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

fedupandskint

Onwards with the few Christmas pressies left to get

Nipped to Morriblobs for the 2x £15 i-tunes cards for £20 as posted on the grabbit board. Then ordered a photos from Mr A to go in the photo album present for £2.55 for 17 photos. Bought 2 pet stockings from there too for £2.48.

Only a few bits of for the food hamper left to get and all done and dusted!

Boiler being fixed tomorrow at last after 6 days with no heating and then the tree is going up next weekend after the work Christmas party on Friday night!

junior_j

I managed to wrap up one present before i fell asleep which is my Godsons lightening MQueen underwear (he loves disney cars lightening mqueen) and i love the disney cars xmas wrap i brought for 99p good quality ,wrapped his underwear a treat!

Also some thing else i brought last week a mini desk tape dispenser comes with 4 refills from poundland and is serving me brilliantly. Makes one hand wrapping easier! Usually i cop wrapping presents because i am not that good with it but this has made it 100 X easier. worth the pound.

Not sure how i can earn money until i get paid on the 23rd! And i still have quite a fair bit to get!

Where is the best place for nice (but small) selection box's as with the few pounds i have left I want to add these to the children's presents.

Thanks xx

ragz_2

junior_j wrote: »

I managed to wrap up one present before i fell asleep which is my Godsons lightening MQueen underwear (he loves disney cars lightening mqueen) and i love the disney cars xmas wrap i brought for 99p good quality ,wrapped his underwear a treat!

Also some thing else i brought last week a mini desk tape dispenser comes with 4 refills from poundland and is serving me brilliantly. Makes one hand wrapping easier! Usually i cop wrapping presents because i am not that good with it but this has made it 100 X easier. worth the pound.

Not sure how i can earn money until i get paid on the 23rd! And i still have quite a fair bit to get!

Where is the best place for nice (but small) selection box's as with the few pounds i have left I want to add these to the children's presents.

Thanks xx

I bought one of these (I LOVE my stationary) and it was great, the first time I used it. Since then it has started to leak the sand stuff that weights it down and has made a mess all over my dressing table!
Word of warning, be very gentle with it and keep upright!

My parents asked what I wanted them to contribute to xmas (since they are coming here for dinner) so I said to Dad he can buy the crackers (was going to make them but didn't get around to it) and that I want posh ones! Asked Mum to make the pigs in blankets as she made lovely ones last year, she was actually really flattered so win/win there lol. Seems a bit mean I'm making her bring the one thing she won't eat (she's veggie!) but she was so pleased that everyone loved them!

Think that's all I'll ask of them as they are more skint than us and a LOT less organised so they are already panicking about presents for all of us. I told Dad the kids will have so many toys anyway not to worry about them, just get something cheap and expendible. Told Mum I'd like purple nail varnish (should only be about a fiver). Thing is they know I've bought them a big present this year (thanks OH!) and I've already got it - Duvet, pillows and a duvet cover set. Theirs are so old, they never spend money on things like that so I thought I'd treat them.

junior_j

ragz wrote: »

I bought one of these (I LOVE my stationary) and it was great, the first time I used it. Since then it has started to leak the sand stuff that weights it down and has made a mess all over my dressing table!
Word of warning, be very gentle with it and keep upright!

My parents asked what I wanted them to contribute to xmas (since they are coming here for dinner) so I said to Dad he can buy the crackers (was going to make them but didn't get around to it) and that I want posh ones! Asked Mum to make the pigs in blankets as she made lovely ones last year, she was actually really flattered so win/win there lol. Seems a bit mean I'm making her bring the one thing she won't eat (she's veggie!) but she was so pleased that everyone loved them!

Think that's all I'll ask of them as they are more skint than us and a LOT less organised so they are already panicking about presents for all of us. I told Dad the kids will have so many toys anyway not to worry about them, just get something cheap and expendible. Told Mum I'd like purple nail varnish (should only be about a fiver). Thing is they know I've bought them a big present this year (thanks OH!) and I've already got it - Duvet, pillows and a duvet cover set. Theirs are so old, they never spend money on things like that so I thought I'd treat them.

Thats lovely! I bet they will like that.

I am stumped with what to get my mum I have got some make up from primark (half price and i might do a mini make up hamper and see if i can get some offers on proper make up , although i have brought her a rimmel eye shadow things which was on sale for 99p at savers.

