Hi I'm having a house warming function next month. I was thinking of giving return gifts on this occasion. The idea is to give one return gift per family. The budget for each family is 25rupees - 30rupees. Where can i get good gifts in Chennai? The gifts should be usable and worth buying. Also, Please suggest some shops in Chennai, where i can get the gifts that are readily available. The gifts shouldn't be idols of god. Thanks Geni
Put your gift budget per person then it will be easier.. If your budget is 25-30Rs per family then for a family of four it will be around around 6Rs.. In this budget you can get small steel bowls or plates in whole sale market but you have to search a lot. May be you can go for some small tray or gift box. You can put some packed sweet in plates or bowls or box.
Dear Geni Sister, Welcome to IL family, So you are very Clever, your return gifts must be 1. Cheap (25Rs) 2. worth using by the family getting it 3. just want to gift only one per family 4. Gifts should not be Idols I would be happy and pray to the almighty that I should not be visiting any houses who has so much conditions in their minds for a gift, Sorry for being little Rude. I feel it is not the price of the gift that counts, it depicts your mind, Just imagine if somebody thinks like this while gifting you... once again please accept my apologies for this reply...
she is going as per her budget... whatz the big deal in it? as someone else suggested, steel bowls/glasses/small plates are gud enough. Chennai is famous for steel utensils..searching the wholesale markets would definitely be useful. One can probably find more varieties in those wholesale shops.
H Geni, Please check the shops in Broadway.. Whr you can get the blouse bits in wholesale rate and steel plates or plastic boxes on a wholesale rate.. This is what I did for my house warming function. Bought 1 bundle of blouse bits which was given to all ladies along with plastc boxes(each 14 rs) with one fruit in bag. For males, we gave the plastic box in bag with fruit. Hope it helps you
Dear deepu sister, Will you use the Blouse pieces given at that rate for yourself, because stiching rate in Chennai is much higher than that, Come on please be practical. please dont give gifts for the sake of giving... Sorry!!!
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I agree with saisakthi , although its not wrong to have a budget n in no way we are making fun of op but I feel why bother to give something just for the sake of it. She could give some fruits and sweets which were used in pooja. Although for 25 rs she can get some steel bowl or plastic container but I wonder how useful it will be for the family.
Geni.. as saisakthi suggested, please consider increasing your budget since it is for a family... may be around 150 rs so that you can get nice gifts which would be worth remembering .. since this is a house warming function... just think that you have spent some extra money for the building... some ideas like dhoop stand in silver.. less weight.. get it for whole sale.. or even a small kumkum pot... would be nice... even terrocota items etc.. would be nice and elegant..
Any gift items, which cost only Rs. 25. you will not get any quality items. I second the thought of saisakthi sister. instead you can give thamboolam and sweets ( which you made for the function)