The complete system: step-by-step photo guide, 40+ hamper recipes, printable box templates, a pricing method and video classes that show you a full hamper from box to bow.
“Honestly, one of the best internet purchases I have ever made!”
This isn't theory. Gift hampers get bought every week of the year — birthdays, new bubs, thank-yous, Christmas — and most of them are made by small, local makers, not big brands.
“I am really impressed with the gift basket kit I purchased. I LOVE IT!!!!!”
“Everything that you have created is amazing. I am ecstatic to get started.”
“Wow, that service! I have a basket coach! Thank you so much!”
Messages from women who bought the Formula, shared with their first names.
Most people leave Christmas presents until the last fortnight — right when school's finishing up — and by then there's no time to build, price and sell. The women who do well start in October and November.
There's time to finish the Formula, make your first hamper this weekend and line up your first 3–5 orders before Christmas and the end-of-year teacher gifts.
Gift hampers found me, not the other way round. A few years ago I put together a little thank-you basket for the family across the road: banana bread, homemade jam, a candle and some fresh flowers from the garden tied with twine. Two mums from school saw it and asked if I'd make theirs — and insisted on paying me.
By Christmas I'd made 41 hampers at my kitchen table. I wrote down every recipe, every price and every mistake. That notebook became The Gift Basket Formula, and it's now how thousands of women get started the same way — no shop, no website, no stock.
There's always an occasion 4–6 weeks away: end-of-year teacher gifts, Christmas, Valentine's, Easter, Mother's Day, new bubs. And people always leave the present to the last minute.
Once you've done two, a hamper takes 45–60 minutes. Mornings after drop-off, evenings after bedtime, a Sunday arvo. Done by 2, at pick-up by 3.
The Formula's pricing method turns $30 of supplies into a $75 hamper — 2.5× cost — so you're never working for free.
The Formula plus about $30 of supplies for your first hamper. After that, customers pay a deposit before you buy anything, and you print your own boxes.
There's no off-season for gift hampers. Every month has an occasion someone needs a present for and doesn't have time to make.
$50–$100Customers choose from your photos. You batch-build on Sunday, they order all week.
$80–$150Made to order for the big moments. Higher price, and the customer tells you exactly what she wants.
“I made a couple of baskets and I just got my first order.”
“I really like all the information you get in this program.”
“Working on my first basket now :) I'll send you a photo when it's complete!”
“I have checked out Module 2 and am basing my baskets on the recipes. I'll let you know how they turn out!”
“Everything is opening perfectly here. Stay tuned for pictures and questions (not necessarily in that order.. lol)”
Unedited messages from women who bought the Formula, shared with their first names only.
The guide takes an evening. Class 1 shows a full hamper from empty box to finished bow, so you see exactly what you're making before you spend a cent.
Pick a recipe. Print the box template, grab about $30 of supplies, follow the photo steps. Take one good picture.
Run the pricing method from Class 2. Post the photo with the soft-launch script from the Launch Kit — to your own friends first.
Take a 50% deposit, buy the supplies with it, deliver, and post the next one.
One week, one hamper, one post. That's how it starts.
Every one of these comes from a recipe inside the Formula. Same box templates, same ribbon, same pricing.
Thank-you $65
Brekkie $50
New bub $70
Teacher $45
Housewarming $80
Christmas $95From the first box you fold to the first order you book.
How a hamper is built so it looks like a $75 gift, not $30 of shopping. From your very first one to the ones people photograph.
Stop guessing what to put in. Every recipe tells you what goes inside, what it costs and what it sells for.
I walk you through a complete hamper, from the empty box to the finished bow, so you can build yours alongside me.
What to charge, how to say it, and what to answer when someone asks “how much?”. Never undercharge again.
The part nobody else gives you. Print, fold, fill. Stop paying $5–$8 a box at the craft shop.
The details that make a hamper look like a brand. Change the name, print, done.
What to do each week from now to Christmas, and exactly what to post and say to get your first orders from people you already know.
Not even close. People buy hampers all year: new bubs, birthdays, teacher gifts, housewarmings, get-well, Mother's Day, thank-yous. Christmas is simply the easiest place to start because everyone is buying.
You don't need to be. You're not designing anything from scratch: you follow a recipe, print a box template and copy the photo. The Formula does the creative part; you do the folding.
The Formula, and roughly $30 in supplies for hamper number one. With the deposit-first method your customers pay for supplies before you buy them, and the box templates replace $5–$8 shop-bought boxes with a few cents of card.
No. Nobody to recruit, nobody above you taking a cut, no stock to buy, nothing monthly. You buy the Formula once, you make hampers, your customers pay you directly.
Your first customers are usually people you already know: neighbours, people at work, friends from netball or church, other parents at school pick-up. The Launch Kit gives you the exact posts and messages.
Most do. They build in the evenings and batch a few hampers on a Sunday. One hamper takes 45–60 minutes once you've done two.
Often better than in the city: fewer sellers, everyone knows everyone, and one good hamper gets talked about.
Plenty of people. It was never about the jam. They're paying for the thought, the presentation and the time it saves them. A bunch of flowers costs as much and is gone in five days.
Yes. Everything is digital, the occasions are the same, and checkout shows your price in New Zealand dollars.
Your purchase is covered for 7 days. Read the Formula, build a hamper, and if it isn't clicking for you, send us one email and we'll refund you in full. This doesn't affect your rights under consumer law.