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

NickyBo_2

mum2one wrote: »

Got a full refund and an apology!!

We saw a different manager, he tried palming us off with it works..... till he switched it on and it said he was doing 25miles an hr..

He apologised for the inconvience we had with it, refunded in full, then said do you want me to fetch you another model to look at!!

So off to Halfords we went 5 mins later, new Sat Nav, all set up ready for use - considering b4 we went to Halfords for the whole journey (30 seconds!!) he didn't want one, couldn't shut him up, what a godsend they are, how we wouldn't be without mine....

Were sorted at last...x

Excellent, well done! I'd love to have seen his face when the sat nav told him he was doing 25 miles an hour :rotfl:

Did he apologise for the whole 'disability - are you sure you didn't do something to it?' outrage?

NickyBo_2

Sugarspun - that is a gorgeous little girl you have there, what a sweetie. How old is she now?

My boy has just turned 2 years old and we are going to try for our second baby later this year. We're hopefully going to France in August so sometime after that

elyphant

sugarspun - gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous and I noted the little Christmassy outfit, very nice!!

spendless - what a day! hope you managed to get a little bit of relaxation in the evening. my last day of work before xmas my parents had had the boys, and when i went to collect them, step-DS had been sick. So all the way home in the car with a bowl, stop off half way home for him to be sick out the car door (nice), and when we get home I got the other 2 DSs to wait in the car while I took step-DS in. Went back to get other 2 out of car (can't open doors themselves cos of child lock) and DS1 had been violently sick everywhere! Poor lad - he said 'sorry mummy I missed but it was coming out of my nose and everything':eek::eek: (not sure what he had missed but I decided not to explore that one...

mum2one - can I join the coppers challenge please? Will also put in my 5ps as they are just so tiny they annoy me! Would love to also do the ebay challenge but have never done it before, so will see if I get chance to look at the guide on here and figure it out. Signed up to dooyoo and my name is elyphant on there too - could you add me to the list? Have not done anything yet, but will do over next few weeks.

Sorry for long post!

elyphant

PS - well done mum2one with your satnav. Will def come to you for advice next time I need to complain!:T

jamtart6

£39.93 for my sealed pot last year! Not as good as £200+ in 2008 but I didn't include notes this year. I've got them stashed elsewhere. Quite happy with that!

SugarSpun

NickyBo wrote: »

Sugarspun - that is a gorgeous little girl you have there, what a sweetie. How old is she now?

She's just 5 months old now
Currently sitting on my knee singing to me and pesting about with the mouse :rotfl:

foxy219

Phew - I can't believe it is the 6th January and we are already on page 23! I have only read the first and last pages, so will catch up later
Mum 2 one, was so pleased I found the thread for 2009, my DD has already had her monies worth out of her main Christmas present - a baby Annabel which she never puts down, we are constantly dressing and undressing her and feeding her. I bought her with a load of clothes and a carrycot from our local flea market for £4!!! Yes there are bargains to be had!
I started my Christmas shopping for 2010 on Boxing Day, bought some nice bits from Boots at ½price, but will also be checking out the 75% sale to see what other lovely goodies there are.

December 2009 ended up being a bit of a nightmare, I was poorly for most of it so the wrapping ended up being done by my OH bless him and I was so glad to have nearly 2 weeks off to catch up on my sleep, my head finally feels as though it belongs to me again lol...

OH has also decided we are doing a £10 a week challenge which means we will have £500 (each) by the end of the year, I am also starting a £1 a day challenge and have my sealed pot in which I put 10p and 20p pieces, I got £60 last year which wasn't too bad seeing as I didn't start till May so hoping for at least £100 this year. I have to keep this one quiet tho or OH will try dipping in it for change for work.

