Christmas 2010 Let's Get Organised

tiff

Youre doing great loupoppins!

I am not so organised but can join this thread now. I bought 2 packs of Christmas cards from Age Concern for 50p each and ordered 2 digital coin counting money jars mentioned on the grabbit forum, were £15 reduced to £5.04 on Amazon with free delivery. Will give those to my kids maybe for their birthdays, we shall see. Thats my first bits for 2010.

Its my Mums birthday at the end of Feb so need to sort something out for her and as usual have no idea what to get. She does collect glass paper weights so will have a look round for one as part of her present.

I started a standing order to start saving for Christmas, which has just gone into the saving account, thats a back up as I will need to leave my kids presents till a bit nearer the time when I find out what they want.

Just hope I can keep this up throughout the year!

hart44

I have a lots of idea's for gifts but just need to get my finger out and start making them lol.

Some stuff stashed away for xmas but mostly for my 4yr old GDas she is so easy to buy for. I picked up a fab pink car for her Barbie's out of a charity shop for £2.49 the other day, it has working lights, mobile phone and radio that plays music, I was well please and so will she be .

I have got £400 love to shop vouchers + £80 Amazon vouchers being paid for wkly through Park hampers so Im speading cost of xmas, I had £200 vouchers last yr.

My 2 eldest son's will get the Amazon vouchers as they are a nightmare to buy for

hart44

hart44 wrote: »

If anyone wants the spreadsheet to help organize your christmas gifts brought in the run-up to the big day I have it

I can post you a link if you would like to p.m. me I can send it

Thank you to my wonderful computer geek OH :rotfl:

Just wanted to say abig sorry to everyone who asked me for the spreadsheet, if it's not working email me again, I forgot to attatch it to your email (doppy nut).

I think I must have been having an off day (night)

So if anyone still wants one I have got my head sorted now :rotfl:

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Hey guys if you want to pm me the spread sheet linke I'll edit the first post and put it in there!
Doing quite well at the moment been getting few nice bits n bobs from dreggs of the sales!

tiff

Thanks for the spreadsheet, gonna get organised now and fill it in.

Diane1961_2

I'm so on it, I'm nearly embarrassed. All in the sales. All at least 50% off. Complete with spreadsheet showing events for 2010 with names and description of gift. 38 out of 44 (6 children and partners, 7 grandchildren, parents, friends, Valentines, Mother's Day, etc)
I've been so inspired since I've joined MSE, I'm micromanaging every penny and opportunity!! I wished I'd had this support when I was in debt and mega skint!

tiff

I've just requested a £10 Amazon voucher from Valued Opinions and was expecting 500 points from Lightspeed, checked today and there was 1500 plus what I already had in there, so requested a £15 Amazon voucher from them. I am going to save these up to use for Birthdays and Christmas but hoping to get the bargains to make the money go further.

sukysue

Been busy in work or would have been in earlier, bought 2 sets of juicy couture from asos for dds for christmas in the clearance they were still very pricy but they really love it and it worked out at half price and haven't seen it this cheap before.Also bought mum's presents for either mother's day or xmas a lovely cardy and jumper over half price off from m& s. Well that's me done reporting in for now I will return with more news I hope !

springerholic

I havent been on here for a while but have managed to get a couple of bargains to stash from the Tesco toy sale, have had to pay £6.85 postage to make sure Im here when it arrives but worth it for the presents Ive managed to get. My son is going to love this... http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.206-7557.aspx

Wendy5704

I managed to pick up some goody bags from Claire's accessories. 10 sale items for £3.00. It was quite good as there was only 2 rubbish items in it but got earings, hair bands and jewellery. They will be great in my nieces hampers.