Your favorite housewarming gift?

What was your favorite housewarming gift that you ever received?
Mine is a book about the town I moved from in New York. It's fun to look through and remember being there. I would have never bought it when I lived there but appreciate having it now.

I received a riding lawnmower from a guy I was dating when I bought the house I'm living in now.

JJ

Oh, well, we won't ask what you did to get THAT kind of gift, will we?

actually, when he called me to say he was buying it, I said, "DO NOT get that! This is wayyy to generous a gift. Please DO NOT purchase that machine." The schmuck did anyway...Bet you are thinking "what a great guy." Uh huh...oh yeah...it was the first thing he asked for when I said I thought we needed to see other people..."Well, what kind of arrangements would you like to make on the lawnmower?" I kid you not. A gift? Not really...I found out later his boss was with him when he made the purchase and he just wanted to look good in front of him. The jerk. What did I tell him? First I thought about telling him the arrangements would be for him to shove it up....ah...well, let's just say that kind of arrangement wouldn't have been possible, so I told him I like him backing up to my driveway and hauling off HIS lawnmower because I could buy my own. My NEW lawnmower was sitting there when he came to get HIS. He later called and apologized and wanted us to date again. I told him when he could learn to make his butt whistle Dixie, we would. Okay, so maybe I didn't use those exact words...but he got the picture.

JJ

JJ

I bet Alabamy is full of jj's abandonned butt whistlin,' lawn mowin,' lovers. What a picture.
smile

Smile, thanks for sharing! Butt whistlers? Lovely!

We have lived in our home for twenty-plus years. Sorry to say, but I can't remember housewarming gifts. Too old, I guess.

Dots, I bet if JJ's butt whistlin,' lawn mowin,' ex boyfriend shows up with a house warming lawn tractor, you'll remember!
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You better believe it!

I guess my favorite gift was a plant because it instantly made the house feel homey. Sheesh. I'm easy to please, I guess.

If you're the Queen, I guess you should expect Queenly gifts.. but a riding lawnmower? Wow.

Vicki, being easy to please is a blessing. Don't you think?

I love plants too. I'm surrounded by them in my office.

My housewarming was my sister and my son and his wife moving in with me. rent fre of course. Was my house warmed? Nope, but I was a bit hotter under the collar....

People give housewarming gifts, for real?! I need to have friends like yours!

My favorite housewarming gift was a basket full of "pounds".

A pound of butter, a pound of sugar, a pound of flour...and pounds of other things.

People just moving usually can use staples. I think this was such a creative idea!

danita

Now thats a neat idea. Pounds of stuff. Actually I did get some nice housewarming gifts. My first house was a little sweet place and my new husband bought me the fattest cutest St. Bernard puppy ever. Her name was Cleo....

My second home which came 9 or so years later my best friends, five of them together got me 6 Lilac bushes planted by a nursery beneath each bedroom window and 1 off the back patio. Now thats the gift that kept on giving.

This Vegas house was the one I mentioned above where everyone moved in for free. Been here for 15 years and still waiting for a housewarming gift. Geesh!!!!

I have to agree with bushes being my favorite housewarming gift. The darn things are taller than the house now but remind me always of dear friends.

wow that is so sweet! a puppy. The flower bushes are a great idea as well. I'll have to remember these things when my friends start getting new places.

chatty, your post remided me of a few neat gifts we got when Mom died. One friend gave us a weeping cherry tree. We also got a pink azaleia, some bulbs, and heather for the garden from other friends.

This had become my favorite gift idea for deaths. Plants and flowers are forever expressing new life. When I see them in my garden I think of Mom and her new life in heaven. It makes me smile.