Easy Welcome Basket to Greet your Guests
The holidays are wonderful for spending more time together as a family with the kids home from school and with relatives in town visit. With all the hustle and bustle and extra bodies around the home, though, some of your household supplies will be on short supply if you don’t prepare. A fun way to get ready for guests to arrive is to put together an easy welcome basket to greet your guests with!
Use this as a starting point to create your own perfect welcome baskets. Pick out a budget – like maybe $20 – and then plan to let your guests pillage your welcome basket to keep anything they may need on their visit.
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Welcome Basket Contents:
- Flip flops or slippers, depending on the weather
- Lotion
- Chapstick
- Blu-ray or a good book/magazine
- Notepad and pen
- Snacks
- Water bottles
- Toiletries they may need (soap, shampoo, razor, q-tip, finger nail clippers, toothbrush, toothpaste, etc)
- Sunscreen
- Toilet paper (no one likes to ask where to find this!)
I assembled an easy welcome basket to keep in our guest bedroom and added fun printable tags I created to personalize the basket and help my visitors to easily see that they were welcome to the goodies inside.
Click Here to: Download 3 Free Printable Tags
One essential item we added to the basket was an extra roll of toilet paper. I don’t know if you’ve ever visited someone’s home and had to ask the horrifying question of where they keep the extra rolls. We always keep several extra rolls of toilet paper, but when you have extra family or friends in the home, you’ll go through your supply faster than you usually do and may not think to check the stash.
Two things can help to keep your bathroom fully stocked:
1. Stock an extra roll (or pack) of toilet paper in the guest bedroom so your guests can easily restock if you fall behind, without embarrassment.
2. Choose Charmin Ultra Mega Roll through the holidays. It’s a longer lasting roll which will help you meet the extra depend and not have to fret over an empty tube.
We took a side-by-side challenge to compare Charmin Ultra Mega Roll to an unlabeled competitor toilet paper brand to help us see the difference first hand. Both rolls started out pretty close in size, but the Charmin roll far outlasted the competitor. Just 2 squares of Charmin took at least 8 of the tissue paper thin sheets of the competitor to come close to the thickness, and the softness could never compare.
With Charmin Ultra Mega Roll you can use up to 4x less, compared to the leading 1000 sheet brand of toilet paper (based on average usage), which equals savings and less stress through the holidays. Because each sheet is more absorbent, you’ll need less and save more!
Stock up on Charmin Ultra Mega Roll this holiday season and don’t forget to add a roll to the welcome basket for your guests!
If my host had slippers for me in a guest basket, I would be so HAPPY! What a nice surprise for sure.
What a cute idea to welcome guests who will be visiting for the holidays. Anyone that makes up one of these baskets using your ideas will definitely impress the guests.
Thisis a great idea for guests! We never have any stay overnight but I love the idea!
What a fabulous idea. I love all the items you put in the welcome basket.
What a great idea. I bet this would make your guest feel really welcome.
There’s nothing more embarrassing than needing someone to bring you toilet paper! This is a great precaution!
Putting up a welcome basket for your guests is an awesome idea. I think it’s practical to include a toilet paper in the basket.
This does sound like the perfect welcome basket. I can totally agree that Charmin is the best!
I am excited to go shopping to pick up things to put in a welcome basket for my guests this holiday season. This is such a great idea.
A welcome basket for your guests is an amazing idea. I have company coming soon. I will have to make up a basket for them.
I love greeting my guests with welcome baskets! One cute idea I’ve seen recently is to include the WiFi password. My father literally puts mints on the pillows!
Oh my goodness, what a fabulous idea. I did this for all the guest at my wedding, but never thought of doing it for house guests. Thanks for the idea.
I love this idea to help people feel loved and seen. It’s so personal but easy to do!
So fun! I would love these in our guest room, make people feel more at home!
I absolutely love this idea. I know I don’t like asking where the toilet paper is and you are bound to forget to bring something with you. I don’t know how many times I have had to go out and buy a toothbrush.
I love this idea! I think it would make my guests feel realy welcome!
This is such a great idea! I know I would love to see a basket like this when I stay with someone!
I know where I want to visit! You treat your guests right!
What a fabulous idea. I love everything in the basket too. What a fun idea, I could see myself making some of these!
This is a fun idea. We have guests visiting for the holidays and this would be nice to make.
That is a great idea Who wouldn’t feel at home with all that?
That’s a great basket. I have to say, I’ve never thought about toilet paper in a basket like this before, but I love it!