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How to Make Gift Baskets With Dollar Store Items

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By Colette French
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Making gift baskets can be fun and easy to do. All you need is a nice basket that you can purchase at the dollar store and plenty of nice dollar store items to place into the basket. Read on to learn more.

From Quick Guide: Recessionary Holiday Spending
Difficulty: Easy
Instructions

Things You'll Need:

  • Basket
  • Dollar store items
  • Ribbon
  • Clear plastic wrapping paper
  • Gift paper
  1. Step 1

    Purchase a nice sized gift basket at the dollar store. Baskets may range in price from $1 to $5.

  2. Step 2

    Browse through the store and look for nice gift items that you know your gift receiver will like. Choose about five items or enough to fill the basket.

  3. Step 3

    Place the gift paper inside the basket.

  4. Step 4

    Arrange the gifts inside the basket in a nice and presentable way.

  5. Step 5

    Wrap the basket with the clear plastic wrapping paper in a way whereas you can close up and tie the wrapping paper at the top with ribbon.

  6. Step 6

    Tie a bow with the ribbon at the top of the wrapping paper.

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MyJB said

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on 11/10/2009 Nice article on making a gift basket that's inexpensive but nice. 5

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on 8/5/2009 Great tips!

Psalmist4M said

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on 7/12/2008 Great, straight to the point and good info! Thanks Collette! I believe you'd enjoy some of my similar articles. Please read and rate, am doing the same for yours. Would enjoy having you as a friend also. thx, cherylgoff.com

AbbyNormal said

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on 6/4/2008 Good article.

vvfrn2 said

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on 1/24/2008 Great Article

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