Appropriate or inappropriate

catsareniice1 · September 2014

I would like to send a sympathy basket to someone who lost a close family member. Is this basket appropriate http://www.gifttree.com/p3/6743/Encore_Gourmet_Gift_Basket-1.html

or should I stick to a fruit basket?

vlagrl29 · September 2014

I can only go from my own experience, but when my first husband passed away they last thing I wanted to eat was chocolate and cookies. I would stick with the fruit basket.

catsareniice1 · September 2014

vlagrl29 said:

I can only go from my own experience, but when my first husband passed away they last thing I wanted to eat was chocolate and cookies. I would stick with the fruit basket.

Very sorry for you loss. Yeah maybe I should stick to a fruit basket. I also saw this (a tea basket) but still fruit??

catsareniice1 · September 2014

http://www.gifttree.com/p3/16105/Traditional_Teatime_Basket-1.html tea basket

vlagrl29 · September 2014

catsareniice1 said:

vlagrl29 said:

I can only go from my own experience, but when my first husband passed away they last thing I wanted to eat was chocolate and cookies. I would stick with the fruit basket.

Very sorry for you loss. Yeah maybe I should stick to a fruit basket. I also saw this (a tea basket) but still fruit??

It was 7 years ago next month. It seems like a very long time ago. Life is so much different now that i barely think about it. A tea basket sounds great. Some tea's can be calming like camomile tea. It can calm nerves.

lifeonthehill · September 2014

When my father died several years back we had so many fruit baskets sent to us it was crazy. My mom runs a daycare so the kids loved it but it didn't have a ton of meaning for us after the 7th basket. I would try and send the tea basket. It is just something a little different but still thoughtful and applicable to the situation.

als1982 · September 2014

Agree about skipping the fruit. Also, I'd recommend never sending a potted plant. Sometimes people get weird attachments to them. (I did - I cried when I threw the ones away from my dad's funeral, and my mom still has several from over seven years ago - and they look terrible.) Stamps and blank thank you cards would be nice. They'll need lots of those.

jtmh2012 · September 2014

I guess I'm the oddball here. I'd love the first basket followed by the teatime basket. I'm just not a fruit person. Plus, if they get a lot of them, you have to work to eat it all before it goes bad.

Xstatic3333 · September 2014

I also vote tea basket, unless you know for a fact that the family are big chocoholics. Definitely keep it non-perishable, whatever it is. Definitely not fruit. Whenever I get gifted fruit I always feel super stressed out about eating it all in time.

KatieCutie05 · September 2014

Depends on the person - so it helps if you know the person well.

Personally i'd much rather have that basket then tea or fruit! I don't drink tea and fruit just ends up spoiling. Its a lot better then watching flowers die.

uncreatedsnow · September 2014

I think the tea basket is sweet. I also don't think there is anything wrong with the first one. It's a very thoughtful thing to do either way.

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