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

lynne_kelly

Name of present - mix & match
Make or buy - Buy
Total cost - as much or as little as you want to pay
Details - Fill a shoe box with all the memories of childhood eg. crayons, colouring book, bubbles, yo-yo, "old maid" & snap cards, clackers, jax, slinky spring, dod-to-dot, comic & sweets from the past. You can put as much or as little as you want and if you know the person well you may know what their favourite items were when they were young.
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smarterbytheminute

• Name of present? Pass the Parcel

• Do you make it or buy it? Make It

• Total Cost? few pennies!

• Details (the more the better) This can work for both kids and grown-ups if they have the Christmas spirit.
  
• Step1: First of all, most of us get free newspapers or mags through the letter box on a regular basis so save these.
• Step 2: Go find an array of small items that the kids have forgotten about that are tucked away in the corner of their rooms or in a drawer, or perhaps that perfume or lipstick the wife didn't quite like, the screwdriver the husband's never got around to using, in fact anything that you know has been put aside or forgotten for a while by your loved ones, young or old(er)!!!!!
• Step 3: Wrap said items separately in various freebie newspapers or magazines (one page for each item). If you use a little sellotape here then the cost will be just a few pennies.
• Step 4: Taking wrapped items randomly, re-wrap everything using a new page from your free newspapers for each item until you have a large parcel.
• Step 5: Get the family's favourite music track on... pass the parcel around... stopping the music intermittently and let the person who has the parcel in his/her sticky little mitts open the first wrap and so on to the next pause in the music....dad might just get that cracking little key-ring that he liked or little miss might end up with mum's perfume or lipstick and junior, well, he's always wanted a scewdriver, hasn't he? A good way of recycling within the family or with friends too.
  
• Anyway, the name of the game is fun and who didn't enjoy pass the parcel when they were young). (Even if you decide to give them back at the end the fun is in the anticipation of opening that parcel and that is totally free!!)
  

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

Chocs_Mum

• Name of present? Wedding guest book
• Do you make it or buy it? Both
• Total Cost? £5
• Details (the more the better) Probably not one that everyone can use but it was the most thoughtful and romantic gift I ever received. On my wedding day I forgot to leave out the guest book and was really upset that I didn't have peoples messages from the day. On our 1 year wedding anniversary my husband presented me with a small wedding guest book which he had sent all around the country to all of our friends and family who came to our wedding and got them to write messages in it. What an old romantic!

suzykoshka

Name of present? Personalized Charity Shop Treasure
Do you make it or buy it? Both
Total Cost? £5
Details (the more the better) Get together all the scrap pieces of wrapping paper, ribbon, decorations, coloured pens, photos, any spare photoframes, souvenirs etc and put them all into a room. Then go out with your partner or maybe a friend and have a £5 charity shop challenge. Put a time limit on it so that you have a certain amount of time to find your partner a gift/gifts. Then back at home you each choose materials from the bits you collected earlier and personalise what you have bought. Depending on how creative you are feeling you can do anything!Ideas would be customising an item of clothing/bag(usually below £5 in a charity shop), customising vases/glasses/clocks or whatever else you can find.A nice idea is to include a little decorative box or something similar which you can put a love letter in to find. Some charity shops also sell things like fair trade chocolate and other similar gifts. Remember to be secretive about which materials you are using and remember not to exchange the gifts until christmas day!

bucks73

Name of present? Plop Trumps
Do you make it or buy it? buy
Total Cost? £4.95 + p&P
Details (the more the better)
Isn't that what all heroes do. Brought to you from the whirrings of an 11 year old mind, it's not Top Trumps, it's Plop Trumps, buy them on dadcando, this is our first real you-got-to-buy-it product. Already reviewed as "the freshest thing to come out of the Top Trumps genre", and "the coolest kids thing in the history of the world ever..." we don't think there's anyone who doesn't secretly (or openly) find this fascinating. As well as some very scientific pictures specially taken for dadcando and some great vital statistics, each card has a very educational and interesting factoid on it. For example, did you know that a single locust can eat its own weight in food per day, and as the average swarm covers 100 square kilometres and is made up of tens of billions of locusts, together a swarm can eat 70,000 tonnes of food each day. You wouldn't want to see one of those coming if you were just about to harvest your crops! Enormous fun to play, huge kudos to own, get your here.
Where possible please add a link if it's an online offer LINK HERE

