Win £200. Festive Fivers Competition 2008: The best Xmas pressies for under £5

Jammygal

Name of present: Hot bunny microwavable bed warmer
Make or Buy: Buy
Total Cost: 3.99
Details: http://www.play.com/Gadgets/Gadgets/4-/6535998/Hot-Bunny-Microwavable-Bed-Warmer/Product.html
These are great for kids and adults alike to warm you up on cold winter nights!

Name of present: Magical flying lantern
Make or Buy:Buy
Total Cost: £2.99
Details:http://www.play.com/Gadgets/Gadgets/4-/5985977/Magical-Flying-Lantern/Product.html
These are amazing and float up in the sky making a great focal point at a party/ get together.
Name of present: Spa hot rocks
Make or Buy:Buy
Total Cost: 3.99
Details: http://www.play.com/Gadgets/Gadgets/4-/3336405/Spa-Hot-Rocks/Product.html
These stones can be used for massage or to help ease back/ leg pain etc. Great for partners, parents or grandparents etc

chocaholic123

A present for some one who won't downshift groceries. Spend upto £5 on downshift groceries that they would normally buy. Get a free cardboard box from the supermarket a size that you could put your down shift items in & wrap in festive paper. Most supermarkets have got some good offers on, don't forget to add some festive items, Mince pies, x-mas pud. You'll find that they'll use the tins & packets you've brought and I bet they won't notice the change too much. I did this two years ago for my mother-in-law and she hasn't looked back since.

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TruCovGirl

Name of present? Girls Survival Kit
Do you make it or buy it? Both
Total Cost? Under a fiver
Details (the more the better)
This survival kit is for teenage girls. Simply get a box, decorated or plain, then make a label saying "Survival Kit". Then you buy little treats like lip glosses, small choccies, make-up and stationery.

TruCovGirl

Name of present? Personalised Chocolate
Do you make it or buy it? Make it
Total Cost? Around £2ish
Details (the more the better)
Melt some chocolate and put it in a rectangular tray. Add small sweeties marshmallows and smarties and so on. You could also add there name in icing or white chocolate. After it has been refrigerated you can wrap it up in cellophane and a ribbon.

TruCovGirl

Name of present? Mixed CD/DVD
Do you make it or buy it? Make It
Total Cost? £0.20p
Details (the more the better)
If you use a blank CD or DVD yyou can put favourite songs or video clips on there for that someone special.

shzbaby

One for ADULTS ONLY!!!

Name of present? Your knickers in an envelope!!!
Do you make it or buy it? Buy the envelope, use your best panties!!
Total Cost? Cost of an envelope
Details (the more the better)
Obviously a present for your partner, can be given if going out for a romantic meal etc (best not around the family dinner table!!). Cheap but extremely cheerful...:A

gbezz

Name of present? Hand-made button earrings
Do you make it or buy it? Make It
Total Cost? £1.60
Details (the more the better) I got this idea when I bought a pair of button earings from Camden market earlier this year...for £10! So yesterday I bought 2 round silver buttons (with a cute heart design) from John Lewis (65p each) and made them into a pair of funky earings by super gluing earing posts onto the back. You can't even tell these started their life as buttons, but even if you choose bog-standard bright coloured buttons this adds to their uniqueness.

lil_me

1. Poundland calendar where you put your own digital photos you print yourself in £1, includes the photo paper so just ink on top of that, with ink costing me less than £3 each. You do have to make it yourself but I find it better to have the time to choose your own photos at home.

2. Buying a card and putting the £5 in it with a note to my friends who are new parents saying 'get the first drink on me and I will babysit so you can have a night out together' which I am certain will be appreciated. Cost £5 and a few hours of my time. Doesn't take much making, you could print a fancy voucher or something but not necessary.

3. Photo bauble bought last year for a relative, she was saying how she wished her Mam was there who recently passed away, so we did her a photo bauble of her Mam to hang on the tree, now her Mam is with them every Christmas. £3.99 for bauble and a few pence to copy a photo.

4. Cheques offering to do something that matters, from housework to baby sitting, a few hours off for a busy Mum so she can goto the sales without junior dragging on her leg can sometimes be a great gift.

Always been someone who prefers to put thought in rather than cash. Not saying I am tight, spent several hundred on a laptop for someone last year and a few hundred on some spa days, but what mattered was why I got them.

donstermonster

Please put your answer in the following format

• Name of present?

Emergency High 5 Cash Tree

• Do you make it or buy it?

Make it

• Total Cost?

£5

• Details (the more the better)

Take an empty plastic Coke bottle. Remove the label and thoroughly wash and dry it

Put a £5 note in the bottle and put the lid back on

Write on the bottle with a marker pen or print out on computer a piece of paper that say

"Emergency credit crunch £5 Cash Tree - only open in an emergency
If you keep this intact for a year another £5 will be added (note: from you as a present for next year) , if you use it before then that is fine as long as it is in an Emergency only

• Where possible please add a link if it's an online offer

WONDERFULWENDY

NAME OF PRESENT- BOOK OR AUDIO BOOK
MAKE OR BUY- BUY
COST- £3.75
DETAILS- WWW.GREENMETROPOLIS.CO.UK
BUY BOOKS ANY SORT PAST AND PRESENT OR AUDIO BOOKS ALL FOR £3.75 NO MATTER WHAT TYPE OF BOOK. THIS INCLUDES P & P.
ALSO YOU CAN SELL YOUR BOOKS AND GET £3.00 PER BOOK !!! IT REALLY WORKS.
EVERY BOOK YOU SELL HELPS TO PLANT A TREE