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

mum2one

I think me off to Morrisons, have to wait till 2mor.....meant to be slugging away ay assisgnment 2day... then delightful dentist 2mor for a cracked tooth!! xx

massive massive thank you susan xx

Pips_Mum

cdsmiler wrote: »

so I'm looking for stocking fillers suitable for a 1 year old - to tell Father Christmas about obviously!!

Pip was 1 just after Christmas last year and his stocking i just put some choccy buttons, a little jingle bells rattle from Mothercare it was only a couple of ££s, A christmas board book form HB (that can come out again this year) and a Christmas rubber duck!

mary-op

Hello all :j

You do all seem to be getting some bargains..........well done :T I've normally had a Hawkins Bazaar catalogue by now -think I'll have to order another one just for bits and pieces for little grandsons stocking.
Meant to go into town today and it poured down with rain so I've shelved that idea till tomorrow. Made some note cards instead........just for myself........got letters to write and was running short.
OH just had a rant..........the lad we look after it seems has eaten all the cheese :eek: Just when we were going to have jacket potatos with cheese and salad :mad: He's not a happy chappy:mad:

elysia -I've pm'd you............thanks:)

Having bad hair day :eek:and just found out our hairdressers is closed due to a flood from the flat above:( In desparate need of a ''tidy up'' of my fly away mop !

Found some boxes of chocolates an old friend sent me in a hamper this year.......sell by date not till 2011-ooops..........second look and two of them are July 2010 !! Will they still be ok ? I'm putting them upstairs with my christmas stash anyway...........they're ones I know I won't eat and OH not a choccy fan. There's 3 boxes plus box of clotted cream shortbread biscuits-oh, might keep the shortbreads...................lol:rotfl:

cookiecrumbs

Hello all

Job interview all done and dusted :j just got to wait and see what happens next now... Still, it's a load off my mind now that it's over with.

Am going to the seaside in Devon for a long weekend tomorrow so that will be relaxing!

Just organised a shopping day with my sister so that we can get Christmas presents sorted early - think she was a bit shocked since we always leave everything to the last minute but she went along with it!

Rufusdog - I might go to the stitching show too, have started a quilt making course so it could be useful and by the time it's on in October I might even know what I'm doing!!

Anyway, all have a good weekend (know it's a day early but won't be back online properly until next week.

Anglea

Hi all

Mary, after reading your post about the food, when my boys are home on a visit, I hide loads of food in my bedroom, including cheese Tuesday when one of them was leaving I wasn't best pleased to discover all the desserts were missing! I didn't think he liked them, so thought it was safe to keep them in the fridge.

All those of you with small children, just you wait.............they'll eat anything that isn't nailed down when they're older!

Toffeeapple - how many pots of gold are you making?

mary-op

Angela - what is it about cheese ? Seems all the boys we've had seem to go mad for it and it disappears so quickly............wouldn't mind if they let us know when it was down to the last sandwich full.........or especially when its gone altogether. We've tried hiding some spare in the freezer but they find it............lol Leave some out and its never the sort they like..........maybe thats the answer........we'll buy smaller portions of cheddar and big chunks of danish blue...............lol:rotfl:
OH got dinner all sorted tonight and our lad comes in having bought two packets of noodles which he decided was his dinner..............gammon steaks ? Oh no......not when there's noodles.............lol:rotfl:
I give up..............lol

toffeeapple

Anglea wrote: »

Hi all

Mary, after reading your post about the food, when my boys are home on a visit, I hide loads of food in my bedroom, including cheese Tuesday when one of them was leaving I wasn't best pleased to discover all the desserts were missing! I didn't think he liked them, so thought it was safe to keep them in the fridge.

All those of you with small children, just you wait.............they'll eat anything that isn't nailed down when they're older!

Toffeeapple - how many pots of gold are you making?

I have a few orders in already for pots of gold from friends and I am making them to give everybody one as teatime presents on Xmas day.... and then if I get round to it I might do some without scratch cards for my xmas stall at the school fair.

toffeeapple

mary-op wrote: »

Angela - what is it about cheese ? Seems all the boys we've had seem to go mad for it and it disappears so quickly............wouldn't mind if they let us know when it was down to the last sandwich full.........or especially when its gone altogether. We've tried hiding some spare in the freezer but they find it............lol Leave some out and its never the sort they like..........maybe thats the answer........we'll buy smaller portions of cheddar and big chunks of danish blue...............lol:rotfl:
OH got dinner all sorted tonight and our lad comes in having bought two packets of noodles which he decided was his dinner..............gammon steaks ? Oh no......not when there's noodles.............lol:rotfl:
I give up..............lol

My 8 year old son is obsessed by cheese already... only cheddar though, he doesn't touch my cheshire!!!

NickyBo_2

Anglea wrote: »

Hi all

All those of you with small children, just you wait.............they'll eat anything that isn't nailed down when they're older!

Haha, I don't even have to wait! My boy is 3 in a few months and he already wonders off to the fridge to help himself. It's usually the cheese he goes for first. He always does it when I'm on the phone so I can't run after him straight away! He came in once with an enormous slab of cheese and he had nibbled it all around the edges, it looked like a mouse had found it :rotfl: When I started to go over to him to take it away, he shoved as much as possible into his mouth! Now he is a bit taller he can reach the cutlery drawer so he often helps himself to a yoghurt and spoon then comes to me to take the lid off the yoghurt His catchphrase seems to be 'I'm hungry!'.

Anglea

toffeeapple, I was wondering about those 50 glasses you bought, so thanks for your answer. I wonder how mine would react to Cheshire cheese - might give it a try.

Mary, when I keep the cheese in my bedroom it goes a bit floppy so sometimes I hide it in the veg drawer. I find Christmas very difficult and have given up making a trifle because that tends to get started sometime the night before! I used to keep it in the garage but find it a nuisance. Kids!!!