GIFT GUIDE: For The Hostess
FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Recipe Box / Marble Bowl & Mini Spoon / Wine Preserver / Lemon Reusable Dishcloths / Jennifer Fisher Salts / Electric Candle Lighter / Momofuku Chili Crunch / Wine Bottle Platters / Electric Wine Opener / Mason Jar Indoor Herb Garden / Ceramic Pot with Succulent / Gourmet Oil Dipping Spice Kit
The best gifting tip I can think of? Buy hostess gifts in bulk so they are at the ready when you are about to run out the door to a party/dinner/book club and realize “F*CK I totally forgot to pick up something to bring!” And my second best gifting tip? Don’t bring- or re-gift- crappy wine. It just looks effortless, not to mention the inherent risk involved. I have totally brought a bottle of wine somewhere before and either the hostess -or a guest- was able track said bottle of wine back to herself at some point in the hot potato game of gifting wine. You gotta know where that bottle has been- and I just don’t have the headspace for that.
Soooooo- here are 12 Hostess Gift ideas that aren’t a bottle of wine, and should be purchased in multiples because they have wide appeal and evergreen shelf-life, meaning you can gift them now, or save them to gift a year from now and they will still feel absolutely perfect.