The 24 Best Gifts to Bring to a Housewarming Party

Not bringing a gift to a housewarming party stands the test of time for being a huge social no-no. They invited you over to their new home for the new stuff you're going to bring them. OK, not really but a little gift to celebrate the occasion is an absolute necessity for keeping with mature and polite society. You know your friends and relatives and presumably anyone whose housewarming party you might be attending, and maybe not all of them are huge gift getters. That's fine. a little something useful and inexpensive is the way to go for them. Best to not show up empty-handed, just in case.

A bottle of wine is nice, sure. (Well, a nice bottle of wine is nice.) But it's also completely expected, unless you're going out of your way to get something that's particularly special to the homeowners. Here, we've put together 24 gift ideas for housewarmings that are thoughtful. Your contribution to the new place—a recent graduate's first apartment in the big city; your boss's second summer home in Palm Springs (although that might call for a luxury gift); your buddy's new colonial in the burbs—can be more meaningful. It can add some character to the decor or be useful to home-owning. It can be one of those things they wouldn't think to buy themselves until at least three years down the road. Start here.