Isn't that what all heroes do. Brought to you from the whirrings of an 11 year old mind, it's not Top Trumps, it's Plop Trumps, buy them on dadcando, this is our first real you-got-to-buy-it product. Already reviewed as "the freshest thing to come out of the Top Trumps genre", and "the coolest kids thing in the history of the world ever..." we don't think there's anyone who doesn't secretly (or openly) find this fascinating. As well as some very scientific pictures specially taken for dadcando and some great vital statistics, each card has a very educational and interesting factoid on it. For example, did you know that a single locust can eat its own weight in food per day, and as the average swarm covers 100 square kilometres and is made up of tens of billions of locusts, together a swarm can eat 70,000 tonnes of food each day. You wouldn't want to see one of those coming if you were just about to harvest your crops! Enormous fun to play, huge kudos to own, get your here.

Fioni

First ever post so be gentle with me....;)

Name of present? Personal Photo Video
Do you make it or buy it? Make it
Total Cost? free to anyone with Movie Maker or similar tool on computer. Cost of a disc to burn it onto if you want. A 25 packs of discs at Tescos are £2.99
Details Using Movie Maker you arrange your favourite photos on a slide show. You can then add music, captions and effects so its plays like a video. You can add a title and a credit list at the end. Once finished you can burn it to disc or send on an email. I made one for all my friends last christmas using fun group pics I'd collected all year. It made a fantastic keepsake and showed a year full of memories including my best friends wedding. Not only are they great fun to make but they're really personal and bound to put a smile on anyones face. If you live far from friends or family they're a great way to share moments they might have missed and more fun then just posting pictures on a website. Movie Maker is also very simple to use so not just for the computer savvy people.

Pink_Pig_3

First post, hope I've done OK!

Name of present? Wrapped Gift of Love / friendship
Do you make it or buy it? Make
Total Cost? Almost free! Wrapping paper and matchbox (or small box)
Details (the more the better) Wrap a small matchbox (or similar) in nice gift wrap and add a tiny label which reads:
Here's a very special gift
which you can never see
the reason it's so special is
it's just for you from me.

You never can unwrap it
Please leave the ribbon tied
Just hold the box and think of me
It's filled with love inside.

Add a tiny bow or get the kids to decorate their own wrapping paper. Add sticky magnet tape on the back if you want and it's a perfect fridge magnet for any Mum, Nan, Aunt or friend!

:j Loving all the great ideas on here!

russellxena_2

• Name of present : Photo keepsake Album
• Do you make it or buy it? Buy and make
• Total Cost? £2-£5
• Details (the more the better)

Buy a cheap photo album, then fill it with old photos,
For husband,wife, boy/girlfriends start with photos of when you first met up untill today
For teenagers baby pics upto present day.

(also you will enjoy a afternoon of looking through old pics)

wizwoz5775

Name of present? Ticket to see your favourite show
Do you make it or buy it? Neither
Total Cost? Free
Details (the more the better) All you need to do is register at http://www.applausestore.com/index.php once you have registered you can then choose from a huge variety of shows including Xfactor or Dancing on Ice etc... etc... A brilliant gift for all the family - there is such a large list of shows you can see and the best part is that the tickets are free!

:j

russellxena_2

• Name of present: 6 weeks of dvd rental
• Do you make it or buy it :buy it
• Total Cost: From around £4 upwards
• Details
• Arrange for you partner or other family member a month of dvd rentals, usually get 2 weeks free then pay a month after that.
• It would be a cheap way to spend January with dvd nights!
• Where possible please add a link if it's an online offer
• try www.lovefilm.com or www.tesco.com