Giving a simple gift
When we are invited to the home of a friend or associate for a meal or a friendly gathering, we always try to abide by the rule of etiquette that tells us to bring a hostess gift as a preemptive thank you for the time and energy that was put into the event. Likewise, when we are looking for a small token of our affection, and we literally do not have the time (and we have been caught with a cleaned out ready made gifts stash) we turn to flowers. We find that garden gifts (flowers, plants and particularly growing herbs) are the perfect all encompassing never seems to fail gift.
The trick with flowers is that we always try to incorporate a container with the flower gift! If you are giving flowers as a thank you for the entertainment of an evening, in all honesty, the last thing your hostess will have time to do is dig out a vase and arrange your flowers. Therefore, if you take five minutes and five dollars and purchase yourself a handy-dandy kitchen tool that can serve a double duty (such as this drink shaker), you will find your gift will be all the more appreciated, as it is beautiful, ready for immediate enjoyment with no fuss and no muss and it serves a functional purpose after the flowers are long gone.
If you are not yet in the habit of taking small gifts as thanks to occasions, try doing this just once this week to see the reaction. Maybe take a live potted herb to lunch with you as a thank you to your best friend. Or a small gathering of cut herbs with a single rose (oh, wouldn’t that smell fantastic?) as a simple “I just wanted you to know you are wonderful” gift for someone special, maybe your neighbor? Hopefully the reaction will reinforce that there really can more happiness in giving than there is in receiving.
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