SENIOR CITIZEN'S BASKET IDEA

Container Ideas:

• Bed table

• Book bag

• Fireside basket

• Flat basket

• Magazine rack

• Oval wire basket

• Storage box

• Tupperware-style containers (stack up several into a “tower”)

• Wooden basket
   

Content Suggestions:

• Bottled fruit juice

• Cans of their favorite soups

• Card showing donation to a charitable organization in their name

• Coffee

• Comb and brush

• Coupon holder (empty or filled with grocery coupons)

• Day-of-the-week pill holder

• Dried fruits

• Fresh fruit

• Gift certificate to a restaurant

• Large print book

• Laundry soap

• Magazine (with or without gift subscription)

• Mints

• Noodle mixes

• Nuts

• Old family photo restored and framed

• Photo album or frame (with pictures of family included)

• Razor

• Robe and slippers

• Shaving cream

• Soap

• Socks

• Soup mixes

• Specialty coffees or teas

• Spring water

• Stationary and envelopes (with stamps)

• Ticket to local attraction or event
   

Decorating Possibilities:

• Line the bottom of the basket with a piece of Victorian lace or a doily.

• Add some silk flowers to the inside or outside of the basket.

• Simple and inexpensive: Wrap a box of stationary and a pretty pen together with a ribbon.  Add a package of stamps.

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