Need some ideas for my wife for xmas!

mrparky

Hi all

This is my very first MSE post so please be kind! (although my wife never seems to be off here!)

Basically we have set a limit of £50 each for christmas as we are buying a larger gift between us after christmas. Im really struggling with ideas that are thoughtful and not just the usual clothes. Want £50 of little things like stocking fillers. If it helps any she is 24, we have no kids and have been married for just over a year.

As usual I have probably left it a bit late to ask for some suggestions as I am hoping to do most of this shopping tomorrow so any ideas or suggestions you can make between now and then would be great.

Cheers :beer:

foxxymynx

There's loads of things for £50.
Do you want to buy everything, or would you like to make some things?

You could do a pamper hamper for her if you'd like to make her things, and a hot chocolate mug set, - that would be £20 for both if you went extravigant with them. Maybe fluffy socks cupcake? (something silly like £1.50!) A voucher book, exchange the vouchers for various favours, so you could do some sweet ones, romantic ones and raunchy ones! (printer paper and ink!) and maybe some jewellery or something that she collects? A pot of gold?

affordmylife

im doing a pamper pack for a friend for when she has had a bad day

im putting in small bottle of wine, chocolate, candle, bubble bath and a good book.

when the kids and hubby are getting her down she can disappear into the bathroom with her goodies.

perhaps you could adapt something like this with your wifes favourite things x

ineedmoremoney

£50 mobile top up that will do woman are always on the phone

hamstercheeks_2

weekend away travel lodge were doing cheap rooms

hamstercheeks_2

also buy 5 lucky dip lotto tickets
you never know!

thevicster

Some kind of photo gift involving your wedding photos? Lots of sites are doing discounts. Something like a mug, photo calendar, collage poster, might be worth a go? Is she a girly girl? What kind of hobbies does she have? My OH finds he can never go wrong with a nice fluffy pair of pjs and a new girly dvd! SOme kind of yummy hot chocolate from Whittard, I'm also hankering after a set of coffee syrups from there too...you could wrap it up with one of their giant mugs. Does she like going out drinking/clubbing if so maybe Wetherspoons vouchers/some clubs will sell you VIP membership for a year fairly cheaply. Woolies are flogging off Milk Tray for about £3. Hope this helps!

Volvic

Perfume..I know the kind of thing my girlfriend likes by now and I spent a few hours shopping for presents last week, which included an hour smelling various perfumes choosing a new one to get her. As she's young, I'd recommend one by Ghost, in an orange bottle, I think it's called Sweetheart, or one called Nina which is shaped like an apple in a pink bottle. They were 2 recommended to me by the sales assistant in the shop, who told me they were very popular with young girls between 18 and 24. They were quite cheap too, the Ghost one came in a gift set for £19 with a body lotion.

PinkyPunky

You could make her a nice photobook of pictures of you both. I did one for my boyfriend as MERRY CHRISTMAS M is for (me and you)... E is for... (everything, because you mean everything to me) etc. And then find nice pictures which correspond. Mine weren't all that soppy!

Anyway, free 12 page book from myphotobook.co.uk - see this thread http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1326515

HTH

TinyPablo

You could get lots of stocking fillers in Primark like PJ's, jewellery, hair accessories, socks, slippers etc for very little, I love all these things. I've been dropping hints for seven years to my partner to get me a charm bracelet and he could get me a new charm for each occassion in the future then I could hand this down to our children and each charm would have it's own little story, but alas this has fallen on deaf ears even though last year I told him outright that this was exactly what I wanted. Men eh?

TinyPablo

Me again!

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Think you could earn brownie points with this DVD!:D