Gifts that come in baskets tied with a ribbon are wanted even before you know what is inside them. This year give gifts in a basket, but make a variety of basket options to suit your friends and family. Imagine arriving at your family's house at Christmas loaded down with baskets, each filled with something different for each person.

1.A basket of sweets or candy can put a smile on anyone's face! Choose a variety of shapes and sizes, as well as loose sweets and boxed sweets. Try to include familiar favorites and more expensive candy that they would not normally indulge in. You can also add cup cakes or biscuits/cookies.

2. For the health conscious give a basket of fruit, but make it extra special by adding unusual tropical and exotic fruit. You can also add dried fruit and a mixture of nuts. There are so many varieties that you can put together so make it as unusual as possible.

3.Pampering toiletries can be bought in hampers from specialty soap shops, or you can mix and match adding handmade soaps, body creams, peeling, bath salts and bath oils, If you want to add more to it include a towel, bath mitten or bath brush for scrubbing your back.

4. If you are giving a pet as a gift this year, there is no better container for it than a basket. A box has to be left open but a basket can be skillfully tied with a ribbon so that the animal can stick his head out. Make sure when ever you give a pet that it is going to a good home where they want him and will care for him. Always provide some pet food for the first few days so that the new owners won't have to run around looking for a pet store.

5. A garden basket is a great gift for those who love to be outdoors. Oprah had one of these on her show a while back You can include gardening gloves, seeds, bulbs, a small spade and hand rake, even a kneeling pad for those hours spent tending the plants. You can embellish the gift with a sun hat, and even garden boots!

In fact whatever area of interest you choose it is possible to put together a gift basket, it could be cooking or fishing, toys, dolls or books. What makes a basket successful is if it contains many items, so that it seems like a bottomless basket, of endless interesting bits and pieces but all related by a similar theme. So much more interesting that the standard wrapped boxes that are given year after year. Not only that but the baskets are reusable and so a gift in themselves.

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