Every item in the basket, box or jar, counted — so it does not arrive looking empty.
The real assembly time, including the part where the glue has to dry.
Budget-friendly, middle or a splurge — said plainly, without pretending to know today's price.
One line for the tag or card, written for that gift and not recycled.
The recipient this gift misses, said up front rather than after you have made it.
Replace something they use up — the coffee, the socks, the good pen — in a better version than they buy for themselves. It gets used within the week, which is the only test that matters.
Six to eight for a basket, four to five for a jar. Fewer looks thin, more stops reading as one gift and turns into a pile.
Yes, if it needs no drying or curing time. Jar gifts, baskets, printed tags and anything assembled rather than made are all one-evening gifts; candles, resin and baked goods are not.
Only when it is handed over in the envelope it came in. Presented inside something — a box, a bouquet, a fold-out card you printed — it reads as chosen.
Every idea names what goes in it, how long it takes and the line to write on the tag, so it reads as meant rather than grabbed.
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