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

Winter_Jasmine

junior_j wrote: »

:beer:Hello everyone

Snow was very bad here (9inches) so i could not go to work (11miles away) but turns out the girls went in (we work in a nursery) and got sent home at 1pm as the kids parents started to come very early (panicking) that they wouldn't be able to pick them up later due to snow.

Hoping to go into work tomorrow , no work = no pay LOL.

Money is very short this month and due to be short next month (no more overtime as we are over staffed at work) so bit of a bummer.

I have a horrid cold which tonight has started annoying my asthma. I have been waking myself up in the night to drink water because my lips keep drying out and splitting quite badly despite good old vasilene lol. xx

Poor you hon - bit rotten of your bosses not to pay you or at least let you have a days holiday. Hope you're feeling better soon, I haven't had a bad cold for ages so know I'm due one - at least the weekends coming, will you get a chance to rest up?

elysia2003

junior_j wrote: »

:beer:Hello everyone

Snow was very bad here (9inches) so i could not go to work (11miles away) but turns out the girls went in (we work in a nursery) and got sent home at 1pm as the kids parents started to come very early (panicking) that they wouldn't be able to pick them up later due to snow.

Hoping to go into work tomorrow , no work = no pay LOL.

Money is very short this month and due to be short next month (no more overtime as we are over staffed at work) so bit of a bummer.

I have a horrid cold which tonight has started annoying my asthma. I have been waking myself up in the night to drink water because my lips keep drying out and splitting quite badly despite good old vasilene lol. xx

I hope you feel better very soon. Take care going to work won't you?

Kids back at school here tomorrow.

wendall

Thanks Liesauk for the code, got the Gaymers bucket, fosters bucket, carlsberg chair(bottle holder, and the smirnoff miniature and glass all delivered for £16.50. Well chuffed as i normally miss out.

junior_j

saffstar wrote: »

Poor you hon - bit rotten of your bosses not to pay you or at least let you have a days holiday. Hope you're feeling better soon, I haven't had a bad cold for ages so know I'm due one - at least the weekends coming, will you get a chance to rest up?

elysia2003 wrote: »

I hope you feel better very soon. Take care going to work won't you?

Kids back at school here tomorrow.

Thank you very much! xxxxxxxx

I know not my fault it snowed lol , then again guess it aint her fault , i might be wrong she may pay me , if i am lucky x

junior_j

By the way girls.. i am into ebay and have learnt to buy on there how exciting , brought a good bargain its from my mum and dad to my Godson for his birthday a lightening mqueen (from disney cars) photography set , comes with reuseable camera (mqueen) film (mqueen) and mqeen photo album all comes in a lovely disney cars box xxx 7.99 xx 1 pound pp

mum2one

Welsh_Poppy wrote: »

I have not bought anything in days but been snowed in:D....will have to make up for it soon.
Hubby flying in to gatwich today sometime so should be home by lunchtime tomorrow;) been away 3 months so we are having christmas on Sunday....just hope he gets home tomorrow:rolleyes::rolleyes:.
he uses wheelchair so doubly difficult with booked assistance on train so fingers crossed it goes well.
Phew no wonder i am in panic mode

Hope hubby gets home safely, bet it be great to have Christmas on Sunday, were doing New years day on sunday for dd...... only coz we were down in devon, she wanted a roast dinner and crackers....

You try and get your feet up for 5 mins, before all the darling " I've got a stain on the shirt, darling, did I not say it was all the shirts, that bolognese sauce kept dripping"...... won't go into smelly socks!! xx

mum2one

:Dapologies 1st, as I can't remember the lovely lady - who recommended Tesco.

Had a fun day (my poor mother), she was going to exercise / prevention clinic, - dropped dd at school, dropped mother, then up to Comet (brill got the refund), quick look round Boots, New Sat Nav from Halfords, quick flick to Sainsburys, hardly anything left in xmas sale, got dd a angel halo, couple bath confetti sets, then as I was being nice took dad to Mcdonalds for a coffee (very mse - used the stickie vouchers - free drinks), by then it was 11.45, thought we'd better get mother..... the centre had made a boob, she was booked in for the next course, was due to start in Feb, - she even rang up Mon afternoon to double check coz of the weather) she'd rang dads mobile (his was off), rang mine, (naughty me - forgot to take it off silent after being in Comet), she'd been waiting for us since 10.10am.......:rolleyes::D:rotfl:

That then turned into a trip to Tesco (wasn't sure on the weather - went the right day!!)
Got the last 2 mugs - still got the £3.87 price tag
Wack of gift tags - reduced 19p WTP and Hannah Montana (never have enough kids tags)
Wrapping paper - reduced to 24p roll
Parcel stickers - 19p
Mini gift bags - 11p
set of gift bags - 74p

Best :cool: picked up 2 sets of make ur own cards - came through till at £2.50, queried it, this stroppy supervisor (upset him once when I was auditing the store, he had to get the problem retified, brilliant, the power from an ID badge), and he was gone so just paid for the order. take them back to CS and return them.

he comes back and said there priced wrong - they should be £1.50, so all innoncently, I said, Oh I've paid for the shopping now didn't know how long you'd be, we'd better go to customer services, and refund there (my poor dad - he said your not complaining..... he had a gentle step on the toe "shut up".. course double refund, so got £4.00 back...

The weather been more snow, stay in, be flat on my rear otherwise, at least get my OU done.

I've finished knitting a matinee jacket, booties, bonnet and mitts in pale lilac, for dds ex nursery teacher, (the patterns older than me!!).

With the weather being forecast this bad..... be doing gift tags at the weekend, and help dd make up her Hannah Montana bag, and start planning Jans challenge........be prepared.... dd is helping me!!!! xx:cool:

xx

mum2one

NickyBo wrote: »

They sound like great bargains :T. I'm trying to remember if my closest pharmacy is a Lloyds, unfortunately I don't think it is.

if its any help, Lloyds do online ordering, got a wack of stuff last yr for dds party bags xx

junior_j

WOW mum2one you have been very busy!! Good bargains , i need to me more headstrong with situations like that!! xx just had a hot chocolate made by the tassimo (Which mum got half price just before Xmas x)

chillin_nutta

mum2one wrote: »

:Dapologies 1st, as I can't remember the lovely lady - who recommended Tesco.

xx

Glad you got lots of things in Tescos - what mugs did you get hon??? i'm so tempted to open my cappuccino mug mmmm but i'm going to leave it for now

I'm kinda wanting to get to the other 2 tescos in town and see what they have on sale... funny how they differ and they are only less than 5 mins away.

no bargains today, was busy doing some crafting today... made a nice little notelet box for my all year round recipe cards ( a whole different thread -sorry for going off track) and feeling really pleased with the lovely outcome albeit that I had to salvage it after making such a silly mistake on my lovely new piece of card....

Sounds like most of you found some fab bargains well done you

emmy xx