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

paddingtondoo

Hi everyone, welcome to all newbies.

Am feeling very pleased with myself today .
Have made my January birthday cards and ordered OH 3 Star Wars DVDs from Amazon value nearly £70 for.................... nothing due to vouchers from Lightspeed :T.

Budget for his birthday was £50 have spent £18.50 cash and have stuff worth £114 :j:j.

He has also offered to sit outside the Range tomorrow so I can go and look at the papers. :T:T

BTW have had an offer from truprint for 50 6x4 photos for 1p each offer ends on Tuesday.

Am now bouncing off to get eggs so he can make orange bread Yum

Forgot have £35 in change to pay into bank as well

pinkladymel

I have never been adopted on UKS (you can choose to by joining a thread and then you get someone adopt you and show you round) and it looked very scary when I first started but then I just worked my way around and discovered it all out within a week. I have a team on there and if anyone would like to join that just let me know. That way, you can have people to ask any questions and get inspiration.

Orange bread sounds absolutely delicious! More fat for my bulging buttocks.

Welcome to all of the newcomers it is great to have you here.. just ignore our random chatting and join us at your peril

Sarah I am so glad the funeral is over and now you can move forward. It is always such a hard time to try and get over a change in your life that you really wasnt prepared for.. What a way to end christmas and start the new year! People say funerals are a celebration of life not death and that you should be happy you met that person and was able to have them in your life. I hope that makes any sense. I ALSO had fish chips and curry sauce... oh the disaster. The worse thing is I have long hair so it went in my hair ARGH.

Hardup_Hester

Hi Mum2one
I got the mars bar vodka from somewhere on this site, it's just a bottle of vodka, with some poured out & add chopped up mars bars, if you chop them lemgthways they slip through the neck of a bottle quite easily.
I made 4 bottles, I bought 3 bottles of vodka & poured about a third of,each bottle into an empty screwtop wine bottle that I saved. You can all sorts of sweets, skittles, parma violets, bounty bars etc.
Hugs Hester

JordanShannon

Hi everyone,

I just joined UKS, lol newbie again Hopefully i will have LOADS of inspiration, already found loads of cheap craft sites that i hadn't got down:p
Thanks for introducing it to me :beer:
..xx

jamtart6

Hello all!
Sarahf - yes using the £100 on presents will make you money neutral. I'll be keeping a close eye to check it doesnt get spent on crafty goods!

I need to make 30 thank you cards for our engagement presents, but I am so lazy I've decided to get some snapfish photo cards printed instead and just make 3 for the family thank yous! Who wouldn't love a mug shot of me and Mr Jamtart on their fireplace?? (it will keep the children away from the fire at the least!)

Was hoping to sort my cupboard out with presents today but been a bit snowed with other things. I have a nice big stash ready for eBay. Mind you seeing as I've been lazy on the thank you card front I can sort my cupboard out instead

JordanShannon

:doh: UKS is so confusing , can someone help me:question: i have no idea what i am doing, or what i should be doing lol:rotfl:
..xx

phunkles

Im half way through sorting out my present stash now
have divided it into 2 though - Christmas and Birthdays
And Ive made all the birthday cards I need up to the start of March
My little notebook is getting fuller by the minute (im not sure fuller is a real adjective)

mhagster

I bought some lovely wooden East of India Christmas Decorations that were half price today, I will use them on gifts as tags. I am terrible , I find it hard to walk away from a bargain. Did I need it ,no not really but they were very pretty!

JordanShannon

Ohh i love east of india, they do seconds sales, and theres absolutely nothing wrong with them, much cheaper! I use the hearts on the tags to decorate old photoframes
..xx

chocolate.orange_2

Ive been a good Chocolate orang today :rotfl:

All my craft stuff is threw into a box i was going to sort it out but didnt want to get caught into the trap of spending ages looking at it and then coming on here ordering more:o or looking on UKScrappers :rotfl:
I now have 2 separate boxes Christmas craft stuff and craft stuff :rotfl:

I checked out Nectar site,which i never usually do. They give you points for Amazon and Lakeland purchases so i have been back on there and sorted my passwords etc. I also signed up to Mysurveys.com So more ( hopefully) points for Christmas.
Theres a list of sites i still have to join but its a start

UKS confusses me too JordanShannon I keep thinking of all different things i can scrap about I can see this getting expensive :rotfl: Mind it will be, i have bought all this stuff and not had chance to do anything with it yet :rotfl:

:hello: Hardup Hester