1950s Gift Baskets For Christmas

I hope everyone has a good holiday season and gets time to spend with family and friend. I finally got all my Christmas shopping done and for the first time ever I won't be doing any last minute gift buying on Christmas eve. I know this blog is about antiques and collecting but I really had to tell someone about this great accomplishment. I'm terrible at buying gifts for those office exchanges and holiday parties with co workers and friends. I'm always having to scrounge around last minute to get things bought, wrapped and delivered on time. One thing I did this year to make things a bit easier was to create gift baskets with themes. Since I'm an avid antique collector and everyone knows it I decided to make baskets containing period type items like 1950 style ornaments, candy, and other small trinkets. I was orinally only going to make a couple gift baskets but once I got into it was so fun and easy I decided to make several. I got the idea after reading a website about 1950s candy and remembering how many of the old penny candies I used to buy are no longer available. You can customize each basket using not only 1950s and 60s candy but also throw in some old toys from the period as well. Nothing overly expensive but something from the 50s that would remind someone of their child hood even an old marx tin farm animal would do. I also threw in some 50's style dish towels, postcards and other odds and ends. Anyway you get the picture, just be creative and you can come up with unique and easy Christmas gift basket ideas as well.