A Coffee Gift Idea

Are you tired of receiving the same kinds of gifts over and over again? One quotation says --- It is better to give than to receive. Now is the time for you make a difference. Go and pack a unique gift for someone very dear to you.

There are many ways by which you can stuff your gifts. Usually, gifts are packed in boxes, paper bags, paper or tinsel wrappers, pail, baskets while some just give it as it is. Don't you feel overwhelmed when someone gives you a present? I'm sure you'll be very thankful for that person, especially when you received the gift of your choice.

Some people give gifts during birthdays, Christmas, New Year, anniversaries, weddings, baby showers, house blessing, graduation, baptismal and many others.

It has already been a custom, that people give gifts whenever there's an occasion. But is a special occasion really necessary, before you decide to give? It will cause someone to thank you if you give him/her a present in ordinary days. You can give to show someone your appreciation.

There are several ideas by which you can be creative in packing your gifts. Use your imaginations. Be inventive and artistic. For coffee lovers, a basket full of assorted coffee would be a good choice. You can mix and match roasted coffee with instant ones. You can also include cups and saucers and mugs too.

Coffee gift basket could be a pleasant gift for all occasions. It would be great for couples, as well as for small and large groups. Since break time is coffee time, this gift would surely promote sharing of thoughts and ideas during meetings and small gatherings.

Gift baskets are readily made and available for order and immediate purchase in coffee stores. However, you can do it yourself for a more artistic touch of your hand. In case, you don't have time doing so, the internet is there to accompany you to the well-known coffee basket dealers.

With a little research and some initiative you can get great coffee and arrange for it to be packed in a gift basket with other coffee related items, even some mugs or an espresso machine, and create a wonderful coffee gift basket. If you know the people who you are buying to coffee for you can take advantage of that and get them things you know they like, or things you think they will particularly enjoy.

Celia Namart an avid traveler has collected her thoughts and ideas during her many travels around the world. A recent discovery is the option of using coffee as a great gift idea, read about how to setup a great Coffee Gift Basket as a surprise for your friends and family.

Coffee Gift Basket

Coffee, Anyone?

Who, in their lifetime, hasn't popped into a coffee shop to meet friends and loved ones, and after spending an hour or two drinking and gossiping, popped out again no worse for the experience?

Most of us.

But there have been times in the history of mankind, when the drinking of coffee meant a difference between getting that girl of your dreams and not getting her.

In the cold land of Lapp, in the month of January or February, the Lapp people had a habit of gathering together at one of those Fairs to make their last purchases before meeting again the next year.

But while the older folks where busy buying the odd reindeer or two, the young men were more happily engaged in checking out the female talents, for since time immemorial Fairs where always a great recreational grounds for matrimonial stakes.

When a Lapp boy hit upon the girl that suited him, it was usually the custom for the girl's family to invite him to their tent where, after sitting quietly for a while, the boy would ask if anyone would like a cup of coffee.

Immediately cups and saucers, together with the coffee pot and all other accoutrements needed for the brewing of coffee, would be produced by the girl's family, and the boy would set to. This was not your instant coffee time. You couldn't just say ‘one spoonful or two?' This was brewing your coffee; and not on an electric stove, either. It was usually boiling over an open fire at worst, and on top of a wood stove at best. But in any case, it was not the even temperature of the regulated form. It was very much in the lap of Vulcan, God of Fire. And as all other Gods agreed, not only did he have a fiery disposition, he wasn't particularly nice either.

However, whatever the temperature, sooner or later cups of hot coffee would be produced and placed in front of the waiting family. What would happen next would seal the lad's future.

If the coffee was drunk, the lad was deemed to be engaged and well on his way to be married. If the coffee remained untouched, the courtship was over before it had begun. The would-be groom might as well pack up his bags and return to the Fair, for there was nothing for him in this particular tent.

He would just have to try his luck with someone else, and hopefully his coffee-making skills would have improved enough for him to be more successful with his courtship the next time round. No feedback whatever. Was it too weak? Was it too strong? Was the coffee not brewed enough? Had he been clumsy? He would never be actually told what he had done wrong.