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

hels102

I love coming in here to catch up it makes me feeling all christmasy!!!
Sarah your posts really make me smile!
Scatty I love your pink watering can!

I'm on a mission to get christmas presents/hampers etc finished by the end of Sept, we are getting married on the 11th Dec so it's going to be a manic but romantic christmas I'm so excited :-) x

ellemm

Have had a very productive day today starting with clearing out the large walk in cupboard in the hall which was at the point of just standing at the door and throwing things in.....yes it was badly in need of a tidy :eek:

So two loads to the dump and lots of sorting later, it now looks great and we "found" lots of things that were "lost"

Also managed to free up some small baskets which may be of use for hampers at a later date.

Finished the day by making a batch of Nigella's chilli jam which I have been dying to try since I got the book last Christmas. Just put it into 6 small Ikea jars and I must say it looks lovely, hope it tastes good too. (Did obviously have a taste and think it will be OK once it matures a bit, certainly has a bit of bite to it).

The jam should be a nice addition to the foodie hampers I have planned for my two sons.

Lucy_Lu_4

98jdougl wrote: »

Had quite a good day today- the works had a clearance sale on so managed to pick up quite a few bits and bobs and not a penny spent on myself (until fags at the end of the day oops!)

Ooooo 98jdougl, I love The Works! What fab buys did you get?

Lucy_Lu_4

kiminijane wrote: »

Also managed to book one fo the holoidays from the Sun for a tenner each today, so I'm off to Devon Cliffs in November with my girlfriends for a long weekend. Yeeeeeah its a Haven camp, but hey - who doesn't love them eh?!

I've been there! I went when I was a child but there's adult entertainment in the evenings. You'll have a fab time, there's loads of swimming pools, crazy golf, entertainment, can't remember what else.

Lucy_Lu_4

hayley11 wrote: »

I received another one of those usb card reader things today, I don't even remember asking for one! :rotfl:

I got two as well!

Lucy_Lu_4

Kalojac - I love your bag full of space goodies, what a lovely idea.

Scattymam - your present is just stunning, well done.

My boyfriend and I spent today cleaning and tidying which afterwards felt really satisfying.

I also went through my latest present buys and have written everything down and how much things cost, ready to update my spreadsheet.

A good day's work!

rufusdog52

Update about the Italy school trip, well its off already. The little so and so has lost her new mobile phone after having it for just a week. Honestly I have never known a girl like it for losing things. First she lost her plate for her teeth a few weeks ago (which cost us £60 to replace) then a couple of days later lost her old phone so OH lent her his old phone which she lost the same day, then she found her old phone and has been using that but it doesnt work properly so we bought her a new up to date one for her birthday (OH paid nearly £100 for it) and now its gone. She also lost some of her birthday money last week on the way up the town to buy herself something with it. What on earth are we going to do with her??? Who'd have teenagers!!!

sarahf191979

rufusd!!!2 wrote: »

Update about the Italy school trip, well its off already. The little so and so has lost her new mobile phone after having it for just a week. Honestly I have never known a girl like it for losing things. First she lost her plate for her teeth a few weeks ago (which cost us £60 to replace) then a couple of days later lost her old phone so OH lent her his old phone which she lost the same day, then she found her old phone and has been using that but it doesnt work properly so we bought her a new up to date one for her birthday (OH paid nearly £100 for it) and now its gone. She also lost some of her birthday money last week on the way up the town to buy herself something with it. What on earth are we going to do with her??? Who'd have teenagers!!!

Oh Dear, what is she like, teenagers :eek: I'm dreading the day when mine turn 13:eek: I always think of the harry enfield skit when kevin turns into a teenager :rotfl:can just imagine my boys doing the same.

sarahf191979

Well Just when I thought I had the all clear to go out today, DS2 came down with really bad flu symptoms yesterday so called the new pandemic line to be told he had swine flu too and needed the Tamiflu.

Had a real job of getting the tablets for him yesterday as the ref code they gave me to go collect them was for the wrong dosage (they had him as being 15 and he's 5 ) and they wouldn't give me another code, so had to go see the out of hours doctor to get the right dose :mad: all in all took 4 hours from start to finish, what a polava, and I wasn't the only one who had been perscribed the wrong dose, when I got diagnosed last week by the doctor it took an hour from the call to getting the tablets, so much for this pandemic line making everyones life easier:rolleyes:.

And now have the task of trying to get my 5 year old to have a tablet, he couldn't swollow it so have been mixing it in his yogart this morning and icecream tonight, he says that they taste like washing powder.

Not even thought about Xmas today.

sarahf191979

hels102 wrote: »

I love coming in here to catch up it makes me feeling all christmasy!!!
Sarah your posts really make me smile!
Scatty I love your pink watering can!

I'm on a mission to get christmas presents/hampers etc finished by the end of Sept, we are getting married on the 11th Dec so it's going to be a manic but romantic christmas I'm so excited :-) x

Thanks hels102.