New Thrifty Gifty - Organised for Christmas and all ocassions 2010- Santas Challenges

susan42

Hi nickynoo welcome back and thats brilliant your presents wd:T

fed upand skint - i`m sure your mum will be delighted with your purchases, sounds like good bargains there...i just come back from moorrisons and they have some little stools for £2.50, I got a couple for camping...:D

Sarah - have a good camp - hope the weather holds up for you:cool:

Mary - where you gone?

Elysia what a great bargain on the wall paper, we havent any in our house just emulsion, which is just as well as OH not very good at DIY - saying that mind he took up gardening this year and we seem to have plants everywhere....his mate said plant twice as many as you need and you`ll lose a lot.....we lost hardly any and were giving tomato plants to everyone that walked past:j

mary-op

Hello all :j

fedupandskint -well done on the gardening bargains

nicky - you sound so organised (hangs head in shame and feels a panic coming on :eek:)

susan - I'm still here.............been making some phone charms (thanks to you:T) only done two as they're a bit fiddly being small then I ran out of beads. Not sure whatelse I could use thats kicking about the house.
Stuck goggle eyes on flannel snowman and thats about it.
Upset stomach this morning......:( Hope thats not coming back..........!!

Our lad has gone walkabout -didn't come home last night so had to report to police that he wasn't here.
Expect he'll be back when he wants something........usually is............:)

Oh well...........best have a look about and see what I've missed.............:rotfl:

fedupandskint

Half my debenhams order has just arrived and they've sent an extra buffet saucer by accident - never mind the gods above must have wanted us to have one each!

Surprised by the quick delivery however v.nice

Updated my list of presents for Christmas - going well and have got 3/4 of mums

Researched a couple of gardening books which are around a fiver on book people instead of a tenner on amazon

Gardening hampers are halfway there now with only a couple of things left to pop in - books and seat/stool etc

Should come into budget ok. Looked at one on m+s which was £35 - now way! Should come well under that or if it is near that price it will have much more in it and better quality items

elysia2003

Oh wow - fedup! Well done on the plate - It's a reward for all your hard work. :beer:

I hope you're feeling better Mary.

Susan - If you have a Next account, random customers get a chance to order sale stuff online before the sale begins in the store (VIP). It started today but my slot was on Thursday.

Everything I wanted had sold out but I showed OH the bed as he's always saying we need more storage, and he said as its a bargain - buy it!!!

mcjordi

hi gals and guys

bought a dora the explorer watch BNIB for £1.04 plus postage will be for one of the neices

NickyBo_2

I've managed to be quite organised this week. At work, we get book companies bringing in products for us to look at and buy. They are usually much cheaper than normal retail prices and they have some lovely things. This week I bought a set of 4 Thomas the Tank Engine activity books for my son. They are early education ones e.g. early reading, writing, numbers etc. He's a bit too young for them at the moment but hopefully by Christmas he will be almost ready for them.

I'm pleased with myself too, as I bought all my end of term presents months ago and now I am feeling the benefit I have two teaching assistants and two parent helpers in my class, so that would have meant an expensive weekend dashing around buying presents ready for next week. However, I did it all in the Christmas sales so I can relax instead I also have two birthdays on Thursday and I have those presents bought too, I've never been this organised before and I LOVE it

mum2one

DD came home in a mood Fri ngt, as the teaching assistant in her class is leaving, she's been there 15yrs, and they took a photo of most of the class, and it was why couldn't I be on, the school said you've said no, but I've been in the paper, felt sorry in my heart for her, its very true she's been in the paper, but as I had to explain to her, if she has her photo taken as school, (blue summer dress), but it would mention the school, got ... but why....... not the time to have "that discussion", just glossed over as dad can't know what school ur at, bless her she turned around I've got my dada here, I know he's my grandad, but he's the only dad I've known and he's mine......

So got very mse present - she loves gardening - had a free mini gardening set from catalogue (free gift) with any order, order knickers for mother!, and put one of the pig watering cans with it.

We're having the sleep over 2ngt, sat here with glass cider, dip dab, and refresher chew!!

Took them to the farm, dad came with us, they loved it, they groomed ponies, dd took a 18hand clysdale horse for a walk in the courtyard, they bottle fed a lamb, stroked rabbits and ginuea pigs, tractor ride, milked a cow, they hated that..(determined that they did everything!!... all they wanted to do was play in the sandpit ......it was everywhere, had to take them to the loo and strip them to empty the sand out but they were happy.

Stopped via Asda, the lad at the checkout was really friendly, (if only I was 20 years younger!!), the kids packed, got some sweets for midnight picnic.....said as soon as were packed chippy for tea, - dds friend asks the cashier if he wants to come to the chippy with us, and then home as were going to do some crafting!! I went scarlet, he laughed........

We were productive 2ngt, they've made photo frames from lolly pops, mini notepad.

They then wanted to watch dvd - 9pm, - took up Simpsons at Christmas, went up 10.45, dds friend fast asleep, apparently she fell asleep within 5 mins of getting into bed, dd sat there munching through the popcorn.... and got can I come down and watch TV with you......NO ........ go to sleep!!

Tomorrow - they want to do mini notebook and memo box holder, make alice band and hair accessories..... then she goes back after dinner!!

xx
Very mse - Dayout - free ticket, chippie - dad paid.... xx

susan42

Hi All,:santa2:

Feeling christmassy I am....:j

I sorry bout DD mum2one, I had same thing with mine two as I wouldnt allow them to be photographed due to ex....I took them out on the sat like you did made a big thing of the day, they completely forgot the photo and always remembered the day out

Nickbo - excellent organising , pat on the back for you;)

Mcjordi, if I`d seen dora watch I would have got one at that price:T well done

Thxs elysia for the info, my son worked in next once , they gave him 4hrs every sale day....4am til 8am, he went once and said i`m never going again, people were taking partners piling everything on them quick as they could and when they could hold no more they were working out what they were keeping and throwing the rest for people to trample on. His job was to keep the peace :eek:

Mary - hope the young lad turns up soon and doesnt cause too much stress:o

Fedup and skint - we buy our gardening books in charity shop , most are new at a fraction of the cost :T, They are that new you cant tell if they have been used before....;)

Well we`re off to Blackpool, we are Batley Bulldogs supporters and they`re playing in the final today, we `re the underdogs so we not expecting much ...just a good game :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

elysia2003

Fingers crossed for a win for you Susan. What's that? Football, Rugby?

Well done on all your organising Nicki, you should be really proud of yourself. You too Mcjordi!

Mum2one - I'm glad you've had a good weekend. It sounded fun.

I've been to a preview of the film Karate kid today. It must be the only remake, I actually like as much as, if not more than, the original. Totally recommend it, and not just for the ones who have young kids. It's great!

Have you heard? Tom Cruise is doing a Top Gun 2. Now that is just :eek: .

mary-op

Hello all :j
Young lad came back ok last night at 6pm....couldn't understand what the fuss was about -then went out again when I told him I had to call police to let them know he was back.......he came back hour later and went upstairs-policemen came before he got the chance to run off so that was that. He's been fine eversince..........mind you he's not back for dinner yet..............not that thats anything to go by with his timekeeping.............lol:rotfl:
Tummy is ok today (fingers crossed it stays that way) but didn't bother with boot fair....weather was miserable and very windy.
So, did a bit more to scrapbook no.2 instead........only 3 pages but I'm getting there........least I'm over half way...............lol:rotfl: