Fruit Gift Basket

Gift-giving has become a billion dollar industry. Whether its gifts for baby showers, weddings, house-warmings, Christmas, Thanksgiving, birthdays, get-well soon gifts – you name it. If there’s an occasion, it calls for a gift. And even if there’s no occasion Hallmark will create one for you to celebrate.

Fruit gift baskets make great gifts for every occasion. Ok, so your 10-year-old niece may not quite appreciate the fruit basket, but we’re sure her parents will! Here are some ways to make your fruit gift basket more exciting and more suitable for the recipient.

Fruit gift basket for your ladylove: This fruit gift basket needs to scream romance. Don’t worry about being over the top – you couldn’t if you tried. Pick a beautiful cane basket and add a red ribbon to the handle. Then, pick out only the choicest of blood red strawberries and add just 12 pieces to the fruit gift basket. The point of romance is in the planning and to make every strawberry count. Along with the strawberries add a bottle of the best champagne you can find and afford and 2 champagne glasses. If you can add some cream to the fruit gift basket, you’ve got it all set. If not, don’t fret. The strawberries and champagne will work its charm.

Fruit gift basket for your boss: This fruit gift basket needs to be very different from the one you planned for your ladylove. Ditch the strawberries and champagne (but of course!) and go with expensive exotic fruit. You need to impress your boss. Add luscious pieces of imported exotic fruits (mangoes, kiwis, passion fruit) to the fruit gift basket. Forget all ribbons and bows. Keep it simple and classic. The expensive fruits will imply you know your boss is worth the best. Once you’ve induced a feel good feeling in him, the same positive vibes will transfer to you as well. Positively Machiavellian isn’t it?

Fruit gift basket for your mom: Throw in whatever you can afford and whatever you know mom loves. She’s your mom – just the fact that you were sweet enough to be thinking of her and bringing her a fruit gift basket is going to reduce her to tears. That’s if you’re one of the lucky ones. If things don’t go your way, it still doesn’t matter what you put in the basket because no matter what you put, mom is going to pin point exactly why it’s not as good as what she buys. Sentimental or nitpicky – you can’t go wrong with mom!

Fruit gift basket for your professor / teacher: Apples, apples and some more apples. You need to polish them all shiny bright red. On a more serious note, a fruit gift basket for your professor or teacher should not be over the top. A medium to small basket, with some fruit in it – if you know your teacher’s favorites go for those. If not, pick a bit of it all. Make sure you’re nowhere close to grading time.

Fruit gift basket for your best friend: Are you kidding? Not in this lifetime unless you want to be friendless very soon after. The only way a fruit gift basket will be a hit with your friends is if all the fruits have been injected with shots of vodka in them. So this is one fruit gift basket that you can let hang.