Something Different Christmas Gifts

Something Different for Christmas 

Gourmet Christmas Hampers 2015

Never Again!  You might remember promising yourself, as you packed away the Christmas Tree and vacuumed tinsel scatterings. Never again would you buy something you didn't want to give to someone who didn't need it.  Never again would you sit through that long afternoon of stilted grunts and cliche talk with the nephews who still can't express themselves clearly at 34 years old.

Christmas - it's a time of joy to celebrate endings and conclusions of the year - but why the heck we choose to ruin it with extended periods meeting with people we don't really like  - what is with that?  Here's my take on Christmas and getting things right in the gift department so you feel light and joyous - not resentful and abused.

Simple Gift Ideas

Never again would you go out of your way to buy some out of the way gift for someone who also wasn't prepared to go out of the way to use the it - and just re-gifted it instead.  I've done this too many times.  It's easier to just make a solid gift selection from the beginning and stick with it year after year.

Bespoke Corporate Gourmet Hampers

One of the most overwhelming facets of Christmas is the whole gift buying experience - which leaves many of us feeling deflated, exhausted and dirty from the over-commercialization of the experience.  Giving should be about giving - not feeling anxious and dreading the next credit card statement.

Choosing a Christmas Hamper

My preferred choice is for a gourmet gift hamper - made specially to order by locals who know the foodie selections to get it just right.  Now, a big thing with Christmas Hampers is that they are not all created equally - most are mass produced in factories and packed by wage slaves with no connection to the product, process or province.

Be careful - that's why a small business operating out of the Hunter Valley  has been so successful over the years - since being established in 1988.

Best thing for choosing a gift hamper is top make sure that the hamper is put together bespoke - so you can actually get to have a say in what ingredients comprise the hamper, as well as seeing that it is fresh.  This way, you get the most recent stock produced and not something that has been prepared sometimes months in advance.

Why Gift Cards Don't Work

You swore you would never again participate in a gift card swap - only to find yourself waiting in line at some shop you would never have otherwise visited, having to top up the price of some stuff you wouldn't have normally bought.

That's the trouble with gift cards - they are never enough and always leave you with that deep feeling of lack.  Like you were invited to the show but only got through to the first half and you have to pay more to see it through to the end.

It's the best time of year to share a Christmas Hamper, and the best Christmas Hampers are available for you.

Christmas Fruit baskets

Gift Baskets or Gift Cards?

Gift Baskets or Gift Cards?

PRESS RELEASE MARCH 2015; SYDNEY, NSW, AUSTRALIA

Today we are interviewing the team behind the well establshed fruitbaskets.net.au - a husband and wife team of fruit lovers who have taken their business online and are now able to offer fresh fruit baskets for delivery in Sydney.  What started as a hobby has grown to become a thriving business servicing the corporate sector with get well gifts, thank you gifts and appreciation gifts for delivery.

It makes a lovely contrast to the ubiquitous gift card that has slowly but surely overtaken the gift giving landscape with it's un-branded neutrality and blandness.

We spoke with Bren and Kacy when they were in a particularly jubilant mood, having just returned from a weekend away at a yoga retreat.  Fresh faced, fit and full of vibrant energy, they explained the difference between a gift basket and a gift card - not that it needs explaining, but you get the picture.

"The question, my dear friend, is do we send a gift basket or do we just send a gift card?  It's as old as the internet, really, whether to send a gift card as a gift or to go one step further and make the decision to actually choose the gift yourself and have it sent.

The Gift Card Interview 2015

When my wife and I started out in the gift basket business back in 2007, we made gift hampers for all occasions and life events - in particular the corporate sector.  But then things changed and the drift towards gift cards meant we experienced a change in traffic - people were actually less inclined to be confident and just order - they thought the should offer the recipient the choice of what to receive.

But a gift card reduces the gift immediately to a number - you only have to look at a gift card and the most prominent thing about it is the dollar value.  So you are getting a value, a price tag - not a gift per se.  It's instantly about being judged and compared and being seen as a number or a value.

Hospital Fruit Baskets Delivered

What a real gift giving experience should be about is sharing a gift - an experience of the giver and the reciever - not about giving a chore that is having to go to a particular shop and redeeming a gift card for a crtain price point.  I know myself that seeing a $30 gift card from a big hardware chain store is as much a challenge to find something at that price point as it is about celebrating the precious moment of my birthday or Christmas."

It's clear to see that Bren and Kacy have spent plenty of time thinking about their gift basket business and the whole schemata behind gifting, giving and sharing good thoughts in the form of a physical gift.

You're invited to join them and experience first hand the magic of online shopping and sending a same day gift basket - visit the fruit basket company for more information or order by calling 1300 284 684.

Fruit Basket to John Hunter Hospital

(PRESSRELEASE.COM, January 08, 2013 ) Newcastle, NSW -- Since 1988, sending a Fruit Basket to John Hunter Hospital Newcastle has been the City’s leading designer of fresh fruit baskets, hand-sculpted with a fresh designer twist.




• Newcastle Knights NRL Fans
• Get Well Gifts for patients at Newcastle Private Hospital
• Get Well Gifts for patients at Lingard Private Hospital
• Get Well Gifts for patients at Lake Macquarie Private Hospital
• Get Well Gifts for patients at Belmont Hospital



• Get Well Gifts for patients at Maitland Hospital
• Get Well Gifts for patients at John Hunter Children's Hospital
• Get Well Gifts for patients at Newcastle Mater Hospital
• Get Well Gifts for patients at St. Joseph's Nursing Home


• Get Well Gifts for patients at Mayfield Nursing Home
• New Baby Gifts For Croudace Wing, NPH, Newcastle Private Hospital
• Newcastle University Alumni Gifts
• Sydney University Alumni Gifts



• Merewether Public School Parents Gifts
• Newcastle University Student Care Packages
• University New South Wales UNSW Care Packages
• Housewarming Gift for New Home Sale



• Funeral Home In Sympathy Gifts
• Fundraising and Charity Gifts
• Wedding Gifts

Fruit Baskets suit all occasions and make for a fresh, sharing moment.  Highly recommended and five star first class results.