The Thrifty Gifty Girls 'n' Guys 2009 (Organised & Money Neutral for All Occasions)

sharronloves2spend

mum2one wrote: »

Had a lovely day, have to confess had a lie in......not gd, but took dd to an Ice cream farm by Chester, had a fab time, I had the most gorgeous icecream, christmas pudding, and dd had baileys icecream.

Then hit Tesco on the way home only coz I wanted the 3 for £20 drinks offer, one of our xmas visitors only drinks Stella, and luckly it was in with the offer.

Panto tomorrow, thanking dd, mum and dad, then be mad packing ready for Chester on Mon.

Rack your brains, we're haveing a family debate whether we should get the postman an xmas prezzie / £5 tip.......... he's only been on the round 3 mths. What does everyone else think.

Does your postman give you a good service e.g close your gate deliver wrongly addressed mail to you????? If so then i would go ahead and give him the money. Hubs is a postie and although this sounds really ungrateful(which he isn't, afterall you don't have to give anything!!) and last year he came home with bottles of whiskey etc(which we don't drink) that would have cost in excess of a fiver he would have much preffered the money no matter how small the amount. Unless you know him well and know his likes/dislikes.

Sorry for the loooong ramble
sharron

Keeping_Positive

Yesterdays list

[strike]Washing up and cleaning kitchen[/strike]
[strike]Baking mince pies and banana muffins with almost black bananas[/strike]
[strike]Thoughly tiding and sorting kids room including a massive throughout and looking for ebayable/carboot stuff.[/strike]
[strike]Wrapping more xmas pressies[/strike]
[strike]Looking at turkey crown instructions so I know how long to defrost/cook.[/strike]

Hope thats along the right lines for this thread.

:j Woohoo Cant believe I actually finished a list. With lots of help from my lovely OH though:j

KPxx

scuzz

Evening all

Very smug here. Today I have

Exchanged presents with best friend
Made truffles
Made fudge
made peanut butter cups
made caramel shortbreads


Mum has made

mince pies
dinner!!!! - roast rooster, with all the trimmings.

So all-in-all a very successful day:T :T

Tiara_2

Yay I've finished 4 tasks from my list Feeling better already

[strike]Wrap presents[/strike]
[strike]Write work Christmas cards[/strike]
[strike]Hand deliver last of the cards to neighbours etc[/strike]
[strike]Finish last 4 hampers[/strike]
Drop off hampers to 2 friends
Ice and decorate Christmas cake
Make gingerbread house
Clean kitchen
Clean bathroom
Tidy spare room (currently full of hampers in various stages of being finished, and random presents all over the floor and bed :eek:)

clarabella23

Hiya every1, just thought i'd come see how everyones doing-3 DAYS TO GO!!!!:T
Scrubbed my house yesterday as thats my last day off til christmas day itself...aaargh!!! and everyones coming round after lunch as well so really don't want them to know how disgusting we really are in here!!
To do this week:

Vacuum and mop all floors yet again
Get fresh veg, bread etc, prob xmas eve
try and find somewhere to hide ebay rubbish
wrap pressies for DDs stocking-everything else wrapped
Try and decide what to buy in the sale at work and hide it before christmas eve when theres nothing left!Determined to only buy things for next year this time. and maybe an outfit 4 tyla. and a dressing gown 4 me. BUT THATS IT!!!;)

loveday69

Keeping_Positive wrote: »

Yesterdays list

[strike]Washing up and cleaning kitchen[/strike]
[strike]Baking mince pies and banana muffins with almost black bananas[/strike]
[strike]Thoughly tiding and sorting kids room including a massive throughout and looking for ebayable/carboot stuff.[/strike]
[strike]Wrapping more xmas pressies[/strike]
[strike]Looking at turkey crown instructions so I know how long to defrost/cook.[/strike]

Hope thats along the right lines for this thread.

:j Woohoo Cant believe I actually finished a list. With lots of help from my lovely OH though:j

KPxx

Well Done :T you and your OH

loveday69

scuzz wrote: »

Evening all

Very smug here. Today I have

Exchanged presents with best friend
Made truffles
Made fudge
made peanut butter cups
made caramel shortbreads


Mum has made

mince pies
dinner!!!! - roast rooster, with all the trimmings.

So all-in-all a very successful day:T :T

Well Done to you and your Mum :T

kalojac

Haven't been on for about a week again, but my goodness everyone has been busy.

Pinkladymel - are you managing to contain your xmas excitment?
Sarah - how are you getting on - my middle DS Logan has gotten a remote control Dalek for one of his parcels- can't wait to get a shotty

My list for this week is:

Deliver remaining 5 or 6 cards.
Swap pressies with Best Friend - tomorrow
Deliver sparkle dust and xmas balloons to nieces and nephews
Tidy house
Mop floors
Clean and buff the sofa

That's my list for now til xmas eve, I will post my xmas eve list on Tuesday night.

Well done everyone x

emily_jackson

Hi,

Just wanted to inform you that DH & I are moving into the bungalow tomorrow :j but can't have broadband again until January :mad: so I'll try to post from the library computer but obviously won't be able to post as much. So thanks for all your help in getting me organised for Xmas :T :A and hope you all have a brilliant Xmas :beer: _party_ :dance: :rudolf: :xmastree: :xmassmile :xmassign: :snow_laug :snow_grin :santa2:

mum2one

SugarSpun wrote: »

I'm on the good list today!

I bought wrapping paper and cards for the birthday stuff, an impulse gift too - and I made an appointment to get a marriage licence and organised meeting the coordinator at the venue I insist upon having. AND my beloved's visa finally turned up so he will be arriving in time for Christmas. We were concerned that he wouldn't get here in time but he'll be here on Sunday!

Happy day - congratulations jamtart, and I'm glad you're mostly all feeling better. Sorry to anyone who isn't - drink lots of juice.

Hope oh got there safely. xx