my sons christmas shopping

sunrise27_2

my son is just 20 and I'm slowly trying to convert him to the world of money saving
its taken a bit of persuasion but I think I'm winning
for the last few years he's tried to pay for the whole of his christmas shopping out of novembers pay day !! he's a very generous boy and enjoys buying all the family presents , nans , grandads, aunts , uncles etc and not this year but the year before was the first year he'd had a bit of money in his pocket and he was soooooooooooooooooo excited about everything he'd bought and for the first time ever was more excited about giving out his presents than he was about receiving them.
he is also able to buy lovely presents as he works in TK Maxx and gets some real bargains , more of that in a moment
anyway I've talked him into saving a bit of money each month which I'm going to put in a sealed tin not to be opened until end of november and he's saving enough to buy all his presents plus enough to go out on his christmas meal
he is making noises about making his own lunch now instead of buying lunch every day and I've hopefully talked him into walking a short distance and then getting the bus to the train station rather than getting the bus from just down the road and paying a fortune and then having to pay for the train to work
anyway TK Maxx in Basildon closed down last year and he bought his cousin a beautiful wooden rocking horse down from £90 to £9 and a schott parker coat for £1 which with his discount bought it down to 90p !!
he's now at another t k maxx store and
this year he bought his other cousin a battery operated police motor bike reduced from about £50 to £8 and we had it in our boot to take to the birthday party when we picked him up from work , imagine our horror when he came along carrying another enormous box , when asked what it was he said it was his cousins christmas present for this year , a power ranger sit on vehicle reduced from £50 to £1 and again with his discount he got it for 90p
I think he's learning do you lol

Valli

And how! WTG sonofsunrise.

Now, sonofsunrise - I have to buy for NDN's girls, one 11 and one 6 this year. What can you pick up for ME?

If he's that savvy get him to start a 'proper' savings account...cos he is NOT going need what he saves anyway if he is picking up bargains like that...

LJM

wow he sounds like a fantastic son,its good to be adapting to OS ways even at his age it will set him up for the future.he sounds like hes had some fab bargains