Reply #34: We always make our own baskets too [View All]

We always reuse the baskets. A couple of years ago I finally had to buy new baskets, because the ones they've been using since basically birth were starting to fall apart.

We do a small chocolate bunny, a small stuffed animal (they still love them and very much look forward to them!), a coloring or activity book, Whoppers (gotta have Whoppers), and bubbles. This year we also got them each a DVD they've been asking for for the last couple of months. We were going to buy them anyway, so what the hell.

Hubby ran out to the grocery store at 11 something tonight to pick up something and said the Walmart parking lot was PACKED.


edited to add: My in-laws got my kids those ready-made baskets a few years ago. There's hardly anything in them! They're packaged so it appears there is more in them than there really is. I agree it's a huge waste of money... not to mention, extremely impersonal.