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

pinkladymel

I haven't photographed the snowman page yet. On your blog I left you a comment about it.

It is easy to do.. I'll run you through how to do it no probs Jammy. Get yourself a copy of PSP off corel and then we will crack on

Beki

pinkladymel wrote: »

Christmas Turkey
I know that a lot of people will by buying their birds fresh and already have them ordered but for those of us who buy them frozen.. PLEASE get them soon. I know there seems to be a lot of them right now but there is a shortage this year. Remember we had the bird flu outbreak? Then a fortnight ago the turkey farmers went on strike. Get your turkeys!!

The cheapest I have seen is Asda but I am not sure if anyone else can find one cheaper. I know they was doing the cheap crowns in Aldis but I can't be bothered to travel there LOL

for the first time ever, we're getting 2 large free range chickens! we've all admitted we prefer chicken to turkey anyway, and it's always such a faff trying to cook it thoroughly without it drying out etc... that it seemed like the only sensible option for this household :beer: not only that, but for the last few years it's cost us well in excess of £45 for a free range local turkey! this year, with 2 free range chooks it'll be £15 - £20 maximum! :beer:

Triggles

We talked about getting a turkey for Christmas, but everyone seems to prefer beef - in fact, were a bit horrified at the suggestion of turkey - so I guess it's beef for our house this year again.

Yay - my £40 from cashbackkings finally went through - so I quickly sent that off to my bank account. Now I just have £50 from Quidco I'm still waiting on. I'm trying to think of the best way to save money for next Christmas - putting a certain amount aside each month sometimes gets to be a bit of a frustration as stuff comes up - I'd rather do it by using vouchers and such so it's free - so I'm going to take an hour or so this weekend and write down the different sites I want to work with to earn vouchers - pigsback has been a disappointment thus far, but I'll take another look at it just in case. Can't believe I'm already thinking about 2009 Christmas.

Beki

Updated list!!!

1.[STRIKE] wrap advent sweeties for nan and uncle, and add the advent poem & some gold foil, put in a jiffy and post first class today[/STRIKE]


2. Laminate personalised xmas stories, certificates etc etc for kids/nans/grandads - HALF DONE

3. [strike]wrap and basket-up dd's, ds's, dad's and DH's advent baskets :eek: feel like crying now[/strike] :rotfl:

4. [strike]find out more about the elf-tradition so i can start it for the kids sometime this week (read up breifly about it last night at 1am, but was too tired to take it in, so gotta do some reading and FAST!!!)[/strike] - SCRAPPED THIS ONE - TOO MUCH ELSE TO DO!!!

5. write christmas cards for friends and family - have too many to do, and not sure how i'm going to do it all - HALF DONE

6. get some more presents for - ds, [STRIKE]a couple for dd[/STRIKE], a couple of small token pressies for uncle's hamper, couple more token pressies for dad's hamper, [STRIKE]present for 4 x BIL's (not all mine - some OH's! lol), present for nephew[/STRIKE]

7. [STRIKE]
buy some more choclate coins for 'pots of gold' (i ate the last lot :rotfl: )

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8. make pots of gold

9. [strike]make reindeer food[/strike]

10. finish snowman soups (done a few already)

11. [STRIKE]order cello wrap & more cones[/STRIKE]

12. make up everyone's xmas eve hampers (doing mum & dad, uncle, nan, ds, dd, and a surprise one for me & OH that he doesn't know about)

13. make up everyone's hampers for xmas day

14. wrap all other presents - MOSTLY DONE

15. [STRIKE]put up ceiling decorations[/STRIKE]

16. [STRIKE]take down tree decorations and re-decorate tree (doesn't look right at the mo [/STRIKE]:rotfl: )

17. clean the house from top to bottom as it's in a right state at the mo, due to all the 'stuff' going on

18. make the 'balls of life' for mum & dad, uncle, best friend, nan, & OH

19. make up, and decorate - nan's memories jar, dd's journal jar, OH's tottenham facts jar, mum's 'special things & memories' jar, dad's 'bob marley & reggae facts' jar, uncle's 'back in the day' jar, BIL's '50 things a father-to-be should know' funny jar (him and my sister are due their first baby on may 1st)

20. think of more special things to do for people that don't cost a lot of money :rotfl:

have done one more special thing today wrapped little silver bells in cello and added a tag (See below).

also did the reindeer food! :T just need to print more reindeer food tag and laminate and attach!

photies!!

one snowman soup, minus the cello and tag



snowman soup without mug etc



the 'special' bell - nicked the idea off here but can't remember who from but made up the attached poem all by myself





reindeer food, minus the tag



a whole basket of reindeer foods waiting to go into hampers



a whole basket of special bells waiting to go into hampers



feel like i've actually achieved something today already!! :beer:

RoxieW

just bought some xmas movies on amazon Got Nightmare before xma s(of course) muppet xmas carrol, santa claus the movie ( a childhood fave of mine!) and mickeys once/twice upon a xmas for £18.

Did come across this - you're not this bad are you mel?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nightmare-Before-Christmas-Super-Premium/dp/B001E960KK/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1228399602&sr=8-10

RoxieW

oh - i bought those mugs too beki - had to keep going back to the shop cos I needed 9 and they only ever had 4 or 5 in at a time. I thought they'd be perfect for snowy soups cos they're quite tall.

Beki

omg HOW much?!?! *faints*

Beki

yeah those mugs are brill aren't they! i cleared the shelf i'm afraid lol

RoxieW

beki - me too for number 3 on your list. oh and good luck with number 16!

Beki

i've done number 16! woohoo! it took a couple of hours, but looks SO much better now