To ask you to help me find a hamper for my mum

[thebluearsefly]

...for Christmas. I would love to get her a Fortnum and Masons but can’t afford it :( Can anyone recommend a really lovely hamper for around the 50 quid mark?

Costco have some reasonably priced ones.

Ikea do a really good wooden crate for £9 (or a small one for £5) which you can either wax or paint and they look great filled with things. We have done them for friends and family, getting the contents from Waitrose or local producers or making some home made preserves. We also did a beauty one, a cook’s hamper and a doggy one for our friend’s pets.

Another one who's made her own for the last few years. I'm absolutely useless with cellophane and stuff, but even so I manage to turn a cheap basket into something nice. Or I box it up if I don;t think it'll work in a basket.
I go to either Waitrose or M&S and by the sort of things that people wouldn't pick up on their normal supermarket shop.

Sometimes I theme them. My niece went to Japan for a holiday, so the Christmas afterwards I bought a load of Japanese foods from M&S and boxed them up for her. I did an afternoon tea hamper for an elderly aunt, and an Italian basket for SIL and her husband.
My daughter is a peanut butter fan, so I found everything from peanut butter cereal, through to peanut butter hot chocolate (and of course American peanut butter from Marks) and made up a box for her.