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Help! £5 Christmas

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  • garty
    garty Posts: 92 Forumite
    l think the best present is something that has had a lot off thought and not at lot off money spent on it...........ikea do a great ginger bread house (kids would love making this and eating it ...for less than five pounds) adults buy cheap wine on offer they can always drink it or give to somebody eles ha its not about how much you spend but how much thought has been put into the gift
  • jamtart6
    jamtart6 Posts: 8,302 Forumite
    the pot of golds went down a treat with the family last year (altho mine ended up being gold boxes 79p, lottery ticket £1 and ferrero rocher £1.99 for 10 sweets split between 4 - so not exactly a pot, nor exactly filled with gold coins, but they bl00dy loved it!!) search on the xmas board for pot of gold and see what comes up, the poems to go with them are nice too. if you wanted to make it up to £5 then put something else gold themed in!

    :ABeing Thrifty Gifty again this year:A
  • jamtart6
    jamtart6 Posts: 8,302 Forumite
    oh and check out eBay for bargains - there are some great sellers *wink* only kidding, but seriously eBay do have good bargains, Avon gift sets, Boots gift sets etc. all under £5

    :ABeing Thrifty Gifty again this year:A
  • annaangeluk_2
    annaangeluk_2 Posts: 448 Forumite
    garty wrote: »
    l think the best present is something that has had a lot off thought and not at lot off money spent on it...........ikea do a great ginger bread house (kids would love making this and eating it ...for less than five pounds)

    Don't mention the ikea gingerbread house!! One year we were having an early xmas for all our friends in mid december as everyone goes away so it's difficult to get together actually at xmas. I started cooking (and drinking wine) at 9am :eek: ready for the meal at 5pm (never did it before so took me ages!) I decided to put the gingerbread house together and couldn't get it to stick together! The bottle of wine was the problem not the actually gingerbread house. I lost my temper with it, opened the back door and flung the whole lot, plate and all down the garden.... straight through the garage window!!!! Oops!:rotfl:
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  • MrsTinks
    MrsTinks Posts: 15,238 Forumite
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    annaangeluk wrote: »
    Don't mention the ikea gingerbread house!! One year we were having an early xmas for all our friends in mid december as everyone goes away so it's difficult to get together actually at xmas. I started cooking (and drinking wine) at 9am :eek: ready for the meal at 5pm (never did it before so took me ages!) I decided to put the gingerbread house together and couldn't get it to stick together! The bottle of wine was the problem not the actually gingerbread house. I lost my temper with it, opened the back door and flung the whole lot, plate and all down the garden.... straight through the garage window!!!! Oops!:rotfl:
    :rotfl: I usually buy them for our goddaughters but this year OH and I might have some fun with making one just cos we can :) We're having x-mas on our own this year (well never known the fornt door to stand still long with people popping by...) so should have time to sit and have fun with mulled wine, icing and ginger bread :D
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  • sharondt
    sharondt Posts: 24 Forumite
    jamtart6 wrote: »
    the pot of golds went down a treat with the family last year (altho mine ended up being gold boxes 79p, lottery ticket £1 and ferrero rocher £1.99 for 10 sweets split between 4 - so not exactly a pot, nor exactly filled with gold coins, but they bl00dy loved it!!) search on the xmas board for pot of gold and see what comes up, the poems to go with them are nice too. if you wanted to make it up to £5 then put something else gold themed in!

    Sorry to be thick :o but please could you explain this idea a bit more. It sounds good, from what i can make out!
  • johnswife
    johnswife Posts: 1,746 Forumite
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    sharondt wrote: »
    Sorry to be thick :o but please could you explain this idea a bit more. It sounds good, from what i can make out!

    put in pot of gold and do a search on the forums, which I did and lots of ideas.

    i am quite keen to do one now.
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  • moneysavingmumofone
    moneysavingmumofone Posts: 4,296 Forumite
    Originally Posted by jamtart6 viewpost.gif
    the pot of golds went down a treat with the family last year (altho mine ended up being gold boxes 79p, lottery ticket £1 and ferrero rocher £1.99 for 10 sweets split between 4 - so not exactly a pot, nor exactly filled with gold coins, but they bl00dy loved it!!) search on the xmas board for pot of gold and see what comes up, the poems to go with them are nice too. if you wanted to make it up to £5 then put something else gold themed in!

    I couldnt do it cos id be so gutted if they won!!! *blush*
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  • samf1971
    samf1971 Posts: 1,630 Forumite
    johnswife wrote: »
    i have just started looking at the comp thread and entered quite a few.
    i am wondering if you have more chance of winning by entering on line, posting or texting. how did you win your prizes?


    Hi, I enter the online ones mainly, I've tried a couple of postal ones, but had no results from them so now I concentrate on the online comps.

    I don't go for the holiday ones unless they are family ones in the UK and don't go for thing like concert tickets & stuff, but I've had a fair amount of prizes so far. Once you start it's addictive lol, but you start to see some return in a month or so from entering.

    Good luck!
  • alison6692
    alison6692 Posts: 2,533 Forumite
    Hiya

    we did this last year! On a couple of gifts my sis and I went together so we had a tenner to spend.

    DVD ideas
    The notebook - classic girly dvd! Great for sisters, etc.
    Anchorman - brilliant for any 20 / 30 something young bloke
    Dirty Dancing - fab girly dvd
    Withnail and I - classic British film!

    In TKMaxx they had some lovely French Connection wallets for £4.99 and some lovely Christmas mugs for £1.99 which are big enough to fill with something like sweeties or smellies.

    Last year I made a retro sweety thing CLICK

    Yummy Mummy bib CLICK

    I love the marks and spencer perfumes and the purse sizes are £5.00

    HTH

    Alison x
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