Great Things You Should Buy Now For Next Christmas Hunt

madshopper_2

TK Maxx is a great place, just come back with Lee Cooper boxers for £1 pair, a jeff banks jumper for £4.40 instead of £18, Xmas wreath £2

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greenishfingers wrote:

I buy loads of stuff in the sales, like a lot of other people here! So far I've bought mini spirits (always good stocking fillers) and fruits in liquers, make-up, smellies, mugs, toys and a bunch of other stuff. I've ticked off about half the people on my list for this year, and top bargain so far has to be some Bob the builder brio sets (rrp £10) reduced to £3 in TK Maxx. I got 4, and they look great as quality presents for little ones! :j :j

Am looking forward to some mine sweeping next week hopefully, but last year I got overexcited and bought a load more than I needed because it was cheap. Wish me luck!

Sarahsaver

jazzyjustlaw wrote:

I have been looking for christmas decorations, any ideas guys?

i got loads from poundstretcher just b4 christmas, they reduced all their stuff. I am keeping my kids' homemade decorations for next year as it will be a lovely reminder of how excited they were xmas just gone. Daughter wants another tree next year so we can have a more 'grown up' decor on it, she wants to go all themed. 8 year olds eh! Any cheap trees anywhere?
If you know a baby who was born recently you could be really thrifty - if you have saved your newspapers for recycling give them the newspaper from their 1st xmas (eve) or the 1st day of 'their' year. Stick it in a pretty folder from poundland and what a thoughtful gift!
I am saving the fat from my duck, how long will that keep? It's a gourmet item!

ashy_mashy

Sorry, I'll delete this after sarahsaver reads it. Sarahsaver, I tried PMing you but your inbox is full and there's no email address, how shall I contact you?

Sarahsaver

my inbox now has some room in it

MDUK

I have just stocked up Tescos at Crown point in Denton (it is a non-food store) they must be shipping it in from other stores as it was arriving this morning.

Wrapping paper from 17-68p a roll (about a quarter of original price) packs of cards from 11p!, 50p for a pack of 10 nice ones. crackers again about a quarter of original price. A load of Bratz items, purses, pedicure, make up from £ to 75p (i am going to use them as prizes at Daughters party) brats colouring sets for about £3.50. some really nice Baubles originally 3 for £6 down to £1.50. worth a detour but it was going quick.

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rubytuesday

£3.50 wrapping paper finally reduced to a pound a roll in M and S. Thats a bit more like it. Also got a tyre pressure guage for a quid, a kids telescope for less than half price and a milk frother for half price. Woolworths have some good bargins at the moment. The other week I bought a couple of gardining sets, trowel fork etc reduced from £19.99 to £4.99 and they still have a few of these left.

pscandrett

rubytuesday wrote:

I actually put back some Christmas wrapping paper in M and S the other day as the sale price worked out at only £1 cheaper than when it was buy two get one free and I was not very impressed with that!!

I noticed the same with Boots; they had a lot of their stuff on buy two get one free before Christmas; now that offer is not valid, but everything's got 1/3 off. Which is the same thing... except you don't need to purchase three items.

Incidentally, I tend not to buy Christmas stuff in advance (although I bought some Christmas cards at a car boot sale in July last year for something like 20p per pack!) but I do buy the not-Christmassy wrapping paper in the sales. That is, plain red, or patterned gold papers that aren't overtly Christmassy are often reduced; I then use that for wrapping things throughout the year!

HTH someone.

Sarahsaver

rubytuesday wrote:

£3.50 wrapping paper finally reduced to a pound a roll in M and S. Thats a bit more like it. Also got a tyre pressure guage for a quid, a kids telescope for less than half price and a milk frother for half price. Woolworths have some good bargins at the moment. The other week I bought a couple of gardining sets, trowel fork etc reduced from £19.99 to £4.99 and they still have a few of these left.

a lot of the 'sale' stuff in woolies was not there before christmas....
SPOOKY, is this a genuine sale?
do do do do do do do do.... :rolleyes:

rubytuesday

Some off it is xmas stuff reduced and a lot of stuff is special offer e.g food storage containers etc I felt that they had some pretty good deals but my arms were full so couldn't buy anything else today!!

sans_2

MDUK wrote:

I have just stocked up Tescos at Crown point in Denton (it is a non-food store) they must be shipping it in from other stores as it was arriving this morning.

Wrapping paper from 17-68p a roll (about a quarter of original price) packs of cards from 11p!, 50p for a pack of 10 nice ones. crackers again about a quarter of original price. A load of Bratz items, purses, pedicure, make up from £ to 75p (i am going to use them as prizes at Daughters party) brats colouring sets for about £3.50. some really nice Baubles originally 3 for £6 down to £1.50. worth a detour but it was going quick.

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Tescos are one of the best for their reductions, even my sister was impressed. We nipped in to get some food shopping but ended up browsing the Chistmas sales isle for ages, snapped up 2 different gift bags for wine at 23p (originally 93p) and 35p (originally over £1 but gave sister so don't know exact price), 2 x rolls of 10mtr X'mas wrap at 29p a roll, X'mas tree ornament at 49p (originally £1.97), 20 pk of Xmas cards at 49p and 10 pack of X'mas cards at 36p (originally £1.44). Honestly could have went mad in there snapping up all the gr8 items but had to really restrain myself.