Festive Fivers Contest.

chinagirl

terryrichards wrote:

The best Presents that we have bought over the past years have mostly come from shop called "Home Bargains". I belive it is a chain but the one we shop at is in Northampton

yeh, great shop, I love it. There is one in Kettering too.

GIRLIEWIND

Acu Ring - Massager in attractive crystal box. Makes an intriguing gift!
Fine stainless steel with silver plated, twisted by a special programmed spring machine to make the wires into many different dimensional triangles in to order to get to the acupuncture-points.
The easiest way to forget your fatigue and daily depression! Forget about numb fingers and finger tiredness. Stimulates neural system and brain activities.

Human hands are extremely sensitive, and have the richest neural system of the human body.
So when you give the fingers a nice and easy massage and acupuncture, it lifts your spirit instantly.
Put it on any finger of your hand, and slightly roll the ring back and forth along the finger. £3.95
see at
http://www.healthleadsuk.com/main.php?p=p&id=663

Ali_B_7

Name of Present: Handmade Soap
Do you make it or buy it: Buy it
Total Cost: £3 max per slice
Details: I received a slice of handmade soap from a friend for Christmas and was so impressed with the idea that I replicated it for my children's teachers the following year. It smelled delicious ... Mistletoe Kisses, Evergreen etc ... :j

toozie_2

NAME: Rich Tasting Economical Tea Bread or Bara Brith in Welsh

MAKE and BUY

COST: Less then £5.00

DETAILS:
Recipe:

1LB Value Mixed dried fruit
1/2 pint strong cold tea
8oz Valve SR Flour
4oz Value Brown sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspn mixed spice-optional

Put dried fruit in large bowl, pour overv the tea, stir, and leave to soak overnight. If in a hurry, use hot tea, and soak for at least 2 hours. Add sieved flour, brown sugar, beaten egg, mixed spice, stir until well mixed. place in a greased lined 2lb loaf tin, bake at gas mark 4/350F/177C for 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours, until bread is dark brown and firm to touch. Turn out onto a wire tray.

FOR THE GIFT

Make the above Bara Brith.

Buy 2 LB loaf tin on market - cost about £1.50 to £2.00

Print out a copy of the above recipe on coloured paper/cardboard, decorated with holly round the edges. Laminate if you can get this done for free somewhere.

Put the recipe card in the bottom of the loaf tin, wrap the COLD Tea Bread/Bara Brith in cling film, put in the new loaf tin. Buy Christmas celophane from the local florist for less than 50p. Wrap the whole present with the celophane, tie garden green twine round the top of the celophane, leaving a fluted top, and string dangling down to tie a home made gift tag, of a dark green leaf from the garden (waxy type of leaf). Write your message on the leaf with silver pen.

Viola-tasty, home made, cheap gift, with the potential for the recipient to make the same themselves after Xmas

leona71

Name of present? shower cap/pram wheel covers
Do you make it or buy it? Buy
Total Cost? £4.99
Details (the more the better): this is a very practical present and useful for a women or man with a pram. I know that prams can be so annoying for making a terrible mess of the carpets or wooden floors, so buy 4 shower caps from Boots...get your points too and she can use them as pram wheel covers. Great for women that don't want to be cleaning up dirty pram wheel tread marks all over the place. Oh and remember to type out instructions and pack them in a beautiful gift box. Sure they will come in useful.Crazy present but practical as it does work......tell me i'm silly!!

HOLsale

Name of present? DVD memories
Do you make it or buy it? mostly make it but you'll have to buy the blank dvd's
Total Cost? maybe £2 for some dvd's and at least 3-4 hours time
details!
why not clean out your computer and set aside the really good digital photo's you've got stored. while you're rooting around you can delete unwanted photo's and you can use paint shop pro or photoshop to add captions, to clean up photo's (red eyes, background stuff etc) you can get free copies of paint shop pro online now if you don't have it already. there are free tutorials online for how to use it too! you can make a lovely 'photo scrapbook' on dvd to give to distant relatives or the grandparents. they can pop it in their dvd player and 'watch' it whenever they like!

i will be doing this this year for dh's mum. i'll probably use a program i sell called crazy talk to make some of them 'talk and sing' but with postage that program sets you just over the £5 limit so i haven't posted details about it... regardless it's still a great idea even just with captions and stuff...

learn how to clone stuff and the fun really begins

cheaptokeep

Name: Soap and body lotion
Buy from New Look
£5

Lovely soap and lotion in pump dispenser and in a metal rack. Looks and smells like the stuff they have at my gym which is well over £10 a bottle. A bargain.

Dusky14

Name of present? Greetings from home
Do you make it or buy it? Buy it and make it
Total Cost? Less than £5
Details (the more the better). Great pressie for friends or relatives who are abroad. Someone buys a nice scrapbook and all the recipients' friends and family provide photos and write messages in the book. Great way to make sure the absent friend keeps up to date with all the gossip back home and a nice keepsake. It also keeps postage down as there is only one parcel to send abroad instead of loads.

kazz_3

cinema tickets

carolf_2

Name of present? Cancer Research - Give In Celebration web site
Do you make it or buy it? Make it online via the web site
Total Cost? Nothing - but you can use your fiver to set the ball rolling if you like!
Details (the more the better) Cancer Research have an online web tool that allows you to set up a 'Celebration' web page to mark stuff like Xmas, birthdays or anniversaries. Basically you could, for example, set up a page for your family for Xmas - you can choose from their designs and/or use your own photo and write your own festive message in there. You can then email or ask for special donation slips to send out to family/friends etc telling them about your page and asking them to donate to the charity instead of giving you a Xmas gift. Donations can be made online or offline. You (and anybody else that gets to take part) can see how much you've raised on the page if you like - you can also see lists of people that give and they can leave messages if they like.
Where possible please add a link if it's an online offer http://www.giveincelebration.org/