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Gift in a Jar ideas
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that price is discusting, :eek: makes you want to sell your own creations doesnt itJust seen this and couldn't believe the price...
£10 from Debenhams :eek:
99p Store have tubs of marshmallows for yep, 99p, pop them in a jar and you have a pressie for a lot less than £10!!!
LOL ours are much better than that :T DFW red and green memberDoing my best to lose weight and save money0 -
That Debenhams jar takes the michael....
Anyway I have just made my first journal in a jar for someone's 40th....:jI'm really chuffed with it. Compared to most of you I have really slimmed it down - they get one idea a month! But get to write on the theme or practice relating to the theme all week if they want to. Here's one example
I thought of some headlines like Make today a holiday and then found a picture to go with it using clipart. I then cut them out and stuck them on the back of some gold wallpaper (free sample) that I had. I then rolled them into scrolls and tied wired ribbon around them.
I then put them in approx 0.4l jar from Instore for £1 - glass with bright red lid! Looks smart.
I then put one scroll on top as it was the most important (it's called the rocking chair test) that and it wouldn't fit in the jar and I was too tight to use the bigger £2 jar!:rotfl: I then added some ribbon round the jar to make it look even more impressive - and then when that wouldn't stay stuck added gold paper behind it and then green and gold ribbon on top!:rotfl:
I then added it to my hamper, complete with childhood sweets with blast from the past on a gift label
and a project description, 40 page photoalbum, project book/journal, pens, Q10 and Nivea Visage anti-wrinkle cream samples
There we go all done! Just need some dreaded cellophane now - and in case you were in any doubt... I don't own any! I need to get some by next Saturday!Achieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £175.8K Equity 32.38%
2) £4.3K Net savings after CCs 13/5/25
3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £20.6K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.1K) = 26.3/£127.5K target 20.63% updated 16/5
4) FI Age 60 income target £16.5/30K 55.1%
5) SIPP £4.4K updated 16/50 -
savingholmes - thats brilliant. What a lot of trouble you went to. Maybe one a month is enough.......for a start anyway. You could always add to it for birthdays if it goes down well which I'm sure it will.:TMary
I'm creative -you can't expect me to be neat too !
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rainmac - tenner for a jar of marshmallows ???? They're having a laugh surely................lol
savingholmes - love your Journal Jar......brilliant idea...........(might have to copy that......well part of it anyway......don't have any gold wallpaper.....lol)
Brilliant hamper :TMary
I'm creative -you can't expect me to be neat too !
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Oh lor.............is anyone else as confused as me or am I having megga senior moments all to myself. I've got a jar in my box of 'stuff to do'.......too big for the 'safe keeping' one, not big enough for journal, quotes or facts..........can't face any more pickled bums -but I must have kept it for a reason...................
And its just taken me an hour to work out why I wrestled with OH over a gravy granules tin....................lol Knew I needed it for something, didn't know what................had to scroll back on here to find it and it was to put sherbet lemons in...........canned sunshine............................lol
Wheres me list................................ I've lost it................:rotfl: Mary
I'm creative -you can't expect me to be neat too !
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savingholmes that hamper is great, im sure it will go down well with your friend.:T
we have a 99p store near me in Hartlepool and they sell all different size and shapes glass jars with lids and yes you guessed for 99p each. i will be stocking up next week, id over spent today so had to curb it:rotfl:DFW red and green memberDoing my best to lose weight and save money0 -
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It'll all come flooding back to me......................(she says hopefully) but thats the trouble having bits of this and that half done everywhere, bits of paper (sure I had a proper list somewhere), website links............oh eck...............I'll think of something....................lol:rotfl:
Quiet night with OH and a DVD might restore me to normality (whatever that might be)............:rotfl:Mary
I'm creative -you can't expect me to be neat too !
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Well while I was on a roll - I did another journal jar using a gold plant pot I'd been given for hampers (as you do). So this time I used purple and gold wrapping paper to paste my creations on to and some nice purple and green metalic shred (to help them stick out the top enough). I then rolled them up and tied each "scroll" with some dovecraft metalic purple and gold ribbon I'd been given (retails at 99p). Again only did 12 ideas - one for each month.
So great start to another 40th birthday hamper! Not really cost anything yet either!:jAchieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £175.8K Equity 32.38%
2) £4.3K Net savings after CCs 13/5/25
3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £20.6K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.1K) = 26.3/£127.5K target 20.63% updated 16/5
4) FI Age 60 income target £16.5/30K 55.1%
5) SIPP £4.4K updated 16/50 -
I've been naughty too... but for me that's the idea of the challenge fund - to help pay for things like this! I have been doing really well! I'm trying to put my existing stuff into hampers - but obviously it still needs to suit the individual so you still end up spending some money - most of the time anyway.:eek:northernlass wrote: »savingholmes that hamper is great, im sure it will go down well with your friend.:T
we have a 99p store near me in Hartlepool and they sell all different size and shapes glass jars with lids and yes you guessed for 99p each. i will be stocking up next week, id over spent today so had to curb it:rotfl:Achieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £175.8K Equity 32.38%
2) £4.3K Net savings after CCs 13/5/25
3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £20.6K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.1K) = 26.3/£127.5K target 20.63% updated 16/5
4) FI Age 60 income target £16.5/30K 55.1%
5) SIPP £4.4K updated 16/50
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