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

susan42

ddraig- lol about postie, my OH retired last year and everytime the postie brings a parcel, which is a couple of times a week, he goes on and on and if we`re out and we get a red card ....moan.....:mad: like i said to him, are you paying?

findingmyfeet - please keep posting, all of us are friendly, sometimes disputes kick off, but it is our 1st. and last

if my pennies were pounds - I`m a nut job too, if yoiu could post a countdown everyday it would be ace lol

cdsmiler - love the bracelet, i love memory wire so easy to work with , well done

pinkflop - ty for posting bargains, i`m off to MS see if i can get some today

sugarspun = hope you have some great "makes" now you`re off for xmas

fedupand skint - i can sympathise with you and the chocolate, hope things pick up for you soon...ps do you fancy sharing - i`m a chocoholic

mum2one - chin up, i suggest we all carry on as normal(if thats the right word) for us and any more posts with reference to the "issue" ignore and pretend it never happened. Lets keep this thread going as strongly as before, you made this work , you and miss hoodie, when all the others dropped out (which is their choice) and its not about whos been here the longest, its not a competion, its about joining in and having fun. Thank you

pixie fairy dust - i found the easiest scarf to make was the pom pom wool scarf in a ball. I used one pair of needles and one ball of wool and it worked well, picture here

Other ideas:

Snowman soup
pots of gold
pint of socks
sock cakes
socktails
reindeer poop
flannel reindeers
mr & mrs reindeer
mr snowman
pot of snow
sweet cones

i`m sure there are loads more, i`m working my way through ideas, but havent had time to craft that much.

Legendmum

I second everything that Susan says!
Any way im here as I have to tell somebody about the FAB week I am having!!! Today I got a cheque in the post from HM Revenue as I overpaid tax in the year 2008/09 when DS was born! Only just in triple figues but I could have kissed the postie! Also had a voucher from John Frieda for a free colour foam product! Then yesterday I managed to get a maxi dress for 3p on Goddiva thanks to Grabbit, this morning it was Estee Lauder Mascara for 1p and several of my ASOS orders have been dispatched again thanks to Grabbit Board!
I am so happy I am smiling ear to ear and the OH doesnt really understand what I am going on about, except the cheque bit! I actually think I LOVE MSE!!!:iloveyou::heartpuls:heartpuls:heartpuls

rufusdog52

Well done Legendmum, I can feel the excitement reading your post lol xx

Well said Mum2one, lets hope we can carry on as we were as its very off putting having disagreements on here. I have been on here for a few years now and remember how you took over and carried on the challenges and think this thread is brilliant. Its something we all like to do everyday, check and see how everyone else is doing and helping each other out. I hope it doesnt put anyone off and we all stick together xx

Off to see ExMil this morning, she is in an old peoples home and they are having a Halloween do this lunch time, havent the foggiest idea what I am letting my self in for lol, but she didnt want to go down on her own so I offered to keep her company.

Mary - I too can go back to the old days, we never had any money when we were kids, my Mum used to make us things like a new special dress to wear Christmas day and some new pyjamas or night dresses, usually the fabric came from people down the road who were throwing things out and offered them to her to re use as they new she did sewing. Most of our toys were second hand too from neighbours and family with older children. I remember one year I got a lovely record player, it was really nice, red and white case like a mini suitcase. I loved it to bits, only had singles to play on it but still loved it. Remember after about a year the white outside started to peel off and saw under neath it was green and white and had my brothers writing all over it. He is 6 years older than me and I hadnt realised all this time that it was his old record player and my Mum had just covered it with sticky back plastic to make it look new lol.

If my Mum was still around she would have loved this thread to bits as she was full of ideas for recycling old things to make lovely presents.

