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

rufusdog52

Morning ladies

Have a lot to do today. Have done all my daily clicks, was up before 6 as couldnt sleep so started early. Need to do another review for Dooyoo, edging closer to payout level, over 19000 points at the moment. Have pinned backs and fronts of two cushions together for daughter for Xmas so have to sew them up. Have roast dinner to cook plus want to do some other bits for the freezer for in the week. Have the house to myself as OH is working and youngest daughter is baby sitting round eldest daughters for the day while she works. Also need to sort out my boxes on top of the wardrobe as I have had a few dvds turn up and want to hide them.

Confuzzled

mum2one wrote: »

Do they supply the man to go with it!:p

they might but is it really worth it? :rotfl:

Shevs

fedupandskint wrote: »

Tell me about it! Could do with one and mine is now an ex and guess what he's hooked straight up with someone else. I can't write what I think about this :mad:

Anyway I asked him what he wanted for his birthday and he just shrugged and said get me anything. I feel like dumping his present on his drive with a bow thrown ontop.

Guess that makes another mahoosive box of Thorntons for me then at Christmas instead of him.

Bought 3 yesterday at Sainsbugs on offer at £5.49 as I didn't make it into town as a result of ex OH

I wouldnt give him anything for his birthday!!! List them on ebay and get some money back. I am sorry to hear about that though, blummin men xXx

Confuzzled

scattymam1 wrote: »

Right here's something...I bought a charlie and lola t-shirt cheap on ebay, it has it's tags on...brand new but it smells foul, like it was from a smokers house... if I wash it ( may have to wash twice), the giftee will know as it will smell of wash powder, may be able to take off tags and tie back on with ribbon instead of plastic thingy...so anyone know how to get rid of smoky smell without it stinking big time?? it was really cheap...!

why not spray it thoroughly with fabreeze then let it air outside on the line. fabreeze is very good at getting rid of odours and putting it out on the line outside will take away the fabreeze smell! and you should be able to do both with the tags still on

3_cheeky_princesses

mum2one wrote: »

Do they supply the man to go with it!:p

Er no they dont but you can borrow mine if you like. He is very good at DIY. Keep him well fed and he is well behaved!

fedupandskint wrote: »

Tell me about it! Could do with one and mine is now an ex and guess what he's hooked straight up with someone else. I can't write what I think about this :mad:

Anyway I asked him what he wanted for his birthday and he just shrugged and said get me anything. I feel like dumping his present on his drive with a bow thrown ontop.

Guess that makes another mahoosive box of Thorntons for me then at Christmas instead of him.

Bought 3 yesterday at Sainsbugs on offer at £5.49 as I didn't make it into town as a result of ex OH

I wouldnt bother getting him anything! :wall: Blooming men not worth the hassle. Sending you a big cyber hug :kisses3:


To everyone else you are all getting loads done. I cant get anything done the weekends as my children demand constant attention but i do get all my bits done during the week when they are at school

sarahf191979

Wow everyone is doing really well, managed to get a lot done this weekend still got a lot to do today and next week, want everything organised before i go away so i can concentrate on christmas and crafts when we get back... Today list

Trip to tip
Shopping at asda
washing & drying
sort out videos for charity shop (unless i can find somewhere that buys them???)
bath the dog

there the main things i want to do, have 2 pages of jobs to get through in my folder hoping to get some of them crossed off too

JaneLiz

Well I'm actually being slightly organised - haha! I've decided what I want to buy/give everyone so that's all good.. well to some degree I've decided!

I'm going to make my brother a retro sweet thing but I can't decide what to put them in? If I'm honest I don't want to use the boxes like other people have used - don't think it would work for my brother!

SugarSpun

Whoo hoo! I packed the Christmas gift suitcase! None of it is wrapped, but I'll do that when I get to the UK.

Still to do, in no particular order:

Organise rental car
Buy glue that comes with a brush and nontoxic paint
Paint the baby's hands and make some portrait/smudgy handprint combos
Print out all the cute paper stuff I found
Glue it onto card where necessary
Find Christmas cards and pack them
Buy lebkuchen, cheese and sausage and don't forget them
Take orders for bringing stuff back
Organise meeting various people for Christmas fun
Wrap the Christmas gifts (UK)
Ikea trip (UK)
Post cards (UK)
Sort through gifts (UK)
Separate out next year's birthdays and wrap them (UK)
Cull the overpurchasing (I confess, I've been dreadful) and wrap for next year (UK)
Label next year's stuff and put it in the loft (UK)
Make a list of who gets what in my organised notebook

It's all coming together *does a little dance*

rufusdog52

I have just about finished the Twilight cushions, just need to sew up the opening in the bottom of each. Will do that this evening while watching tv.



Have everything I need to finish off the quilt to go with them now, next lesson on Wednesday.

Done couple more reviews on Dooyoo and gone over the 20000 at last. Wont be cleared until in the week but glad I got there.

Off to do some cooking xx

mum2one

fedupandskint wrote: »

Tell me about it! Could do with one and mine is now an ex and guess what he's hooked straight up with someone else. I can't write what I think about this :mad:

Typical man.

Anyway I asked him what he wanted for his birthday and he just shrugged and said get me anything. I feel like dumping his present on his drive with a bow thrown ontop.

I'd say sod it, treat yourself instead.

Guess that makes another mahoosive box of Thorntons for me then at Christmas instead of him.

A GIRL AFTER MY OWN HEART
Bought 3 yesterday at Sainsbugs on offer at £5.49 as I didn't make it into town as a result of ex OH

Don't forget if your giving away one of those boxes for christmas u need to quality control them. and that means testing the whole box!!

Digressing slightly - but on the chocolate theme, Tesco have a christmas selection of chocolates, big box, red, there on offer at half price for £6.00

Don't waste your money, I brought 2 boxes, for, (did the bulk xmas order, with all the bogof and offers).

Theres onl 8 different choices, there not very imaginative.

Dark Chocolate - toffee, orange cream, coffee cream
Milk chocolate - strawberry creme, caramel barrel, turkish delight, hazel nut whirl, nut in caramel.

They tasted cheap, you can tell how bad they were, theres still half a box left, and that is not like our household, once a box opened, they've gone within 30 mins (bad day), 10 mins gd day xx
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