Great Things You Should Buy Now For Next Christmas Hunt

boysmum3

was in Asda today and they had shelf full of dinosaur stationary sets in a plastic case for 75p - down from £3 - also fairy jewellry making kit in pink plastic case for same price - sure will use for kids party in year if not its only about 349 days til Christmas!
Asda's xmas cards and wrapping stuff were all reduced too - gift bags for 22p - really pretty hand finished cards for 80p i also got a wrapping set from the something special range - ribbon handmade paper matching tag in white and silver - 60p down from £2.47 - its perfect for a wedding present it has stars on but its not over Christmassy!

amanda40

I got lovely 3d Christmas cards from Boots for 98p for 5 - not a great bargain but they are lovely and were £4 a pack to begin with.

Marigold123

Keep all the stuff you were given this year that you don't want, and label it carefully, saying who it was from. Then re-cycle them next Christmas, checking the labels carefully, to make sure you only give things to people who DON'T know the people they came from!

It might sound mean, but if you're like me and generally get a number of things that are nice, but that you don't really want, this has got to be the ultimate in money-saving Christmas presents.

I actually bought almost nothing in the way of Christmas pressies this year, as I went mad at the end of January, mainly in Boots, and bought nearly all of my next year's presents at 25% or less of the normal price. Hero or what?

I'm going to try to do a similar thing this year.

Grumpysally

The problems I find with post Christmas bargin hunting is that a, I'm generally just not that organised. b, I'm fed up of shopping by now. c, I've already spent this months wage on last Christmas, plus I have two birthdays to buy for DD2 and OH.(OH would be happy to get nothing but I kick up a fuss if I get the same so have to make an effort.)
However, having been inspired by reading all the above I am planning to go into town, setting my self the challenge of spending only £25, to try and get birthday pressies for the next year. Only problem is finding a babysitter for my 3yr old otherwise any savings will be used up in bribes for her to behave and a strong coffee to keep me going or creche fees.
Planning to go next week. Will use credit card but pay off as soon as get paid so no interest.
I'll let you know how I go on.

bigdave_4

I have never figured out how to add topics, so far I have only made good use of other peoples information. Yesterday ASDA Barnsley had wrapping paper on sale at 3pence per roll.

Bigdave

amazon_spice

Couple of my local chemists have cheap smellies gift sets and other novelty Christmas stuff at half price. They need the space.

mummysaver

Poppy9 wrote:

M&S have reduced their CD's to £1. Some nice compilation discs suitable as birthday gifts.

Also their kids nail and lip gloss sets down from £10 to £1. Ideal birthday presents and stocking fillers for next year.

Finally all their reduced jewellery is now £1 too.

Thanks for this, got some reduced biscuits and also a flask reduced to £1.00 (not sure who will be receiving that one yet, but perhaps I should use it to carry a cup of coffee for when all this bargain hunting gets too much!), but now I shall return to M&S, luckily it's opposite Claires Accessories who have their 10 items for £5.00 back on, and not far from Boots, so that I can get some more free Time Delay stuff!

Polly

Sainsburys have reduced all their Christmas boxed biccies from £3.49 to 89p. I now have 15 boxes under my stairs. Anyone fancy a cuppa! They're all dated July/Aug 06 so should see me well into the year. They also have Lindt chocs down from £4.99 to £2.49 but only the dark choc - the milk ones must sell all year round. This is the first year that I have shopped 'ahead' and now have pressies for all but 3 of my relatives labelled and put away. Thanks for all the great tips!

Sarahsaver

Boots gift sets!
I only went in to get the change one thing vouchers and ended up getting £50 worth of gift sets for around a tenner. They are in nice bags/boxes which i needed anyway as i am decluttering (supposedly) so what i will do is open them up, put the things in storage, use what i need and anything else is useful either for standby birthday presents or next xmas!
Also dressing up costumes are cheap in woolworth's, some as low as 75p, and you could get party clothes for kids for next year.
Got lovely belts in Gap reduced from £25 down to £3.97, metallic leather. Unfortunately I have not felt able to save those for anyone else but myself!

libitina_2

just been to local Wyvale garden centre, 75% off xmas decs and 50% off lights.Finishes Monday. Just spent a fiver on 2 bags of decs.