I might see if i can get her a game for her DS , what i do not know.

She loves pink funky things , clothes make up ect , but is hard to buy clothes for.

Hope every one is well.

With my dad ill be adding a gillete razor , some linx and some aftershave! Maybe another top anad hopefully jeans , but its all money and time! I wish i kicked my self into gear sooner!
x

mum2one

junior_j wrote: »

Thats lovely! I bet they will like that.

I am stumped with what to get my mum I have got some make up from primark (half price and i might do a mini make up hamper and see if i can get some offers on proper make up , although i have brought her a rimmel eye shadow things which was on sale for 99p at savers.

I might see if i can get her a game for her DS , what i do not know.

She loves pink funky things , clothes make up ect , but is hard to buy clothes for.

Hope every one is well.

With my dad ill be adding a gillete razor , some linx and some aftershave! Maybe another top anad hopefully jeans , but its all money and time! I wish i kicked my self into gear sooner!
x

Just a thought re make up, boots no 7 have got an offer on, spend over £6.00, get a free boxed set, purple nail polish, black (think) mascara, and a silver eyeshadow, I got lipstick + blusher for just under £7.00.

Pink fluffy, try argos, just put pink fluffy in search box, together + seperate, there give you a good selection.

Theres a lot of bargains at the mo, worth looking online, esp as a new batch of sale items start 2mor xx

elyphant

The tree is up!!!! Yay!!!! Had a call from OH yesterday while I was at work, he was frantically searching for the decorations in the attic, where had I put them and all that. We searched for them when I got home and turns out the electricians who were up there recently doing our new lights had tucked that particular box in the most out of the way place!

But anyway, we found them and had great fun with our DSs putting the tree up and decorating it. I find it hilarious cos I like to let the boys put things wherever they like on the tree, but DH likes it to look nice, so he's always moving things, going on 'don't put all the green ones together, look, spread them out like this...'. Lovely to see the lights twinkling and boys love it.

Rufusdog I'm sending you a great big hug, must be very difficult for you at the moment. Try to keep positive. {{{hugs}}}

jamtart6

Havent caught up with the thread but if anyone has any ideas for 50 year old mum's presents PLEASE help! I am so stuck! she likes nothing ive done everything before, the photo album, the scrapbook, several hampers.... helpppp!!!

Shevs

Hi everyone, sorry i've not been on for a few days been really busy.

Ooo amazon have annoyed me, held one of my pressesnts i ordered hostage for over a month, even though it said the dvd was in stock emailed to me to say that they no longer had any and they werent getting any others:mad: anyway I managed to find it 50p cheaper off another site and had an email to say its been dispatched. Hopefully arrive today or tomrrow and thats all the pressents arrived.

This week is going to be really christmassy for me, going to see that Nativity film tomorrow and going to the manchester christmas market on friday and off to the panto saturday afternoon!!!! Oooo I am really excited!!!!!!

xXx

fedupandskint

jamtart6 wrote: »

Havent caught up with the thread but if anyone has any ideas for 50 year old mum's presents PLEASE help! I am so stuck! she likes nothing ive done everything before, the photo album, the scrapbook, several hampers.... helpppp!!!

A couple of suggestions jammy,

Dressing gown/nightie or pjs and slippers (Peacocks/Home Bargains (mega cheap and good quality) or Primarni or Mr A) alongside a new alarm clock or travel alarm and if feeling flush or budget allows a DAB one- I used my lightspeed voucher to half the price from Amazon for a Pure one.

Food hamper - tins of ham/red salmon/cheese/pickles/crackers/picalili or a Christmas cake, nice tin of discounted biscuits from the supermarkets, box of chocolates or nuts or substitute anything else she likes to eat which is treaty and can last a bit longer.

Hope to help I know how hard they can be to buy for. I have made a homemade hamper for my mum after I gave her a jar of HM chutney last year which she loved and will pop a bottle of wine in there too. If she liked tea I would be tempted to buy some bits from Home Bargains as they had some great tea set items from the Love to Shop range last time I was in there

fedupandskint

junior_j wrote: »

Where is the best place for nice (but small) selection box's as with the few pounds i have left I want to add these to the children's presents.Thanks xx

Have you got a Mr A or Wilkos or a market close by. Can't remember the price in Mr A but they had a load of the small selection boxes when I was last in