Thrifty Gifty - Organised for Christmas and all ocassions 2009- Santas Challenges

sammy_kaye18

sarahf191979 wrote: »

Just to get you thinking.....

If you won the Lottery and had unlimited funds would you still be Thrifty Gifty??? Would you still shop in the £1 shop?? Would you still start your Christmas shopping in the January Sales???

Answers on a postcard LOL.......;)

Yeah I think so.

Me and boyfriend have always said that if we won the lottery we'd look after our familys first obviously, buy our dream home (we both want a farm with a few animals). The only other thing I asked for in our 'dream home' was a by window for my Christmas tree to go in! and I can visit Santa and the reindeer in Lapland with Ben but I think that would be just general stuff - I think as far as gifts went and Xmas I'd probably go a bit more OTT with decorating etc but I think gifts wise I'd be about the same. I would rather give a cheaper thoughtful wanted gift than an expensive useless one.

Think I'd make a Christmas present storage room onto the farm too though!

fedupandskint

sarahf191979 wrote: »

Just to get you thinking.....

If you won the Lottery and had unlimited funds would you still be Thrifty Gifty??? Would you still shop in the £1 shop?? Would you still start your Christmas shopping in the January Sales???

Answers on a postcard LOL.......;)

Probably would do. I would buy my dream cottage with a bit of land for a few animals and a large kitchen and aga or range. Make sure my family were provided for how they wanted to be. Then still start shopping early and make up hampers and baskets with bargains. Doesn't hurt anyone at all except the large retailers!

Still dreaming for the or any win :rotfl:

Pips_Mum

sammy_kaye18 wrote: »

The only other thing I asked for in our 'dream home' was a by window for my Christmas tree to go in!

OH, Pip and I have really grown out of our little house so when debts are gone and we can start to look for a new house this was the first thing I said I wanted too!!!

I think I would still go into the £1 shops and especially Home Bargains I love seeing what they have got. I would just be turning up in the car park in an Aston Martin not a Ford Focus thats all!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

SugarSpun

sarahf191979 wrote: »

Just to get you thinking.....

If you won the Lottery and had unlimited funds would you still be Thrifty Gifty??? Would you still shop in the £1 shop?? Would you still start your Christmas shopping in the January Sales???

Answers on a postcard LOL.......;)

Yes, but I'd be able to buy more expensive bargains If something that costs £1000 is 90% off, at the moment I can't afford it. But if I could I would.

With a lottery win I'd look after my parents, set up a trust fund for my brother and then buy a house not too far from the city centre that had space for beehives, maybe a goat and some chickens, lots of room for the monster to play ... and then I would set to creating siblings for the monster.

If funds were truly unlimited then Husband would be able to finance and run a bar/restaurant, which is his dream, and I would be able to negotiate a nominal attachment to a university with library access and self-fund an academic career with only the occasional guest lecture and no admin or undergraduates to deal with.

And now I am terribly wistful. I want that life. And the goat and the chickens.

bravobeastie

mum2one wrote: »

Have you emailed customer servcies, I did but it says they will get back to you with 48hrs.

I know they deliever / prepare a lot of orders, but now its happened to someone else, makes me wonder.

Hope you get it sorted out ok.

xx

Hi mum2one

I haven't emailed customer services yet as I thought i'd give it till perhaps Tuesday in case another parcel arrives. Strangely I ordered the vodka shots too and they're missing from my order too :mad:

mary-op

sarah - lottery win ?? Think it would scare me rigid for a start -just had an inheritance (nothing like a lottery win though) and that's worried me enough as to what to do with it.
Was brought up in the 'make do and mend' times & I learned from my mum a lot about how to live cheaply.........old habit die hard and I think no matter how well off I was the charity shops would still be my favourite shops...............:rotfl:

snickers0607

i too would still go to charity shops and be thrifty - i think its something you just do when you have had to make do all your life, and i cant bear waste - so i would still do it no matter what my bank balance says. i dont see the point in spending silly money - oooh just thought if i had lots of money i would have more time to look for bargains!!

pretzelnut

sarahf191979 wrote: »

Just to get you thinking.....

If you won the Lottery and had unlimited funds would you still be Thrifty Gifty??? Would you still shop in the £1 shop?? Would you still start your Christmas shopping in the January Sales???

Answers on a postcard LOL.......;)

I dont do the lottery - personnaly because i would !!!!!! myself if i won.

I have imagined many a time how my life would change if i won a large sum and i dont think i'd like the change, not just in me but in the people around me.

I love my life as it is, granted a little more money would be lovely but we do ok as we are.

But yes i would still hunt for bargains - theres no point in giving money away unless its to a charity or good cause you believe in.

mum2one

If my dd answered that question, she would say were buying a house in Dawlish, no xmas or birthday shopping, all done online + someone else wraps!! xx

sarahf191979

Oh My aren't we all the same. me and OH were talking about it the other night an I just wondered if I was being a bit weird lol saying I would still shop in the £1 shop etc... suppose I'm just thrifty Gifty LOL:D

I would be so scared of all that money too, but would buy my dream home in Ayr and look after my mum and oh's dad and aunty.

Oh and would have to take the kids and OH over to America, kids for disney and OH for the Aircraft Bone yard:rolleyes: