Moving into a new home begins a new and exciting chapter in life. Celebrate this massive milestone with your friends or family members and help them dive into their new adventure by sending them a housewarming gift. Whether the recently appointed homeowners are vegan or you want to share some vegan lifestyle influence, these five housewarming gift ideas that are vegan-friendly make a great gift for anyone!
Soy-Based Candles
Candles are a tried-and-true housewarming gift. They transform any space with a cozy ambiance, adding mood lighting, delectable scents (if scented), and comforting sights and sounds from its flickering and crackling flame. Soy-based candles substitute the stearic acid, commonly derived from animal bones and used to harden the wax of candles, with a vegan alternative, soy. Since soy oil solidifies at room temperature, it negates the need for stearic acid.
Gift Baskets
Food is always a welcome gift, especially when you have an empty kitchen. If you love to put together an extensive collection of treats, consider curating a personalized gift basket overflowing with tasty vegan treats. Or, if you’re short on time and can’t find specific items, plenty of companies sell pre-packed vegan gift baskets. These practical presents minimize long-term, materialistic waste from ending in the dump, and your friend or loved one can even reuse the basket as an at-home storage solution.
Plants
Help bring your loved one’s new home come to life with a little bit of living greenery. Plants provide a range of benefits, from air purification to aesthetic pleasure. They also make an excellent eco-friendly gift. Like pets, plants become part of the family and flourish alongside the people they share their home with under proper care. As the plants thrive throughout the years, they symbolize the success and growth of their owner in their new home.
Cookbooks
Untouched and organized kitchens make people excited to hop in and start making delicious meals. By gifting your new homeowners with plant-based cookbooks, you add another source of inspiration to their kitchen, spread veganism, and administer them a pre-written shopping list to stock their empty pantry. Plus, cookbooks can add aesthetic appeal to any kitchen. That said, all books can serve as a vegan-friendly housewarming gift, whether it’s a coffee table display or a fantastical novella. Bonus points if you gift a second-hand book and limit waste!
Kitchen Appliances
Kitchens are like a sacred place in a vegan’s home. It’s where they get to play around with recipes, experiment with plant-based ingredients, and practice their ethical choices. Many modern recipes require some form of fancy equipment, from electronic mixers to power-charged blenders. There’s plenty of room for fresh and updated appliances in a new home. No matter what diet or lifestyle they follow, an upgraded kitchen makes life and cooking easier.
Welcome your loved one’s new place with a gift that’ll make it feel like a home. With these five housewarming gift ideas that are vegan-friendly, you can support your friends as they embark on this fresh start and supply their new space with environmentally conscious essentials.
