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When you’ve been invited over to someone’s home, you need to make sure you bring a host gift. After all, if you’ll be dining on their turkey and hard labors in the kitchen, you need to make sure that you express gratitude. In order to make sure that you have the perfect gift, we have provided you with 9 great gifts that any host would be happy to receive.

 

  1. Round leather coasters. This set of 6 coasters is made of genuine leather and will look great in any room of the house. It will also remind your host or hostess to make sure everyone is using a coaster as they are milling around before the Thanksgiving feast is actually served.
  2. A bottle of wine. Whether your host drinks or others at the party would like a glass, bringing a bottle of wine is traditional and thoughtful. Unless you know a particular style of wine that the host likes, you can go with a Chardonnay. It’s a white wine that will go great with turkey and is popular.
  3. Leather umbrella stand. Whether it’s raining outside or not when you arrive, this thoughtful gift can be placed by the front door immediately. It is something that many won’t think to buy for themselves, yet it will get used each and every time it is raining outside. There will never be a panic of where an umbrella is located ever again.
  4. Flowers. Whether you have them delivered to yourself and bring them over or have them delivered right to the host, they are a great way to add color and festivity into the host’s home. They can be placed on the dining room table or somewhere else inside the home immediately to be put into use. You can choose many different arrangements for the season.
  5. Simple Leather Padfolio. This genuine leather case houses a legal pad that is perfect for taking notes about just about anything. Your host can take it to work or keep it on the counter for an elegant way to list the groceries needed for the week.
  6. Leather tissue box cover. When everyone is coming over to a house, people will inevitably use the bathroom. You can show how much you think about everything by offering up something useful for the home. The host can choose to put a box of tissues out on the table to match the rest of the home or disguise a generic box of tissues in the bathroom.
  7. Cheesecake. You can provide the dessert at the Thanksgiving dinner so it gives the host one less thing to cook. These cheesecakes are absolutely delicious and come in many different flavors, including pumpkin cheesecake.
  8. Valet tray. This is something personal that hosts can use in their bedrooms or guest rooms so that they have a safe place to empty the contents of their pocket.
  9. Leather letter organizer. This organizer will be perfect to place on a table near the entrance of their home or on a desk to keep bills and other mail easily sorted.

 

>If we utilize Thanksgiving day correctly, we might just find a few lessons hidden behind the big meal at the large dinner table.

Some time ago, Robert Emmons, a professor at the University of California, Davis,
showed through a set of experiments that if you wish to “sleep better, feel better, and motivate yourself” to take better care of your health, regular “Thanksgiving” sessions work wonders.

Once a month, once a week, once a day.

Right now we (in the US) celebrate Thanksgiving once a year and truthfully it can be stressful more than thankful for some people.

But what if we had a Day of Thanks once a month? [Because taking time out to be thankful for the numerous bounties around us would just be IMPRACTICAL once a day right? Let's take a walk to any cancer ward at a nearby hospital to answer this question...]

Anna Quindlen writes a wonderful piece in Newsweek (second to last page in the issue dated November 26th, 2007) entitled “Blessed is the Full Plate,” in which she eloquently argues that we as a nation should be focusing on collective generosity and doing more for the (less fortunate) fellow human being, irrespective of race and creed.

And what if we defined “Thanksgiving Day” to mean spending an entire day (or a large portion of it) with people that really mean the most in our lives, resting and playing and being mostly free from worries of the everyday?

Enjoy your Turkey and comment on this post please…

Adam from CLC