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

Shevs

I have just had some great news that has really cheered me up, BF has managed to get xmas eve and boxing day off. He was only supposed to be off xmas day but work have given him the full three days off, so excited and happy cos it is our first xmas living together. And because thanks to this thread I am all organised so just have to concentrate on having a good time.

I really do want to thank you all for your help and support for this christmas. If it werent for you guys I would probably still have gifts to buy like I did this time last year. I have made some great friends here xxxxxxxx

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Shevs wrote: »

I have just had some great news that has really cheered me up, BF has managed to get xmas eve and boxing day off. He was only supposed to be off xmas day but work have given him the full three days off, so excited and happy cos it is our first xmas living together. And because thanks to this thread I am all organised so just have to concentrate on having a good time.

I really do want to thank you all for your help and support for this christmas. If it werent for you guys I would probably still have gifts to buy like I did this time last year. I have made some great friends here xxxxxxxx

That's great news Shevs, I remember my first christmas at home with my hubby, in our new flat, it was lovely. x

sarahf191979

Well it's not long now, and I just wanted to Say a Big Thanks to all my Wonderful Friends on here for helping me get organised! (No I've not finished everything, but whats left is achivable thanks to you lot!!)

So far today, I have managed to sort through kids uniform, got the whites in soak, cleaned out the school bags and sorted out the PE Kits ready for January. Done 3 loads of Washing and put all my recycling out (Last collection before Christmas :eek: .....)

Still got normal house work to do, a bit of wrapping and I need to nip into town this afternoon :mad:

Feeling a bit better today, Ears still POPPED :eek: and DS2 has a high temp and feeling sorry for himself on the settee.

OK so I off for another Coffee, then a few more jobs.

Hope everyone is having a nice day

Sarah
x

jamtart6

"one more stamp to go ...one more stamp to go...eee iii addy-oh one more stamp to goooooooo"

findingmyfeet

hi all finally managed to get back on here, really been missing you all. must be over a week since i was here. missed all the chat and usually have a good laugh reading evryones posts. Work has been frantic ( got coffee break at mo and waiting for paperwork to come in so cant do anything for a while).
Just got this afternoon and tomorrow then done for 2 weeks. HOORAY!!

Was out all last weekend, works do etc and had a cracking time, needless to say monday morning arrived much too fast and i wasnt fit for doing much!

One last gift to buy today then its done.
Would like to :
buy last gift
wrap remaining gifts ( about 8)
deliver 2 at the weekend
make mince pies, sausage rolls and jamtarts
haircut (saturday)
Big clean up and general tidy around
visit to supermarket just for fresh stuff
All this should be done by saturday afternoon except one gift being delivered sunday.
Then its relax, xmas films, choccies and doing not much at all but relaxing and vegging out for a week or so............bliss

findingmyfeet

also forgot to mention my savings for next years birthdays, xmas etc off to a good start. Got £5 argos voucher, £6.86 on boots points, £6.50 in tesco points and a £5 voucher for getting morrisons petrol. Usually fritter this lot away but going to use all these for gifts in 2009. Also got the £20 voucher off my morrisons shop this week so thats a good reduction too.
OHHHHHHHHH one of the ladies here has just arrived with chocolate eclairs from the bakers.....think i will have to go nowwwwwwwwwwwww.

chocolate.orange_2

jamtart6 wrote: »

"one more stamp to go ...one more stamp to go...eee iii addy-oh one more stamp to goooooooo"

What jammy said

But should say
waiting for stamp to gooooo
on Christmas Aaaaaangels card
Cause choccy just did firebox
eee iii addy-oh, 0 stamps to goooooo :rotfl:

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I love this thread, but am I alone here in not always understanding what everyone is talking about??? :rotfl: Stamps?

sammr85

Afternoon all

well i have got a couple of things done today while I havent been feeding madam who seems to feed all day at the mo:rolleyes:

managed to put away all the tesco delivery
hoover
clean and put away George foreman grill from yesterdays dinner.

I also managed yesterdays pledge last night and wrapped a bag full of presents so I'm getting there slowly, y do we buy our OH's and kids so much when we know we have to wrap it all lol

Later if I'm ever freed from this baby I plan to make some more of twinks fab hobnobs and hopefully some shortbread with DD1 for her friends at school tomorrow and todays pledge is to wrap at least 1 more present and sort out the teachers gifts for the morning

jamtart6

goochie wrote: »

I love this thread, but am I alone here in not always understanding what everyone is talking about??? :rotfl: Stamps?

Sorry goochie 4 of us are part of a Quidco promotion for bonus cashback this christmas. Each time we shop on line we get a STAMP on our bingocard, so when we get 5 stamps we get £5 bonus we have slightly hi-jacked this thread about it (sorry everyone:o) as sometimes we need to shop tactically in order to get the maximum bonus :T