Well that is me updated for now. Add my name to the list again Mum 2 One and keep up the good work!
:T

Spendless

sarahf191979 wrote: »

Ohhh Spendless, What a day you had, hope today is better for you, although I must admit I'm glad I'm not the only one who has days like this, I have at least 1 a week;) sometimes more:o

A bit better, though I was woken this morning by a phone call from foot clinic cancelling appt due to snow ..so panic about nothing, though am relieved to get shoes back. Hubby's Uncle called and asked if I wanted anything from shop..so didn't have to drag kids out with me (schools are closed) and later kids went to play in snow with friends on a sledge and to make a 'snow brick wall' cos the deep plastic container that you get tomatoes or fruit in are ideal for making 'snow bricks'.
I let my 'thinks sleep is optional' son stay up very late last night purely so I could have some free time without them this morning.:D

Hubby still working in Midlands and will come home at 'some point' :rolleyes:and tree still up though so can't have everything.:rotfl:

shelovestobuystuff

I have decided to try to put £20 a week away for christmas or allow myself to spend equivalent of £20 a week on pressies in the sales.Aiming for cash netral christmas again this year so although I am spending now I will get that money back through ebay,quidco etc.
Ebay sales last week total £38
so far this week I have sold a christmas bauble,in January?(I relisted everything unsold from before christmas and didnt mean to relist this just now)it sold for over £10?Oh well,I dont understand it but its all for the christmas fund so I shouldnt worry about the sanity of the buyer really.

Got quite a bit today.went sale shopping today and found I had left it too late to get any of the grey bear stuff from WHSmiths,they were all sold out already.But I did get some princess fairy stuff to put away for xmas.
So in WHSmiths I bought this lot of princess fairy bits for DD,
decorate your own jewellery box was £8.99 cost me £2
secret journal and majic pen was £6.99 now £2
create your own sticker scene was £2.99 now 49p
box of 6 make and paint glitter fairies was £8.99 now £2

for SIL some of the black rosella range gifts
sewing kit bag was £8.99 for £2
memo block was £7.99 for £2
luxury purse set was £9.99 for £2
small photo album was £6.99 for £2
journal set was £9.99 for £2 its 5 little books in a sleeve,address,birthday,diary,journal and notebook.I will have to remove the 2010 diary and use that myself as it will be no use by xmas but I can repackage the remaining 4 books and tie with a bow.
luxury mug was £7.99 for £2,plan on filling this with cherry liquers

my M&S sale buys arrived today so I have 6 pairs of lovely pink and grey fairisle slipper socks which I paid £2 each for to put away for xmas pressies ,originally £7 a pair

I also went a bit OTT in claire's accessories
silver star and black bow cosmetic bag was £6.95 for £2
biker tattoos was £3.50 for £1
jewelled dragonfly nail stickers was £3 for £1
set of 10 pink bracelets was £3.50 for £1
set of 10 sparkly bangles was £7 for £2
set of 2 satin hair slides,teeal & black was £3.50 for £1
set of 6 satin bow hairslides pink,pink tartan,black was £4.50 for £2
wide hairband black and white polkadot was £3.50 for £1
wide hairband teal satin bow was £3.50 for £1
extra wide fabric hairband red tartan was £4.50 for £2
purple big bow hairband was £3.50 for £1
pink satin bow hairband was £2.50 for £1
purple small bow hairband was £2.50 for £1
pink cord applique flower hairband was £3 for £1

and the sales assistant mentioned they would be doing their famous sale lucky bags again this year,starting them within the next week she said.So watch out for those.

Winter_Jasmine

Hello all, hope you're all warm and snuggly!

mum2one - well done, so glad you got your result!

shelovestobuystuff - sounds like some fab bargains, will hopefully be some left for my official day off on Friday (off today cos of snow and ice but stuck at home )

Had a nightmare trying to get home yesterday - took me almost six hours to do a 45 minute journey :eek: Was very scary and slippy but both me and OH made it home safe (took him 4 hours to do 10 miles) so very, very glad about that - I was really calm driving (not like me) but shook like a leaf as soon as I got out of the car - I'd needed the loo since I left work too so especially glad that I made it home in that sense :rotfl:.

My friend had to get towed part of the way home by a tractor - lovely how people help each other out when things get tough :beer:

Lady whose husband's away (sorry remembered your name til I started typing this sentence!) really hope he gets home safe and soon xx