Great Mother's Day Pressie Hunt

MSE_Martin

Anyone can click onto a website and order posh flowers, yet often it’s the free things that Mums really treasure: breakfast in bed, cute homemade cards, a day without the kids fighting.

Mother's Day's coming up on the March 26th so I want to create a database of the sweetest, most thoughtful pressie ideas. And, Mums, why don’t you post below to let MoneySaving husbands and kids know what you really want.

To share your ideas click reply and enter your ideas. Please put:

Name of present
Do you make it or buy it
Total Cost
Details

Glad

One of the best Mother's Days I remember, my kids were 8 and 9
my Dad took them to a local market town and said they could get whatever they wanted and have £5 each,
they worked hard to make the most of their money and I had lot's of little gifts, some from market, some from charity shops, they included a mini photoframe which they put a pic in, a vase from a charity shop with some fresh daffodils in, some gloves, a little ornament, they made a card at home with hubby for me
all bought and made with love and I'll never forget it

Somerled

Name of present: Lily of the Valley or Lavendar Oil Burner Set
Do you make it or buy it: Buy it
Total Cost: 4.94 (inc p&p)
Details: Lavender Oil Burner Set includes the Oil Burner, 4 scented tealights, fragrance oil and lavendar fragranced wax. Part of the lavendar collection of candles which includes tealights, votive and pillar candles

Lily of the Valley Oil Burner Set includes the Oil Burner, 4 scented tealights, fragrance oil and lavendar fragranced wax. Part of the lily collection including tealights and pillar candles.

Please note each item is £1.99
Postage is £2.95 for orders less than £15.00
Free carriage starts from a £15.00 spend

There are loads of other everyday items as well at good prices - so reaching the £15.00 could be quite easy for the Bargain hunter.

getcarter

I used to childmind and got the kids to decorate plant pots which were then either planted up with plants or bulbs if I was really organised

terrierlady

our local charity shop is doing planted spring baskets for £5.00.

gentlepurr

alot of things have been going on in my life recently, and my mum is very disabled, and gets frustrated because she would like to help me more. i tell her that the most important way i need help is for me to know that i have her love.

for mothers day i am sending her a copy of the lyrics from "your love" by diana ross. i think the lyrics can say far more than a gift off the shelf ever could.

xx

Fibabe

Name of present: Travel Kit

Do you make it or buy it: A bit of both

Total Cost: £10

Details: Buy your mum a nice wash bag from superdrug/boots/T K Maxx etcfor a couple of pounds.
Fill it up with travel sizes of her favourite smellies. There are a lot about at the minute for summer particularly in Superdrug, Tescos and Boots.

crazyhazel

I have three children - 20, 18 and 14 and I have always told them that the best way to look after me on birthdays, mothers day or christmas is to take time to make things themselves.

Everyone can borrow a fiver and buy a gift. Last birthday my then 13 year old daughter took the time and effort to make me an iced and marzipaned birthday cake with the design on top of a lettuce leaf ( as I was then on a sorta diet) - yes ok the ingredients were from my cupboard but the thought, time and effort were all hers - and it was delicious.

Always they have made me little homemade cards from various magazines and card etc nowadays they can afford the proper ones it dosnt have totally the same effect.

I have had various little chores done for no pocket money and little cuddles throughout the day.

When you know they have thought about it and made it - maybe over a few days maybe a few weeks - it is a lovely thought

certainly made my day

mountainofdebt

a cross shreader from ASDA.

Not the gift you'd immediate associate with Mother's Day but that's what she wanted so that's what she's having, lol!

fostermoss

Memory jar
make it
ink,paper,empty jar,nice notebook-an hour of your time to write or type the questions.

You write out lots of questions that you probably wouldnt ask about(nothing rude or too personal) such as -what was your home like when you were a child, how did you become engaged,describe your wedding day,what is your secret for good health,describe a childhood christmas,tell about handed down talents,did your parents ever talk about world war 1/2, do you remember your childrens first days at school etc etc etc......

cut these up and fold them up and put them into a jar with the verse

Recipe for my life history
Combine a generous slice of your life history, a dash of nostalgia, several cups of facts and feelings and 104 deliciously interesting questions.
Draw one slip of paper,take a few minutes to enjoy your memories, paste a question at the top of a page, fill in your answer.This product was prepared to preserve your life as a message.

This is a great way to pass on a piece of history down the generations, i am making one for my MIL for mothers day, and i made them for my 2 grandmothers for christmas( one is 80 yrs old), the things i have discovered about life in the last 80 years and family history is priceless and something i will give to my children when they are old enough.

I found the questions already for me on the internet, im not sure if i can post a link so either pm me for the links or just type in memory jar into a search engine.

HTH
:j

Sarah

tee_pee_2

Last mothers day (incidentally my first) my daughter who was born 10wks early was in hospital. For mothers day the nurses made all the mums a card and put silver paint on the babies feet and put their footprints on the card. They were the tiniest footprints I have ever seen.

That was the best present I have ever had in my entire life, I am going to put it up again this year cos it was wonderful.

Cost price of some card and a bit of paint.