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

Anglea

Hi whizzer, glad you could join us and passed the initiation test with the freezer!.

Re my earlier post about getting a hamper ready for my son. He's gone out camping overnight so I can get his box ready in a minute.. That freebie computer light arrived this morning so I can add that for him.

sarahf191979

whizzer01 wrote: »

SarahF thank you for all the freebie links and also saw you mentioned Dr who dvds i have just ordered for a friend series 2 vol1 for £2.39 free delivery from sendit.com they had lots of different volumes but think it may be for 1 day only today.

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Hi Wizzer, welcome to the thread. Thanks for the tip on the DR Who Dvd's will have a look on there later.

Sarah
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fruit-loop

Hi All

I'd love to join you if thats ok. I'm joining in the thrifty moneymaking / saving thread too.

You all have uch wonderful ideas that I would never come up with!:j My freezers really need doing so I will start with that challenge this weekend.:rolleyes:

Rusty - We had that deal for legoland last year went at the end oct so we were there for the fireworks. It was great and I'm sure you will all have a great time.

mum2one

Hi Whizzer and Fruit-loop - welcome to the thread, we all made and aimingto be organised for xmas.

I know there seems a lot of pages to go through, but if its any help

Page 1 - Post 1 - that has all the links to Santas challenges and any extra info for xmas

Page 1 - Post 3 - theres the links for the mini challenges set by Choccy (whos beong the christmas elf), I can't craft, so any crafting I leave to Choccy, otherwise you'd be glued or sellotaped to the paper and thas b4 you even cut anything!
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ellemm

Received my first parcel of goodies from Flowerhour very pleased with that and just wish I could get wrapping something!!

Still on the lookout for suitable boxes to do retro sweeties and as lots of sales on at the moment looking out for any bargains for the kids in the family which I can keep for Christmas. (Local BHS was selling clothes for £1 and £5 but nothing jumped out at me)

Folder coming along nicely, calendar done on when I hope to have things completed, obviously list of presents and progress there as well as detailed spreadsheet - sheet for each person - of everything bought, where from, any discount and actual prices. (sad!!??)

Need to order more stuff to make the bath bombs and make a start on those so still feeling motivated.

cdsmiler

Hello everyone!

I've been lurking for about a week or so and am now SO excited about Christmas. Hubby thinks I'm mad, but nothing new there!

I've ordered my first 4 christmas pressies yesterday, and the total came to less than £20, so I'm happy!

Last year I was quite crafty - in the food sense anyway! - we made food hampers for different friends and family members which included Christmas tree shaped shortbread biscuits, citrus cake and some chocolate truffles!!! Went down really well, but unfortunately this year it won't be practical (meant a lot of baking the night before we sawy people!) - we're expecting our first baby in the middle of December!!!! Wooooo!

So this year might have to be a bit craft free.....although I do fancy doing the Snowman poops.....how long do the marshmallows last in cellofane bags??

Oh and I also did Christmas cards using a picture we took on our honeymoon of 3 male lions. I photoshopped a crown on each one and wrote beneath "We three kings...". lol people loved them but I have NO idea what to do this year. Might have to dig out my old cross stitch stuff...

Someone just mentioned "365 facts"? What was that one? Sounds interesting! I want to add it to my Christmas Idea Notebook!!! lol (all you lot's fault for me having that!!)

Haven't defrosted the freezer yet (it needs it!) - we're off camping this weekend for a few days, so I'll be looking at doing the freezer in the next week or so!

I'm normally pretty organised for christmas (start hasselling people for christmas lists earlier than everyone thinks in necessary lol ) but I think from now onwards, the earlier the better. So I'm a bit of a newbie with getting ready this early on, so I've missed out on getting cheap wrapping paper and stuff. Picked up 3 rolls I think, but nothing else....so if anyone sees any fab deals on wrapping paper, let me know?

Just wanted to say a BIG thank you to all you lovely people for allowing me to get Christmas Crazy nice and early and to show me that I'm not alone!! lol

That was a bit of a long post for a first post!! Sorry!! :snow_laug

Clare xx

mum2one

Hi Clare

Welcome to the mad world of xmas planning, congratulations on the Dec baby, guess its organised early.

Just a thought re food hampers, could you change it slightly and use some shop items, I do 2 food trays for the neighbours both older men, inc things like mini jams (go to Morrisons - sell all yr round -) 5 jars of mini jam / marmalades £1.00, add some shortbread etc.

Dont forget the choc, u need a treat after doing the freezers xx

cdsmiler

Hi mum2one!

Thanks for the welcome! Just been copying and saving a few sweet recipies that you posted on another thread!! lol

Think I'll give the food hamper idea a miss this year, but thanks for that. I really wante to find those mini-jams to put in my Nan's hamper, but could I find any?! Checked ASDA, Tesco, Aldi...didn't think of Morrisons!! I shall keep that in mind for the future!

Going to definitely do a movie night hamper for my friend and her little boy (amazon voucher, popcorn, pop, beer for her, sweets, etc etc.) and thinking of recycling some unwanted gifts to make into pamper hampers for SIL and one of my friends.....still thinking really......

Oooo and I'm going to a PYO farm this weekend, so I'll be making raspberry jam very soon!! Extra pressies!!

Better stop, before this gets too long again... lol

Clare xxx

rainmac

cdsmiler wrote: »

Hello everyone!

Someone just mentioned "365 facts"? What was that one? Sounds interesting! I want to add it to my Christmas Idea Notebook!!! lol (all you lot's fault for me having that!!)

Hi Clare, I've got a list in Word/Excel of 365 facts that you can print, cut up and pop in a jar/box for a cheapie present. I gave a jar to my dad and one to OH for his desk at work. If you are interested please pm me your email address and I'll send you the list.

rainmac

Sorry I haven't posted, been very busy and not very able to think much about Christmas at the mo. Hope to be back with a vengence next month.

Here are a few pressie ideas...

Journal Jars - I've made loads of these (made up my own questions) and they've always been well received... http://organizedchristmas.com/adult-journal-jar

Mulled wine gift - http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2921/mulled-wine-kit

Christmas muffin mix in a jar - http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2920/christmas-muffin-mix. We made these last year and they were lovely.

Chocolate truffles (these can be frozen) - http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/8272/melting-middle-truffles

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