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Housewarming & thank you gift ideas...?

Bubblegum5586Bubblegum5586 member
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Do you give housewarming gifts for when people move or just when they buy a house?

We have a couple that we are both friends with that lived in our apartment building with us for a few years. They were new to the area as they were from 4 hours away. Unfortunately we didn't get close with them until 5 months before we bought our house and then we moved 30 min away. We still got together a lot and our friendship grew. They recently moved and are now 2 hours from us. We are visiting them at their place for the first time. I want to bring a housewarming gift but is that strange for a move from 1 apartment to another? Also - any suggestions? They are getting married in June and I looked at their registry and most is more then what I planned on a housewarming gift... We got a few GREAT shots of us in Cancun (the guys both worked for the company that took us there) and she has lots of pictures with friends and family around their (last) place, Maybe a nice frame with a picture... I feel like I need more then that.


Next question! H and I went to San Francisco area a few weeks ago and visited and stayed with some friends (my friend from middle school and her husband). We stayed with them for 4 nights (including 1 night at a hotel they paid for!) plus they drove us everywhere (San Francisco, Muir Woods, Napa, Sonoma, Palo Alto, Santa Cruz...) and were amazing tour guides taking us so many places in just a few days! I want to do something nice but I am at a lost as I would have to ship it. A thank you card is a must but would love to do something more. While we were there my friend was saying how she wishes she could decorate more but doesn't want to do anything too much as they likely wont stay at this apartment much longer. So my thought was to get one of those nice canvas (11x14) made up of a picture from the trip of the 4 of us in front of a giant redwood. Or is that weird to give a gift that is a picture of you?

TL:DR is it weird to give a gift that is a picture of you (with the other person)?

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  • labrolabro member
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    1. I'd do the picture and a nice bottle of wine. I don't normally go crazy with housewarming gifts though.

    2. I don't really like the idea of a big canvas print of you and your friends. The first gift of a small framed picture seems better. My first thought was if you learned what their favorite restaurant was in the area you could always send them a gift card there for an evening out as a thank you. OR you could send a giftcard to a home decor store that you know they like. I personally don't like it when people buy me home decorating items because it may not necessarily fit in with everything else, and I don't think I'd really be ecstatic over a large 11x14 canvas print of me and some friends either. I love my friends....but not so much that I want a giant photo of them.



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  • littlepeplittlepep member
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    For the couple in the apartment, I would do some wine if the drink. Or maybe a nice candle or something. 

    For the thank you gift, I'd probably do a thank you card and either a restaurant gift card or maybe to a store where they can get some decor items. 
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  • theartistformerlyknownastheartistformerlyknownas member
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    That was definitely TL/DR.

    Something small and consumable that you know they'd like is good for a housewarming gift. Wine, a nice candle, or a gift card to a place nearby.

    I would not hang a canvas print of my friends in my home. A 4x6 framed picture that I can set on a shelf somewhere (and reuse the frame with another picture down the road), sure. Nothing on the wall, and not a canvas print.
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  • Bubblegum5586Bubblegum5586 member
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    I was questionable on the canvas print so thanks for the heads up that it would unlikely be welcomed! 11x14 sounds huge, but we did get one for my sisters BF this year (a pretty lake picture with him going off the rope swing in the distance) and I was shocked at how small the 11x14 looked in person.

    Thanks for the suggestions... as usual I was way over thinking it!
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  • novella1186novella1186 member
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    I agree with PP. Bottle of wine for visiting the friends in the new apartment. 
    Gift card, or have flowers delivered with a thank-you card for the friends in CA. 
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  • jenna8984jenna8984 member
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    I like novella's idea about sending flowers. Made me remember sending food! My grandparents always send me a package from Harry & David with pears and nuts and I love it. And when my friends on the other side of the country have babies and stuff, I send them a package from Chukar Cherries. They make all chocolate covered cherries and nuts which are frigen delicious.

     

                                                                     

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  • knottie9c5ed33df4bbd226knottie9c5ed33df4bbd226 member
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    When we moved into our house (first house ever), our friends sent us Mrs. Field's cookies. People who came to see it brought wine, candles, gift cards, etc.
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  • southernbelle0915southernbelle0915 mod
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    I stick with consumables and a nice card. Alcohol, cheese, goody basket, etc.

    Picture frames and other decor might not match their current stuff or whatever they may have in mind. Yet, they'll feel obligated to put it up because it was a gift. I try to steer clear of "stuff" for that reason.
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