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

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Just wanted to say a big Merry Christmas to you all, I hope that Santa brings you everything you desire and 2009 is a happy, healthy, wealthy year for all. Thanks for all your ideas and motivation.

sylphraven

Morning all, just having a coffee break before tackling the last of the housework & cooking. Upstairs is shining like a new pin & my backs holding up this morn.

Hoping LO will goto bed on time again tonight as I'm hoping to finish wrapping the pressies, so tomorrow evening I can enjoy the festivities.

Right, back to it

jamtart6

We got the keys to the house! I'm so hyper!! :j:j:j What a brill xmas present!!


Merry Christmas folks!

SugarSpun

That's wonderful!

We're going to do the very last of the food shopping today, then tomorrow my grandmother's birthday and a friend's leaving party and then we're all done and ready to enjoy the season! Hurrah!

Merry Christmas everyone. Enjoy your holidays!

jexysbird

Hi Everyone.

Will be joining you properly in the New year, I've been following the xmas thread and this one for the last couple of months and have found it encourages me to get things done!

I had wrapped all presents until last night, when I went to Sainsburys to get last foodie bits and ended up buying a 1/2 price dalek helmet which my dds wanted but I refuse to pay £40 for it! bit of an impulse buy really Im afraid to say, as had done all my spreadsheets to work out my xmas budget! Oh well, girls will love it and I'm sure they will drive us mad with it.

Starting Jan we are going to do the 'live on £4000 a year challenge' which hopefully combined with this thread will make it easier, so we can pay the mortgage off in 3 years or sooner.

My to do list for the rest of today;
Change beds
Clean bathrooms
Wrap final present( and any others hubby 'may' come home with later)!
Visit Santa this afternoon if I feel well enough to take girls- if not it will be tomorrow
Deliver some presents
Go to docs to pick up prescriptions
Make a baked cheesecake or pavlova -not sure which yet as fancy both!
Put paperwork away
Ironing-done all washing, I have an empty bin for once! hooray!
and whatever else I come across!
For once I am virtually organised....although I woke up feeling like the dreaded flu is on the way, dosing myself up and will get an early night tonight!

Happy Christmas to everyone and looking forward to joining you all in the New Year!!
:santa2:

mistyw1973

Afternoon all
Wow...I braved Mr T this morning to get the final food shop (just needed the fresh bits) and what a nightmare...we were there for 11...and they had already run out of loose brussels !! :mad:

Luckily there were a few pre packed ones left, so we have them...but it was absolutely heaving !!
Am now just doing the final bits around the house....going to set the table, then get rid of the bit of ironing...then pretty much done !!:D

Just wanted to take the opportunity to wish you and your families a happy, healthy, and merry Christmas, and look forward to joining in again in the New Year...to get ready for Christmas 2009 :eek:

Merry Christmas everyone X

:santa2:

chocolate.orange_2

Jammy what a great christmas presant :j

Sorry i havent been here. Its been a mixture of tissues and cleaning up here. Yes my dreaded cold returned.. Luckily my ears are not too bad this time

Well i only have a small list, which i will probably end up adding too :rotfl:

Collect DS and his gf from their friends house.
Get said DS and gf to wash car , gf to sort middle sons hair ( hes having plaits not got visitors :rotfl: ).They also need to deliver my last gift to his friends family
Little DS is off to his friends house for tea and so thats 1 less to worry about
Middle DS is coming with me then his friend is coming over,Luckily they just play on xbox so i can carry on and not have to entertain them
DH is at work until 4 and at work tomorrow :eek: until 2
I have 2 beds to strip and remake
General tidy up of living room
Kitchen blast
Put away shopping that my friend is out picking up for me now :rotfl: She just rang and iceland delivery is between 7-9

Thats about it then... me all done
Thankfully we are off to my mums for Christmas day, so not much for me to prepare..

I must say this has been the most stress free year ever !!! Well Christmas :rotfl: I havent spent an arm or a leg. Have gifts already put away for next year ( maybe a couple for year after too :rotfl: ) Now my aim for this year is to be as money neutral as i can for any extras i buy next year. Which will be my 3 sons gifts

Thankyou to all who have helped me along the way this year
Inspired me to start a new hobby ( PLM and Scrapbooking)
All the new friends i have met along the way

Happy Christmas to everyone
Heres to a money neutral 2009 :santa2:

scuzz

:xmastree: :snow_grin :rudolf: :xmassmile :santa2: :snow_laug :xmassign:

I'm officially ready! Got the turkey today which was the last thing on the list:T

On the down side, had to pay out nearly £200 to get the car fixed_pale_ :eek: Need to start getting some of the money owed me by Mum back now. She thinks I'm made of the stuff instead of struggling to cope.

Happy Christmas Eve Eve everyone

mum2one

Had a gd day, dd stayed in with mum, lot better had the ds and the sky control.......took dad shopping, hit the sale in Woolworths, anyone whos got a birthday party to do, the knock nacks are 70% off, got
Disney Invites 15p pack 8
Girls fairy plates 8p for 8
Boys football plates 44p for 8
7 candle 15p
party bag goodies reduced 29p pck
girls pink mini spirographs 6p each

DD not 7 until end of Sept............but at those prices couldnt resist.

Did feel guilty and brought dd Girls Aloud CD as a get well present.......so shes asked can she be ill more often its fun.........!!

Done half fresh shopping, few bits from Tesco tomorrow, then were sorted,roll on xmas dinner - in the pub - courtesy of the money saved from using money off vouchers at Tesco!! So thank u Mr T. x

furrypig

Watched my 25th Christmas film today with the family!! Tee hee hee and I still haven't watched the nightmare before CHristmas!!
Well done again to everyone out there, I think we have all done so well (well most have done better than me but that's another story!!) I am going to make up about 6 or 8 snowman soups and about 6 lots of reindeer food for my Christmas eve visitors to take with them and I still need to marzipan the cake! Just got hubby's and kids' pressies to wrap now which is fine as I love doing the wrapping and hope to do some of kids tonight once they are in bed. Made mum and dad a mini hamper each, sister a little choccy one, cousin a sexy hamper and neice a drinks party hamper looking cute under the tree!!

Thanks for continued support, happy Christmas Eve Eve to all xxx