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

mhagster

I know I didn't really need them ......but whilst I was looking at nice cards in WHSmith sale, a woman came up behind me & said Semi Chem are selling cards for 9p.....so hotfooted it and bought 2 packs of cute kitten cards( will do for dd2 to hand out) for 18p.

My OH is in Australia and am seriously missing him....5 more weeks to go boohoo! He just laughs when I told him his mothers gift was all bought & wrapped!!

It is sooooo nice to be enthusiastic about Christmas all year isn't it.......instead of being thought of as a bit daft.

mhagster

Mel where did you get your cellophane wrap from?

pinkladymel

I bought my cellophane from flower hour on Ebay.. I will find it and edit this post in a sec for you x

Here: http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Flower-Hour

bunbun2

thanks for that PLM and happy rudolph day to everyone!
I am very impressed with your cupboard mel. I have a big cupboard like that but it is so full of junk:rotfl:
OH was reading over my shoulder so I have allocated the shrove Tuesday bit to him! He also said I will be surprised by my valentine's day present:rotfl:
I have filled in my notebook and made a list for birthday/Christmas pressies for most poeple. I was lucky enough to get both a Boots and Tesco hamper so will split those and add to other bits I bought in the Boots sale:
Mum birthday - Boots country living bag with bits from the hamper
Dad birthday - organic hamper with bits from Tesco hamper
Mum and Dad Christmas - Christmas hamper - wicker basket with various food sets from Boots sale and christmas plates/spoons from...yes Boots!
I have made a list of all the children's presents I bought in the sale and need to allocate them but I have a good selection and enough for everyone.
I plan to wrap most of my birthday presents and give them to my parents when they come to visit in February as they have more storage space than we do! We may also pay MIL a visit to leave some presents there too:rotfl:

sylphraven

Any chance of a link to the monthly challange post on the first post under Rudolph day please, just to make it easier to find when we want to check it?

I can do a tick already for valentines day

Thanks for the shrove tuesday reminder, shall put jif lemon on the calendar to get 2 weeks before. Its on february 24th - I went & looked it up, lol & Mothers day is March 22nd

pinkladymel

Thank you Sylph my wonderful friend Have amended the post with dates and added a link to the first post. Wish granted.. anything else.. shoe shine?

Did you get your Boots order ok?

pinkladymel

OoOoo BunBun how exciting.. I wonder what it could be No pressure on you to be wonderful or anything now!!

scattymam1

Thanks for that PLM about the vouchers - I'll just hang on to the cash/vouchers and put them away until the end of the year, maybe november I'll just go to one shop - like morrisons or boots, (not sure if Tesco do them) and get all my gift cards, like an intunes voucher for sis in law, a boots voucher for MIL, a Game voucher for FIL, etc; I'll not buy them now incase they go bust before next christmas - thanks.

Love your photo organisedness.

sylphraven

Why thank you PLM, a shoe shine would be lovely as my everyday shoes are normally very mucky, dont worry about bringing a gas mask though, no complaints from LO when he grabs them, his dads get a loud "poawwwwwww" lol

You mean you didnt hear me yell? Yup, everything has now arrived, so I'm a very happy bunny tried the website again when they put it back on, but it played uptoo much, I just checked it at leisure throughout the day, no stress. Have just put in a n order for nappies, pull ups (he's almost too big for nappies now :eek: , dont they understand some of us raise giants?) & wipes. No codes are working so I'm going to ring CS tomorrow.

aurora_14

Mel - ur a mindreader girl! I was looking to find what's upcoming in the next few months - ur a lifesaver as I now have to get going to prepare for valentine's day, easter and mother's day. Haven't really had time to think about x-mas :-(
Love the cards Mel - they are really pretty. Well done!!!