""Soiree"" gifts ???? - Page 2

Iwantcoffee · ‎03-11-2010

@gidgetgh wrote:
I'd bring something, but I have no idea what. Just speaking for me personally, but I'd never take wine unless I knew for sure that they drink. A bottle of wine would go to waste at our house. My husband drinks beer only and if I have one margarita every 5 years or so, that's a lot.

I honestly don't know what I'd bring. A nice box of cookies maybe? If you know they're coffee drinkers, maybe some really nice coffee???

I would not take wine either, especially to a pastor. unless I knew they drank and liked wine. In the church I grew-up in drinking was a no-no.

sunshine45 · ‎03-09-2010

you can make your own gourmet gift basket.

bottle of wine

box of chocolates

take a plant/floral arrangement or have one sent on that day

a beautiful coffee table book....maybe you know some of their interests?

vase, candy dish, small crystal bowl

a basket or box filled with a few soaps, lotions, bath products

tea towels for their kitchen

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Mominohio · ‎08-08-2010

@sunshine45 wrote:
you can make your own gourmet gift basket.
bottle of wine
box of chocolates
take a plant/floral arrangement or have one sent on that day
a beautiful coffee table book....maybe you know some of their interests?
vase, candy dish, small crystal bowl
a basket or box filled with a few soaps, lotions, bath products
tea towels for their kitchen

@sunshine45

The tea towel idea is a great one, and universal. I used to make up gift baskets every Christmas with pretty and higher end tea towels as gifts for those that I wanted to gift something to, but weren't part of my regular Christmas list (like teachers, my son's girlfriend's mom etc).

Everyone who has a kitchen can use towels, and they can be chosen very neutral or specific to the season or holiday one is invited to. Even people who don't cook much still need a kitchen towel and I think they make really easy and useful gifts.

I'm in that stage where I like to receive and give things that are useful, and can be used up (too many 'things' in my life already).

RazorSharp · ‎02-20-2016

@Iwantcoffee wrote:
@gidgetgh wrote:
I'd bring something, but I have no idea what. Just speaking for me personally, but I'd never take wine unless I knew for sure that they drink. A bottle of wine would go to waste at our house. My husband drinks beer only and if I have one margarita every 5 years or so, that's a lot.

I honestly don't know what I'd bring. A nice box of cookies maybe? If you know they're coffee drinkers, maybe some really nice coffee???
I would not take wine either, especially to a pastor. unless I knew they drank and liked wine. In the church I grew-up in drinking was a no-no.

1) The appropriate gift to bring to a host or hostess is either wine or flowers. 2) Jesus turned water into wine, so no religious person sholud be offended by that offering.

Mominohio · ‎08-08-2010

@RazorSharp wrote:
@Iwantcoffee wrote:
@gidgetgh wrote:
I'd bring something, but I have no idea what. Just speaking for me personally, but I'd never take wine unless I knew for sure that they drink. A bottle of wine would go to waste at our house. My husband drinks beer only and if I have one margarita every 5 years or so, that's a lot.

I honestly don't know what I'd bring. A nice box of cookies maybe? If you know they're coffee drinkers, maybe some really nice coffee???
I would not take wine either, especially to a pastor. unless I knew they drank and liked wine. In the church I grew-up in drinking was a no-no.
1) The appropriate gift to bring to a host or hostess is either wine or flowers. 2) Jesus turned water into wine, so no religious person sholud be offended by that offering.

Sorry, but there are many who don't drink, inside and outside the Christian community, and I'd especially never take wine to someone of faith, unless I was sure that they did indeed drink.

One would look incredibly foolish to take wine to a pastor's home, if they indeed, did not partake.

RazorSharp · ‎02-20-2016

@Mominohio wrote:
@RazorSharp wrote:
@Iwantcoffee wrote:
@gidgetgh wrote:
I'd bring something, but I have no idea what. Just speaking for me personally, but I'd never take wine unless I knew for sure that they drink. A bottle of wine would go to waste at our house. My husband drinks beer only and if I have one margarita every 5 years or so, that's a lot.

I honestly don't know what I'd bring. A nice box of cookies maybe? If you know they're coffee drinkers, maybe some really nice coffee???
I would not take wine either, especially to a pastor. unless I knew they drank and liked wine. In the church I grew-up in drinking was a no-no.
1) The appropriate gift to bring to a host or hostess is either wine or flowers. 2) Jesus turned water into wine, so no religious person sholud be offended by that offering.
Sorry, but there are many who don't drink, inside and outside the Christian community, and I'd especially never take wine to someone of faith, unless I was sure that they did indeed drink.

One would look incredibly foolish to take wine to a pastor's home, if they indeed, did not partake.

Of course you shouldn't take wine to someone's house if you know they don't drink. However, if you aren't sure one way or another, there's nothing wrong with taking wine. What if you took flowers, and they happened to be allergic those flowers, or you took a box of cookies, and they're diabetic? If the host has any sense of grace, they'll appreciate your gift and move on. It's wine, people, not devil's juice.

gidgetgh · ‎03-09-2010

@RazorSharp wrote:
@Iwantcoffee wrote:
@gidgetgh wrote:
I'd bring something, but I have no idea what. Just speaking for me personally, but I'd never take wine unless I knew for sure that they drink. A bottle of wine would go to waste at our house. My husband drinks beer only and if I have one margarita every 5 years or so, that's a lot.

I honestly don't know what I'd bring. A nice box of cookies maybe? If you know they're coffee drinkers, maybe some really nice coffee???
I would not take wine either, especially to a pastor. unless I knew they drank and liked wine. In the church I grew-up in drinking was a no-no.
1) The appropriate gift to bring to a host or hostess is either wine or flowers. 2) Jesus turned water into wine, so no religious person sholud be offended by that offering.

Its not appropriate if you don't drink. It's a waste of money. I wouldn't be offended if someone brought me a bottle of wine, but I'd either give it away or throw it away. I don't have anything against drinking. Wine makes me wheeze and the occasional margarita, which I love, gives me a headache so I just don't usually bother with it.

Why is it, when I have a 50/50 guess at something, I'm always 100% wrong?

RazorSharp · ‎02-20-2016

@gidgetgh wrote:
@RazorSharp wrote:
@Iwantcoffee wrote:
@gidgetgh wrote:
I'd bring something, but I have no idea what. Just speaking for me personally, but I'd never take wine unless I knew for sure that they drink. A bottle of wine would go to waste at our house. My husband drinks beer only and if I have one margarita every 5 years or so, that's a lot.

I honestly don't know what I'd bring. A nice box of cookies maybe? If you know they're coffee drinkers, maybe some really nice coffee???
I would not take wine either, especially to a pastor. unless I knew they drank and liked wine. In the church I grew-up in drinking was a no-no.
1) The appropriate gift to bring to a host or hostess is either wine or flowers. 2) Jesus turned water into wine, so no religious person sholud be offended by that offering.

Its not appropriate if you don't drink. It's a waste of money. I wouldn't be offended if someone brought me a bottle of wine, but I'd either give it away or throw it away. I don't have anything against drinking. Wine makes me wheeze and the occasional margarita, which I love, gives me a headache so I just don't usually bother with it.

No one said you should take wine to a host who you know doesn't drink.

Tigriss · ‎03-12-2010

I suggest a bouquet of flowers to grace their table. There is nothing like beautiful flowers that you don't have to continue to tend to unless you know they are gardeners or love house plants.

Another option would be to get a gift certificate for a mani/pedi for them.

Unless they like wine, I would skip that. Most of our churches down in Georgia are alcohol free. Rural Georgia is more of the prohibition sect when it comes to mixing church and drink.