Gift for host family

Posted: Thu, Jul 17 2008, 11:09 am Post subject: gift for host family

We are going away for Shabbos and staying in a family's home we don't know. Any ideas on a good gift for them? Anything other than the usual nicely wrapped chocolates in a nice dish.

Executive Member Joined: Jun 04 2008 Posts: 375

well I once got a very nice tea set many different flavors of tea in a beautiful box and some cups to it.
or I once had someone over for shabbos they brought me a nice glass vase with flowers it was very nice and thoughtful.

Gold Member Joined: Jun 08 2007 Posts: 1333

hand towels, soaps for a bathroom, you can have a flower arrangement sent to their home, if they have young children maybe a new board game, a pretty havdala candle.....

Diamond Member Joined: Nov 11 2007 Posts: 3794

I love when guests send flowers. Arranged flowers from the florist are pricey and not something I would splurge for myself, but they do make the whole shabbos atmosphere feel so special.

Any type of nice serving piece makes a good hostess gift too (I.e. a platter, cake plate, salad servers or cake knife with fancy handles, etc.) though it's harder when you don't know the person's taste.

Posted: Thu, Jul 17 2008, 1:41 pm Post subject: re: gift for host family

I hate when people bring me chocolates(of course they dont know this)or any type of nosh.

I think a nice gift is probably a good bottle of wine,or a tea set as someone already described,negger vassar w/hand towel is nice. flowers are iffy,what if they look better than what her dh usually gets her?we once brought someone a full vase of flowers and she said,"I have never received such beautiful flowers before....her dh just had brought her home some flowers. ours got center stage.we felt uncomfortable the whole shabbos.the look on her dh's face when he saw the arrangement we brought Embarassed

it should be something for the whole household to partake of.
a game for the children means they will bug the parents how to play it...erev shabbos,and probably extra work for eemaa to clean up later

Posted: Thu, Jul 17 2008, 2:14 pm Post subject: re: gift for host family

great ideas guys, thanks. I also dislike the chocolate/dried fruit stuff. I ended up getting a very nice, simple hand towel and soaps in an elegant glass vase. Something I would enjoy, yet very neutral in color and style.

Posted: Thu, Jul 17 2008, 3:32 pm Post subject: re: gift for host family

shif that sounds very nice and thoughtful!!!
I hope u enjoyed your stay!come to me anytime,especially since we are on the same wave length about gifts Wink

Gold Member Joined: Jan 27 2008 Posts: 1203

I have given and recieved table cloths, fancier ones and week day ones, always found it accepted and enjoyed/

Gold Member Joined: May 24 2006 Posts: 1527

I recently gave a recipe book about cupcakes, soem cupcake paper cups with patterns on them and 4 different types of sprinkles to decorate. I wrappedit all with cellophane and a nice bow. The family has 4 girls who love to bake and they really liked it.

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