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

hayley11

I bought my folder today and i've put dividers, plastic wallets and some writing paper in Going to print some stuff off for it tomorrow, feeling very organised :j

mum2one

Wow, welcome on board ladies, were a friendly bunch, extremely mad about Christmas and bargain hunting.....

Theres a sister thread run by the wonderful Jamtart, its based on making money for all ocassions and we spend it.

Heres the link

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...html?t=1678781

kalojac

sarahf191979 wrote: »

http://www.ministryofdeals.com/

Found on the freebie board, just order the free gift, no postage to pay... I got a lovely t.shirt maker :j.

Sarah
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1. I've just sent away from mine, don't know if you seen this on the Freebies board or not, but grabitnow..co.uk. had a free gift also stating it was worth up to £14.99 I ordered mine and a USB light was sent, and it looks as though that is what everyone else got too, so if that is any use for anyone's xmas, you could order that, there were no PP charges or anything.
2. Also yesterday, I was on Play.com looking on at the kids books because I want to give my 2 older nieces (age 10 & 8) PJ Party Hampers again. I got 2 x Jacqueline Wilson's - Tracy Beaker's Thumping Heart Books for 0.99 each with free PP. It is the Red Nose Day 09 edition, but still its a book all the same and is perfect for the PJ Party Hamper.

Kalojac :santa2:

scattymam1

Claire I'm due my second in november so I'm getting as organised as possible NOW too...I'm doing the holiday grand plan off www.organizedchristmas.com but I'm changing the dates slightly so I finish it all off early :-)

I had a load of stuff arrive yesterday, I got a fiorelli purse gift set cheap off ebay and it's immaculate - apparently it retails at 20pounds but I got it for a fiver...quite fancy it myself, ha ha. I got a book for my dad for his birthday and have ordered a silver bookmark engraved with the bairns photo for him too. I got the whole police academy dvd set - 7 dvd's for 15.00 which I think is great and have hidden away for christmas for hubby.

First day of the kids holidays here and it is chucking it down - hasn't stopped for hours. So I'm going to blitz the house as I have loads of rainy day things for the bairn to do - I so bought out home bargains kids craft aisle - ha ha

Have a productive day everyone x

fruit-loop

mum2one wrote: »

Congratulations aswell to you fruit-loop - r we haveing a mini baby boom xx

thanks mum2one.

Congratulations to you to scattymam1 :j Looks like mum2one could be right about the baby boom lol.

Rainmac - That muffin mix in a jar looks good enough to eat as it is! :T

Right an update - I listed 9 items on ebay last night. I also bought a folder yesterday and I am armed and ready to defrost the freezers tomorrow. So I think thats a fair start.

scattymam1

oh ha ha you too fruit - loop - congrats...the last thing we want is to be christmas shopping with a new baby, imagine all the pushing and shoving -no thanks- I've set a date of sep 31st to have all pressies in so I can have them wrapped in october.

Fishcake_Random

Hey all,
Just spotted in my local Wilko`s that all the fancy "fluffy" yarns are on offer for 25p. I nabbed £2`s worth so I add scarfs to all my hampers for the ladies. A nice easy project for me in front of the telly. Thought I`d share the heads up.
x x x

SugarSpun

There's definitely a baby boom - I'm hoping to produce mine in the next week or so... at an absolute maximum it'll be three weeks today!

Edit: Christmas shopping is done, as is all the birthday shopping for this year. Nothing is wrapped and won't be till I get to my parents' house in December (with the little one) - and since I have gone a little bit overboard with the pregnant brain forgetting that I've already bought things for people, a bunch of birthdays next year are probably also covered.

I made an "accidental" Halfcost order yesterday, including some cheap interim clothes for me for between being enormously pregnant and my regular clothes. It also had some gift items in it, including Galaxy Invaders games for my dad, brother and husband so they can all play their own and compare scores. £3 each. Score!

RustyFlange

Oh wow sugarspun it seems to have gone so fast!!! only seems like yesterday when you announced the fab news!! Good luck

Can I just double check when I have to have the freezers done by?

Can I also check when the next mini challenge will be?

I did do the list and bought the scrapbooks as per choccys last challenge, I also have a list of presents already in my cupboard (or at least one of them) i can't get in my sons bedroom at the min due to all of his toys all over the floor so until he tidys it up later that will have to wait! I am seriously lacking inspiration for crafty stuff so thats on a hold at the minute. I need to work out how many weeks til christmas cause I need to make a start on the christmas cards which I hope will all be made by me this year!

scattymam1

wow hats off to you sugarspun -you have inspired me to get on with mine...need to collect in all my vouchers, etc; so I can get on with the buying x