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

mary-op

elysia - had a look but think it would be too hard for 3yr old and 18 yr old might get bored (well my grandson would I expect...........lol)

Pips_Mum

Better late than never!

Cdsmiler - Pips 1st Birthday was Jan 9th so very close to Chrimbo the same as your LO. We got him a trike, here is the girls version:

http://www.toysrus.co.uk/Toys-R-Us/Bikes-and-Rideons/Trikes/Smart-Trike-Plus-in-Rosetto%280076557%29

It adapts loads so he can use it now but also when he is bigger. It seems like a lot of money but we just got him the 1 present. He is too little to notice Mummy and Daddy only bought 1 pressie.

I am getting caught up with all the fab ideas x x

mum2one

cdsmiler wrote: »

There were loads of those types of things in the Studio Christmas Catalogue. We missed out on that with DD. She was Due mid December and at one point I had an appointment for her to be induced on the 24th December!!!! lol So we refrained from getting any 'baby's first christmas' stuff just incase! Luckily one of our friends got us a lovely white puppy cuddly toy saying 'baby's first christmas' so we have something.

mum2one - at what age did you give Miss Hoodie her bracelets? What age did she appreciate them and look after them?

Sorry Angela!! lol

Mary - sounds fab. Never been to Scotland - it's on my to-do list!!

Clare x

She had the gold in her jewellery box, but there on high shelf in the wardrobe, she was about 4 or 5 when she wanted to wear it, her silver one shes seen more of it, sounds daft, but introduced her to her, last yr in Tunisia, she was 6 1/2, and she was choosing charms.

She had a silver necklace, forever friends and chewed it, but then again, as a child I always bit my rings, I had my 1st gold at 11 and treasured it. She'll wear jewellery now, and ok with it. Shes sold some of her christening jewellery and a couple of rings, she treasures a few pieces, when she was 6 mths old, I brought her a gold dolphin necklace, it was the 1st time she'd been horse racing, from my winnings, but becoz theres a sentimetal attached to it, not allowed near it. Shes got good taste, be expensive for some man.

With her silver charms, shes had 2 from Orient Express, and some from Tunisia have been egyptian theme, loves the pyramids, sort of been led by that.

x

mum2one

Pips_Mum wrote: »

Better late than never!

Cdsmiler - Pips 1st Birthday was Jan 9th so very close to Chrimbo the same as your LO. We got him a trike, here is the girls version:

http://www.toysrus.co.uk/Toys-R-Us/Bikes-and-Rideons/Trikes/Smart-Trike-Plus-in-Rosetto%280076557%29

It adapts loads so he can use it now but also when he is bigger. It seems like a lot of money but we just got him the 1 present. He is too little to notice Mummy and Daddy only bought 1 pressie.

I am getting caught up with all the fab ideas x x

How are you, hope there not working you too hard, def agree re the one toy, I lost count of the stuff of her ladyships that didn't get used, just felt guilty and went overboard, that was pre mse days!!

xx

Giggle

Pips_Mum wrote: »

Better late than never!

Cdsmiler - Pips 1st Birthday was Jan 9th so very close to Chrimbo the same as your LO. We got him a trike, here is the girls version:

http://www.toysrus.co.uk/Toys-R-Us/Bikes-and-Rideons/Trikes/Smart-Trike-Plus-in-Rosetto%280076557%29

It adapts loads so he can use it now but also when he is bigger. It seems like a lot of money but we just got him the 1 present. He is too little to notice Mummy and Daddy only bought 1 pressie.

I am getting caught up with all the fab ideas x x

i love them we are going to get are grandson one but we are after the All in one 1 just trying to find the best price on it

supa-girl

I soooooooo wish I had known about this thread at the start of the year! Is it too late to join now? I am hoping to have an offset Christmas this year, or at least 50% of it offset, so need to get my finger out!

Borrowed a kids craft book from the library today, with a view to getting the kids started on cards and gifts and it was so good I bought a second hand copy on amazon for £2 (rrp £10) so will get started next week hopefully.

Will try to complete the challenges from this point on if that will work? Not sure if it matters that I've missed most of the year? Will DEF sign of at the beginning of next year though!

NickyBo_2

Hi and welcome Supa-girl :beer: I hope you enjoy it here!

I've had so much fun today! We had a very MSE trip out that I found out about on the Netmums website. Our local country park held a free teddy bear's picnic so we took DS along with his favourite teddy - very originally named pink ted. It's the girliest, fluffiest, bright pink teddy that used to belong to my Mum, but DS saw it and fell in love with it so she gave it to him, he's not even slightly concerned that it's so girly! Anyway, we took DS and pink ted to the park and had our picnic. They had an entertainer, a man making balloon animals (DS got an elephant) and someone dressed up as Winnie the Pooh! The best bit was the teddy parade where all the kids lined up with their teddies. They then gave out prizes and certificates for various things, pink ted got 2nd place for scruffiest bear :rotfl:DS got a lovely certificate and big frog cuddly toy, he's so pleased. A lovely day out and all for the price of a £1.10 car park ticket.


After the picnic we went to Tesco and doubled up the clubcard vouchers. I got £40 worth of toys for free, yeay! I love the double up deals. Everything we got is for DS, either birthday or Christmas so I feel like I'm doing well with his prezzies now.

NickyBo_2

Oh, just remembered something else! In Tesco they have the big flexy tubs reduced to £2.50, from over £5. I bought 2 for storing bigger toys but they'd be great containers for gift hampers. Here's a link to the set of 3 on the Tesco site, but the cheaper price doesn't show online: http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.207-8033.aspx

fedupandskint

Thanks Nicky - I'll have a look for these tomorrow as they will be great for the 2 gardening hampers I'm putting together and the car clean hamper too - hope they still have some left when I get there!

mcjordi

havent checked in for a while but have got
a buzz type game dvd with the controllers from Home bargains for 1.99 and
a chalkboard/abacus thing from wilkos in the half price sale for 73p..

am i the only bloke on here ?? lol