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A hamper to pamper their taste buds | Retro Sweet Hampers from GettingPersonal.co.uk

5 August 2009

It can be difficult continually coming up with innovative and unique gift ideas, even for those friends and family members that you know best of all. You want to give them something special that is just perfect for them and shows how special they are to you so you try to avoid anything too impersonal like t-shirts or wine. At the same time it is nice to choose something fun that they would be unlikely to ever buy for themselves. Tasty treats to eat and share therefore make particularly good gifts because they are great fun and you can be pretty sure the recipient would not have treated themselves had they not received your present.

A unique and personalised present for anyone is a tasty hamper, filled with their favourite treats. You can buy these pre-packed or for an even more personal touch you could create your own by filling a large box with all the things you know the love but rarely splash out on themselves. For anyone with a fondness for sweets, the perfect gift for a special birthday might be a retro sweet hamper, filled with all the things they loved most in their youth.

Retro Sweet Hamper

Packed full of all the tastiest treats from days gone by, a retro sweet hamper will delight anyone that grew up in the 70s, 80s or 90s. The brightly coloured contents are sure to rekindle all sorts of lost memories of those happy carefree days of childhood. From the tubes of Love Hearts to the pastel rainbow of Candy Necklaces, retro sweet hampers are full of all of the best sweets and candies from your childhood.

Much more than just a tasty gift, a retro sweet hamper makes a great talking point at birthday parties or if you give it as a gift, the lucky recipient can use it as a great excuse to get his or friends round for a fun night in full of shared memories, experiences and tales from the old days. There is something about discovering a common history that really creates bonds between people so a retro sweet hamper is ideal for getting strangers talking and laughing together. If you are throwing a birthday party for yourself or someone close to you and the invitation list covers a broad range of social groups, then a retro sweet hamper might be just the focus you need to break the ice.

They Don't Make Them Like They Used To

The best parties focus on a central theme and with one or two retro sweet hampers in the middle of the room you will find the perfect theme – the good old days. Why not organise the whole party around the retro theme and play only the best old school music, make everyone dress up in the fashions of the day, ideally in their own old clothes for the most amusing effects, and play all those great party games you remember from when you were a kid. You could serve sausage rolls and jelly and ice-cream alongside the contents of your retro sweet hamper and maybe even hire a clown to perform magic tricks.

Once the shared memories of tasty treats from childhood have broken the ice, you will find that your guests should be much more relaxed and people that started the night as perfect strangers will be chatting away like old friends. But even if you are not planning a party but just looking for a gift for someone special, the retro theme also works well for presents too. As well as a retro sweet hamper to share with friends, you could also give them a CD of the music they loved as a teenager or perhaps a photograph album filled with pictures of their friends over the years. Everyone likes to reminisce about the good old days every once in a while and just creating the time and space for someone to do that will be a wonderful gift.

Taking the time to plan and prepare a special gift that sparks off memories of the past and reminds them of the simple joys of childhood, whether it is a retro sweet hamper or a DVD of their favourite cartoon, is a wonderful idea because it is much more than just the item itself. Once the hamper is empty or the cartoons over, your gift will continue to summon up happy thoughts for a long time to come. So next time you are looking for a gift for someone special, instead of thinking about what they might do with whatever you give them, spend a little time thinking about how you would like them to feel when they open it up and try to create that special feeling with a personalised gift that comes from the heart.



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