Customized pushka's for cheap

Chickensoupprof

Sun, Aug 07 2022, 5:00 pm

Hi,

Tisha b'av is already done here, I was walking outside and I found a coin on the street and I was like oh I put that in my pushka in zechus of my Brother in law a'h and then my husband said 'We need to make a customized pushka for him!' and I was like YAH... So where can you find that? Must be sent to Europe.

Dankjewel en liefs

Plonis

Mon, Aug 08 2022, 3:42 am

Are you looking to make one, ten, or a thousand?

I'd contact an organization in the area, they are likely to have made pushkas and would probably know where to do it.

I doubt it's cost-effective to manufacture pushkas in the US and have them sent to Europe.

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BatyaEsther

Mon, Aug 08 2022, 3:43 am

I didn’t see your thead as it was 5 pm tisha b’Av and I was testing and then dinner….
I don’t know if you can find one on Etsy, but are you creative at all? You can easily make one out of anything. When my kids were little we made one out of a sipping cup. We cut off the rubbery drinking part and covered it in rhinestone stickers. You could write lezecher nisnmat and his name in a silver sharpie.

Did he have a silver becher? You could use that. It doesn’t need to be sealed on top. His old, loved wallet. Can you sew 2 of his yarmulkes together into a pouch? What makes you think of him? What is your creative outlet?

Chickensoupprof

Mon, Aug 08 2022, 3:47 am

Plonis wrote:

Let's start with 50ish for family members

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Chickensoupprof

Mon, Aug 08 2022, 3:53 am

BatyaEsther wrote:

I'm creative but not like that. My creative outlet is writing stories, being creative in cooking and baking, and chalk on paper. We don't have any of his possessions since those are in Eretz Yisrael and we (at least DH and I) it should belong to his children. What makes me think of him nothing much... DH decided to have a 9 day candle burning for him, so we do that is nice to have that, especially in the beginning, I sometimes ''took'' him to the light and said ''go to the light, we are doing ok'' whenever I felt really down or my husband was really down, so now he has a place here. But we wanted a pushka was immediately a thought but it didn't set foot yet so we thought after tisha b'av we should start.

Plonis

Mon, Aug 08 2022, 4:10 am

Chickensoupprof wrote:

Let's start with 50ish for family members

Probably the most cost-effective way to do it is to buy blank pushkas and print labels for them which you can put on by hand (annoying but doable). I wouldn't know the best place to buy blank pushkas in the EU though, I'd contact a local shul, school, or other organization that has made pushkas in the past.

ra_mom

Mon, Aug 08 2022, 8:04 am

Maybe call the main chabad shlucha office to ask if they have leads.

I found these online, but don't know about shipping.
https://ahuva.com/products/tze.....ushka

https://www.pushkahome.com/customorders

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leilatov1

Mon, Aug 08 2022, 8:40 am

newdaynewdawn wrote:

https://www.mycharityboxes.co.uk/

This or contact a school and ask them where they get their Purim ones from. It's probably this website though.
Or buy blank from Amazon and get a graphic designer to make the label and print it. Loads of people in Antwerp and London/ Manchester do graphics and can do for you.