New Home Owner

Anything but cleaning products!!!

starstella Why is your post all in capital letters? It makes it difficuclt to read.

I would be wary about giving anyone anything scented, some people have allergies to these product and many people really do not like them.

I am among those people, I dislike scented air in the house, unless it is fresh with the scent of real flowers and fresh air through a window. I feel the same about candles, especially scented candles. Any given to me soon end up in the charity shop bag.

A diffuser The white Company are £25 and Seychelles is gorgeous. Jo Malones are £60 and last for months and months and are stunning. Aldi no 11 are much cheaper. I am not a fan of Neptune diffusers but that is my present of choice. TK max sell some nice ones that you can sniff.

You can get a jigsaw puzzle of a post code area. It comes it different formats. We were given one and once completed we framed the puzzle. They come from the Happy Puzzle Company and can be bought on line.

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You can get an ordinance survey map tailored to the new home - their house in the middle. This makes a unique and very special gift! You can also choose which image will be on the front - in the past I've found a photo of the new house and used that, but you could use a photo of the family, or whatever you want. You can even choose the title of the map and there are options for scale. If feeling rich you can get it framed! but there are others for under £20.
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Thanks for this - a terrific idea for an inexpensive personalised gift!

Argos or B & Q voucher then they can choose their own gifts.

Ready planted herb trough/planter, solar light , nice house number plate just with number and someone to put it up

Cleaning products, baskets for storage, a nice plant/planter for indoors or outside, clothes pegs, storage hooks on a nice plinth.

A subscription to the National trust came in handy to a friend who wanted to escape all the work a New Home entailed and find out about the new area. If they like good coffee a subscription for a monthly delivery of coffee beans.

I've not had occasion to buy many new home gifts but a hefty ( no stinginess now!) IKEA voucher seems to go down well! Can get everything from pot plants to cook shop stuff and anything for the home that maybe they wouldn't have budgeted for themselves.?

MY SON IS MOVING OUT OF RENTED ACCOMMEDATION SHORTLY.WE HAVE OFFERED TO HAVE THE NEW HOUSED CLEANED FROM TOP TO BOTTOM AND THE SAME FOR THE RENTED HOUSE.I THOUGHT IT WOULD SAVE HIM TIME AND BE NICE TO MOVE INTO A NICE CLEAN HOME.

When son, then daughter, moved into their first ‘proper’ flats - ie, not student flat shares, I bought the each a set of Le Creuset saucepans. Several moves later, plus marriages and children, they are still in use. For some of their friends, I made a First Aid box when they moved into their own home - a nice little bicuit-type tin with plasters, TCP, Savlon, Optrex drops, Ibuprofen, Alka Seltzer(!) (other brands are available). Not stuff you'd just buy in your weekly shop if you're young and fairly broke, but things that when you need them, you need them NOW!

I would give thm a gift token for a meal or several at a local eatery. Nothing beats the pleasure of looking at all the chaos in the new house on moving day and shutting the door and going out for a meal and even spending the first night in a hotel.

Actually I have rethought! I’m going to go with a professional oven clean!

My granddaughter and her fiancé are soon to move into their own home so I’ve made up a box of eco friendly, plastic free cleaning and laundry materials. Added a bird box that I painted and painted a picture of their new house instead of buying a card.
They haven’t moved yet so I haven’t given it to them but I hope they like it and might continue with at least one or two planet friendly products.

A nice bouquet of flowers delivered every month for a few months.

Either a plant for the garden which means New Beginnings, or a week's/month's supply of frozen food for their freezer. (Cook's stuff is quite good. Or, if you're like my OS who is a super cook and always has something on hand (or in gigantic American freezer rather!) that he's very generous with.

How about an M & S voucher? They can choose what they need!

It depends whether this is a first household or a move to another residence. If the latter the ready meals and planter seem jolly good ideas. I gave to someone first setting up a home a washing-up bowl filled with dish cloth, tea-towel, pegs etc. Things that you need but don't necessarily have to start with. Not very exciting but it was much appreciated

If there's a garden, some spring bulbs to plant in a few weeks time for a cheerful spring?

I bought my friend a pot of flowers to put at her new front door. When I moved I got vouchers for homeware shops, but a special gift was from a close friend who had got a lovely picture made from different textiles of my dog in a flower filled garden. It also had my new home moving in date on it, it's beautiful and I'll treasure it forever.

Nice big "bathsheet" towels. (Good quality.) The ones I've given have always been appreciated - and used!

I think a garden centre voucher would be best. That way they can chose themselves rather than receive a present that might not suit their decorating ideas....

A colourful plant for indoors or outside the front door.