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

sarahf191979

mary-op wrote: »

I'm so behind myself with all things domestic........can see me doing September challenge in January and calling it 'early springclean'................:rotfl::rotfl:

I know how you feel hun, I feel like I'm running around after myself at the mo....

mary-op

sarah -think my main problem is getting my bum off the chair in the first place...............:rotfl:
Think its called being 'idle' ? I prefer 'creative' cos I'm usually messing about with paper and glue............lol

rufusdog52

Afternoon everyone,

I had a £6 voucher from Royal Mail surveys yesterday to spend in Wilkinsons so bought a pot of white paint and started going over the paint work in our bedroom. Measured up the walls and think I will only need 4 rolls of wallpaper to re-paper the room so hoping I will have enough money next month to get some and do the room up before Xmas. I have the new curtains that I got off someone for nothing and bedding all matches the curtains in colour so wont cost any more than that to give it a make over.

Down stairs is still looking nice from when we did it all up for OH's party in August so feeling very orgainised this year.

I start my quilting course on Weds eve so very excited about that, cant wait to get strted on it.

mum2one

chaosweddings wrote: »

3_cheeky_princesses wrote: »

Hello all

Just had a look on the shopping part of the forum and there is a good deal get £50 worth of shopping for £8 from Tescos (using cashback, money off voucher and BOGOF). At the moment there is a lot of Xmas goodies at BOGOF at Tescos inc:

Tin choccies (Roses, Celebrations, Quality Street, Heroes)

Tubs of snack (Tiwglets, Cheesy balls, Cheeslets)

Choccie Coin

Plus offers on Batteries, Selection boxes etc etc....


Hi, i did this, got £50 worth of bogofs and only paid £8
example:
2 x tins chocs £10 e
2 x twiglets/cheesy footballs £2.79 e
4 x princes juice cartons £1.30 e
2 x jellybabies box/allsorts £3.99 e
2 x xmas choc selection £6 e
total £50
half total for bogofs
total £25
minus £10 when you spend £50
total £15
minus £10 cashback from topcash back
total £5 plus £3 delivery

mine came today and the delivery guy thought it was funny that i got it all for £18

Massive thank you just done my xmas shop - had ot cheat slightly and register for a new clubcard - spend up to the £5.00 payout + that will do.

With delievery -
£67.45 (booked a £3.00 slot)
£26.47 in bogof
£10.00 Tesco
£10.00 Quidco

Works out as £20.98

Massive thank you. xx

JordanShannon

rufusd!!!2 wrote: »

Have finished daughters bedroom. Its very pink, white and black. She asked me to help her do a painting of one of the Twilight peeps for her wall and this is the result - she did it all her self really, I was just watching.

That's so pretty i want one:j:T:T

x

irishgirl62

wow refusd2! your daughter must be very talented!

cdsmiler

mandragora wrote: »

Well, I can only say I wish we had an Asda near us - I'd shop there just to support their stance of not sticking out the Christmas stuff till November - I'm all for putting stuff aside as you go through the year, as I think it makes sense, but I really hate the shops prolonging the season the way they do. I don't need three months to go out and buy a tin of chocolates and a packet of biscuits. That's stuff I'm more than happy to leave till the last few weeks! Ironic, I know, as I've contributed to the thread for months now, but I hope you know what I mean, even if you don't agree!!

No, I'm woth you there. I LOVE seeing all the Christmas stuff out, but considering it's all novelty food based, waiting until the start of November is plenty of time!

I'm quite behind with Christmas stuff in some senses. Need to look through all the bits we've bought so far and allocate some books we've picked up from the Free Book offer on Bangzo.com. Plus I need to get my bum in gear with my cross stitch Christmas cards!!

Clare x

erm

mum2one wrote: »

Here we go, hopefully theirs method in my madness, as it may of sounded very odd, me saying make £10, but you won't be swopping addresses, posting parcels etc.


Here we are that lovely time of the month, (odd thought the only time of the month we look forward to!).

Santas Present Challenge.

Hopefully by now, all you lovely ladies, will of made your £10 for the challenge (have put some names on Post 1, if I had put any on in error/ or you want to be added just pm me and I will adjust accordingly.).

If anyone wants to join could you let me know by the 20th October, so we (dd has appointed herself, chief name picker), can get all the pairing done and can be released in time for Octobers Santas Challenge, so the swopping can be completed by Novembers challenge. Once I have final numbers, will pop a quick message to everyone taking part, via PM, be 3 quick questions (eg favourite colour,), this will then be sent to your partner, hopefully give them a clue as to what you like / don’t like.

There’s no swopping of addresses, no rushing to the Post Office, the basis of the challenge, your be given your “partners” name, and their “3 answers”.

The choosing stage – I have worked on the basis that everyone has an Argos near them, and that you can rope a friend in to make the final decision.

Eg
I was buying Jamtart6, her list said, fav colour pink, ideal present – whisked up in a hot air balloon, worst present – something gothic. (budget doesn’t buy helicopter flight, but would maybe think of pampering gift).

Then I’d use Argos (either catalogue or online) choose 3 sets of choices, up to the value of £10, even if one of the choices meant choosing 2 items,
that I think she would like.

Send her a pm, with the 3 choices, giving her the catalogue numbers, (hopefully she doesn’t cheat), and Jamtart then passes them to her friend along with the £10 she has made, and her friend chooses the ideal gift..

So boils down to the £10 you made you are spending on yourself but, someone chooses the presents for you, and sends the catalogue numbers (based it on Argos – hopefully we all have one near), be fun if you could get one of your friends to choose the present.

We all work hard all year round making sure that Birthdays, Christmas and other events are all sorted out, and in all honestly, we don’t treat ourselves, hence the mad idea of the secret santa – with a difference. xx

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Santas monthly challenge coming up!x

Mum2One - you are fab. I'd already said count me in and now I'm even more excited. What a wonderful idea.

x

rufusdog52

Thanks for all the comments about the painting, have shown my daughter and she is over the moon with all the praise lol.

Off to the dump with some more rubbish, really having a good sort out.

sylphraven

cdsmiler wrote: »

No, I'm woth you there. I LOVE seeing all the Christmas stuff out, but considering it's all novelty food based, waiting until the start of November is plenty of time!

Dont think it includes the food stuffs as I popped into Asda this morning & they'd replaced the baby items that were on offer last week with christmas nibbles/chocolates. I did take a peak but I'm not going to get any until the Asda Christmas Savers card bonus kicks in (think its around the 23rd/24th november.

Managed to pick up 3 of the screw organiser type boxes from poundland today, they've finally got some blue ones in rather than pink, so they've been put aside to make my nephews a selection box. They get loads at christmas & we never know what to get, so this year I've decided we'll give them some money so they can get what they want, but put it into a box of sweets (on show) so they have something from us to open on the day, & it'll be a bit different (& hopefully more cost effective for us) than the usual selection bar packs they get.

Last night OH decided to spring it on me that I've got to make a christmas dinner type meal on new years day (or eve depending on which he gets off). We did it last year as LO was ill on christmas day & we didnt feel like we'd had a proper christmas dinner as I ate mine with him cuddling up to me & had to leave my moms before desert was served. OH liked it so much he wants to make it a tradition.