Anyway, better get dressed and sorted ready to go and face the ghouls lol. Rufus xx

esmer

susan42 wrote: »

pixie fairy dust - i found the easiest scarf to make was the pom pom wool scarf in a ball. I used one pair of needles and one ball of wool and it worked well, picture here

Love this scarf, where do you get the wool? is it cheap?

susan42 wrote: »

Other ideas:
pint of socks - Is this socks in a pint tumbler?
sock cakes - socks made into a cake?
socktails - Whats this?
reindeer poop - seen this in flylady
flannel reindeers - seen these and the doggie ones
mr & mrs reindeer - whats this?
mr snowman - and this?
pot of snow - and this?
sweet cones - can guess what this is

Thanks :T

susan42

Hi esmer, I got the wool here I dont know if its available anywhere else, but I live near to the store

Hope this helps

good luck with your halloween party rufus dog , should be a good laugh with the wrinklies

legendmum, good week your having, quick buy a lottery ticket, you never know , and what lovely surprises when you dont expect them xx

elysia2003

Susan - Wrinklies!!!! You'll be old one day. :rotfl:

DDraig - My OH is our postie, he's started dreading coming home. :eek: We are halfway round on his walk, so he tends to leave our post in the boot of the car, as there's too much for him to carry.

Legendmum - I'm having a good week too. I used three £5 debenhams vouchers. Mine, OH, and DD1's email address's. Then I only did 1 Asos (not being greedy - did you hear about the one person who used the £10 off voucher 80 times? I also won £20 on the walkers rainy day thing. I bought DD a toy in sainsburys - It must have already been reduced and then half price so it cost £12.50 instead of £35. Woohoo.

All my bits and peices have come today off ebay, so I can start bagging reindeer poop and everything. Mary your magnetic tape came too. Can you pm me your address again, as when I used it before I deleted it afterwards (for security).

Clare you have a new stalker!

JJ - I hope you feel better soon.

Mum2one - enjoy the rest of the week. I hope the weather is kind to you.

Rufus - well done on being so organised.

Sorry to anyone else I've missed. I really must start taking notes.


Thanks Rusty for telling me the ebay seller was still working. I'll order them now while I think of it. ETA. nope listing is still not working! I'll have to wait until they get back.

rufusdog52

Well survived the Halloween party lol, they had a raffle and ExMil won two times so she was happy. They have asked me to come to their Christmas dinner now lol. Will have to have a brighter light near my mirror to check the wrinkles lol.

Typical, a parcel came while I was out. Have been online and asked them to redeliver it on Monday. Hoping it is my Half Cost order. Only had email yesterday saying despached so really quick if it is.

elysia2003

I bought some edible glitter for the reindeer food. I chose white hologram, but as it's very fine it doesn't sparkle much. One the other crafting for Christmas thread someone mentioned, as an alternative to flavoured vodka, they added edible glitter to make a vodka snowglobe! I think I'll do that for DD1, I have some vodka the wrinklie (lol) next door gave us last christmas (what he didn't want). It sounds fun!

mrsow

Hi everyone, Im trying to catch up whilst visiting the parents as laptop finally gave up last week. Everyone seems to have been really busy xx

Thanks mum2one and miss hoodie for the challenge Im off to copy it out in a minute.

Christmas wise hmmm what have I done ................. Ive watched Christmas with the Kranks and Fred Claus - does that count.

I really need to get cracking with my calendars and decorated notepads, I also need to make a few more cards too.

Hoping to go to Hartlepool at the weekend to do a bit Christmas shopping with my dad (nightmare!!!!) I only need little bits so shouldnt be too bad.

rufus glad you enjoyed the halloween party, strange coincidence my halfcost order has just arrived!

Going to see if i can keep up to date by reading this thread on the Wii as Ive got millions of pages to read!!!!!

Have a great day everyone!

Lisa
xx

knithappens

ooh in homebargains today and they had first aid tins, I bought 3, or my teacher friends, one i am going to pack with chocolate, one with a beer and some paracetamol, and the other with minature wines, haha, the tins were 99p and depedning on who you are giving them to can be packed with all sorts of stuff, like pamper bits etc. I am going to write on the tag - in case of emergency ha ha