Host Gift Ideas
- Propagate one of your houseplants and plant it in a small pot to give.
- Make a cutting board out of scrap wood.
- Bake a batch of cookies and gift them in a tin or mason jar.
- Make homemade vanilla extract in a pressure cooker.
- Raid your wine/liquor cabinet and see if there’s a nice bottle you can gift instead of using yourself.
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