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Holloween Gift Baskets for Students
2007-09-12 18:27:00
This is a great gift basket for gift for any student preparing for finals, but I would be a little more creative.  I would make the lollipops ghost by using face towels and the granola bars scrawcrows, and make the box look like a haunted house.  Adding a little more Holloween spirit.
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Gift Basket Shipping Tip
2007-09-07 17:12:00
I found tip at giftbasketvillage.com and thought it was great.  I mean, I would think to send a gift basket to a hospital would be a good idea - but I might think about twice about it after reading this tip: Sending Gift Bask et s to a Hospital?  Don’t do it! In general, when people check out of ...
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Running a Gift Basket Business and Holding Down a Job
2007-08-29 16:36:00
I found a great article about how you can get a gift basket business started.  Basket s by Rita got going like this: I began delivering pizzas during the evenings. This provided me with the income I needed and gave me the time to market my business during the day. I only had to work at that ...
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Determining the Size of Your Cellophane Bag
2007-08-29 16:27:00
See, I always thought that the stuff a gift basket has wrapped around it was just like plastic wrap like I have in my kitchen.  Boy was I wrong!  I came across this tip today regarding how to wrap your gift baskets in Cello phane (not plastic wrap)  How do I determine what size of cellophane ...
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Sex in the City Gift Basket
2007-08-23 21:54:00
Know someone that thinks she’s Sara Jessica Parker?  Well this is the gift basket for her.  If you’re 30-something, into apple-tinis and cosmos, metropolitan living and casual sex - then this is what you’ve been waiting for.  A few suggestions however for the true "sex in the city" gift basket: Hot pink pumps 1 gallon of hair ...
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Glowin the the Dark ?B?
2007-08-23 21:28:00
Back in college I had a hippie friend who I called shaggy, like shaggy from scooby doo.  Shaggy, like many hippies in college, loved to ‘toss the b’ or as you and I would say, "throw a frisbee."  Well here’s a little something for you, Shags, a glow in the dark ‘B’ Great things to put ...
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Manly gift basket decorating tip
2007-08-23 20:51:00
I came across this tip recently at homemade-gift-basket-ideas.com.  Its a site that’s chock full of great tips and fanciful clipart.  Yes, clip art.  It’s exciting.  Anyway, here’s the tip. Manly Deco rative Tip:Use loose peanuts in the shell as filler. Place some in the container before adding the beer and other items; then place some more between ...
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Now That?s a teddy bear
2007-08-23 20:41:00
This bear is bad to the bone.  He needs a little teddy bear switch blade though, and maybe some teddy bear cigs rolled up in his sleeve, but other than that, he’s pretty kick a$$.  Here is what I would put in my bad to the bone gift basket: A CD full of kickin’ road music ...
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Sweet Get Well Gift Basket
2007-08-23 20:33:00
I’m am 900% sure that no doctor in their right mind would ever prescribe this gift basket.  Here’s what it’s full of: chocolate band aids fruit flavored gummies chocolate cherries gourmet popcorn cheese sticks chocolate dipped sandwich cookies Bavarian style pretzels lemon drops and more It all comes in a doctor’s bag (really nice touch by the way, i think).  I don’t think I ...
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Great gift basket for a kid
2007-08-22 17:12:00
I was thinking about this new phenomenon among the Childrens called "webkinz".  Arguably the most popular kids toy since Pokemon, webkinz combines the timless cuddliness of a stuffed animal, the online social networking of myspace, and the time and needs management of the ‘tomagatchi’.  It is pretty sweet, and can apparently consume your child’s life ...
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College Gift Basket
2007-08-22 16:59:00
My little sister is going to college this year, making me OLD.  But check out this sweet gift basket I found on the Gift Rap Gift Bask et Blog.  It is the awesome However, it seems to be missing a few key pieces, especially for my sister, who, is going to number 6 party school in the country ...
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My First Post
2007-08-22 16:16:00
Welp, here it is.  My first blog post.  Exciting, no?  I don’t actually know much about gift baskets with exception to the fact that I want to learn more about them, so on this blog I will attempt to do that. Through research and links and, hopefully, your comments, I will attempt to learn all there ...
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