Christmas 09 Let's Get Organised!!

fedupandskint

sunrise27 wrote: »

my son would love this
is Mr A asdas ??

Yes it is! They had the Jars stacked up for the last few weeks for £1 and I bought 3 to make up as sweet jars. Think I will go back and get a couple more to make sure I have enough, were only a few left last time I looked so be quick.

They only took 2 multi packs of swizzle sweets (love hearts, lollies, swizzle sweets and small packs of haribo star mix in a multi pack) to fill completely so an absolute bargain!

Will be making a chewy chocolate sweetie one for my brother for Christmas too when I have a scoot around for some sweets he likes in the pound stretcher type shops

fedupandskint

yippee_kye_yay wrote: »

it was in store. they were all inside the bigger one and wrapped in cellophane. tbh i didnt know what they were at 1st, just saw the price and thought the design looked nice so i pulled them open and realised it was a set of hatboxes!

One last question! Do you remember which part of the store they were in or what they were close to? I hunted high and low and couldn't find them unfortunately and I thought all the MSEer's had been in for them yesterday!

sunrise27_2

I think a trip to Asdas is in order , I could do with some of these jars anway I want to organise my cupboard , thinking about it I know a few people who would like the sweet jars - hope they've got some left
I'm supposed to be trying to save money this christmas but every time I read a good idea I think oh I'll make that perhaps I'll have to start writing the ideas down and save some for future christmas' lol

yippee_kye_yay

ask as many questions as you want!
they were near all the storage things, under the bed boxes, them clear storage boxes etc. also if your store does the same, they were up high on the shelf and they were turned on there side (lid facing towards you) so all you saw was a round disc

Ruth_honey

For people looking for storage jars, my mum told me that Tesco has Dowe Egberts coffee on offer at the moment. The jars they come in are fab. She gets through lots of coffee and I often have the jars from her once she's emptied them & they seal really well. HTH someone.
Will be looking out for those hat boxes. They sound great!

Claire_Bear

For people making Christmas cakes who've never done it before, Food Weighhouse type shops always start selling kits about now, they have all of the dry ingredients in, and instructions. My mam makes them from these kits every year, save having to buy big bags of fruit, whole jars of spice when you only use a pinch etc, then she feeds it with booze and ices it herself. I don't like Christmas cake but everyone else says it's delicious

Claire_Bear

I wish I'd bought a smaller jar for OH's sweetie jar present, was looking at these lovely kilner jars but they were all like 3-4 squids each, so I opted for the £1 clear cookie jar, but now I realise it'll cost a fortune to fill it with candy. I suppose it's better to spend more on the sweets than the jar though.

Home Bargains is starting to get Christmas stuff in! :j:j:j I had a big grin on my face when I saw it, people must have thought I was a bit strange. Picked up my OHs gaming mouse from the Post Office today too. It's getting close now :rotfl:

chickywiggle

yippee_kye_yay wrote: »

i have bought a dvd each for my little brother (10) and nephew (12) for their movie hampers; its a 3 disc boxset with fantastic 4, electra and daredevil in for £3.99. hopefully they will like them! i have budgeted £10 for the dvds each so they still have another £6 to go, but not sure what else to add in there?

sorry i've not read the whole thread so you may already have thought of this..... what about a pack of popcorn each (you can normally get a pk of 3 microwave ones quite cheap) - occassionally my poundland (sheffield) has them.

I am doing baskets of things this year (cost between 50p-£2 each depending on size - lined in tissue paper - was gonna be bath stuff but the more i read this thread the more i think i might do random things at the mo each ladies basket has:
2 botanics items (curotsy of £land and MSE)
3 tealights (lge packs in £land)
2 have an oil burner and oil (£land) the others have a small photoframe (£land)
a handmade soap (my local bath shop closed and i stocked up on bargins)
a keyring
a novelty pencil/ pen/ notebook

any more ideas.......

whizzer01

hi there

just thought i would join in this thread, been on thrifty gifty aswell and thanks to all you mser's saving a lot of money for xmas 2009

cant remember who was asking but was in home bargains today and they had chocolate gold and silver coins i think for 69p
also they had card making kits with abou 8 cards, stickers a glitter pen for 19p . the stickers have some happy birthday bits on but i thought they could be used for thank you cards so stocked up for the kids, the cards are also the ones with the cut out fronts so you can put a photo in, baragin for 19p
i also stocked up on kilner jars in my local pound shop (not big enough for 365 facts but nice for sweeties, smarties, chutneys etc)
last but not least my poundshop also had winnie the pooh slipper socks (with non slip soles) sizes 7-11 great for hampers

hope this helps someone
i am searching for a nintendo ds for dd, any ideas on best deals, no games required as have some already

yippee_kye_yay

chickywiggle wrote: »

sorry i've not read the whole thread so you may already have thought of this..... what about a pack of popcorn each (you can normally get a pk of 3 microwave ones quite cheap) - occassionally my poundland (sheffield) has them.

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thank you, i am adding popcorn, pop etc ive just ordered some red and white popcorn bags for them to eat it out of
i misworded my post i meant what other dvds can i buy to go in there:o