Personalized Housewarming Gifts
The highest quality, best sounding Windchimes customized as a housewarming gift. Choose a Size:
Choose from the six sizes - $49.95 to $239.95
- Listen to the different melodies before choosing
- Free Engraving on the brushed aluminum wind plate
- Free hand written gift card can be enclosed
- Free UPS Ground shipping (Express available)
- Your Personalized Wedding Gift can be gift wrapped
- Order by noon, and your chimes ship the next day
House warming gifts can be found and party planning can begin as soon as the truck pulls up in front of the house. The "For Sale" sign is long gone. Is it time for the House warming party? House warming gifts? Not yet!
Your new neighbors need to get settled in and accustomed to their new surroundings. Once they've got (most) everything put away, you may or may not get an invitation for a housewarming party. If you do, great, make sure you attend, and make your new neighbors your newest friends. If they don't have a house warming party, select a nice, appropriate house warming gift, and head on over to introduce yourself and say "welcome!"
Housewarming gifts: This site
This site is designed to cover the basics of the house warming and house warming gifts, a little of the traditions and customs, traditional housewarming gifts. We'll help you with the party, house warming gift ideas, even give some ideas of what to serve. It's important to remember that there are no hard and fast rules, other than to have fun!
House warming gifts: Changing Traditions
Traditions have changed over the years in regards to house warming parties, ideas, and gifts. In years gone by, what was considered an appropriate housewarming gift depended on the generation at hand. Most common was an apple pie, dozen eggs, side of bacon, or a sack of flower. Today, housewarming gifts include quality decor (for instance, a set of great sounding wind chimes), plants, and personalized gifts rule the day. Some interesting and unusual ideas for housewarming gifts include: a book on local history, carved garden stones, silk flowers or flower bulbs, the aforementioned wind chimes, or even a fragrant candle. Have you thought about what you are going to give to your new neighbor yet? If you're stuck, try a quality piece of garden or patio decor. It's hard to go wrong. Enjoy!
House warming: "the housewarming saying"
We've heard two versions, and they seem to be common when searching for housewarming gifts or information on housewarming parties:
1. The bread and salt tradition comes from an old Russian folk custom. During this period, when the emperor and empress would pay a village a visit, merchants and gentry would present their esteemed guests with a round loaf of bread piled with salt, a sign of hospitality. Peasants were honored using a similar ceremony upon being introduced to the village with their new spouse, with the gift of bread and salt signifying that the new couple would always have the necessities of life. When given at housewarmings, therefore, bread and salt represent the giver’s wish that the recipient’s pantry will always be full. Sugar, on the other hand, symbolizes the hope for a sweet life.
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2. Supposedly of Germanic Origin:
Bread so you'll never go hungry
Salt so you'll have good luck
Wine so you'll never be thirsty. |
