Please post all Christmas freebies here

rchddap1

Early my bottom. Started working on Xmas 2006 as soon as Xmas 2005 was over. Doing things little by little means when it comes to the actual event you spend more time having fun and less time running round doing a good impression of a fly with a blue rear.

helenstuff

Are you all doing the world cup predictor game on CDwow? I know nothing about football but you just predict the scores of upcoming games (all dead easy drop-down menus) and I've already accumulated a load of £2 vouchers (you also get £1 or 50p vouchers for being less accurate). They expire end of November so good timing for Christmas. You can only use one per transaction, but if you can combine it with a sale, you may get some real bargains!

loopylass30

Thansk helenstuff ill give it a go :T

Logovo69

Too Early? OMG, I've already got most gifts for Christmas and all the wrappings, tags and cards too! Okay, I may be a boring old f...emale(!!), but I have quite a big family and money is really tight so I take advantage of all the offers as and when.

I keep a look out for clearance sales and special offers and buy some really lovely gifts as I see them, not just for Christmas, but birthdays etc too. I get quality things for a fraction of the price and my family always say I give them such lovely and thoughtful gifts!!

Not free, but I buy lots of quality, pretty, but really cheap wrapping, tags, ribbons and bows from Studio cards http://www.24studio.co.uk who often have lots of bargains.

Homemade and thoughtful gifts like Princess Cinderella suggested are a great idea too!

Well done now a mum&skint for being organised! It makes Christmas so much less stressful and busy mums needs as much help as they can get!

Suzyxx

Wolverine

Logovo69 wrote:

Too Early? OMG, I've already got most gifts for Christmas and all the wrappings, tags and cards too!

That shows a good parent lol but :T but what if/when your kids change their mind about what they want?? I'm a teen and I buy christmas presents for relatives in November, latest you can go b4 the crowds appear...

code-a-holic

You can never be too organised for christms!
Me and my husband love christmas - unlike the rest of the family, who dont seem so fussed. probably becasue we are relatively new to organising christmases (3 under 4's so thrown in to big christmases!) Last year i felt very organised and did it on the cheap yet everyone seemed impressed with their gifts. I plan to do better this year. Already have a box full in the attic from the january sales.
One gift idea which went down very well with grannies last year. I found some lovely pine frames with spaces for 3 photos. I bathed the kids and took photos of them while looking clean (no one ever see's them clean and glossy!) Thanks to truprint, the photos were free to be developed and the frames £4 each from the market! And the biggets smiles on my grans i had ever seen!

rchddap1

I use to do the same thing when I was younger. And I got accused of being far too organised. However, eventually you learn that there are always certain items that are always appreciated. So if I see them cheap I now buy them early and sling them in a box ready. As you get older you end up with a huge list of people that you need to buy for.

That leaves 2 choices....get stuff when you can throughout the year....or get stressed out in November and December.

smartiepants

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: I really can't believe I even started reading this thread:eek: I think I thought it was going to be some kind of joke, Christmas already, Noooooooooooo!!!!!!! not for me.
xxxx
Good job we are all different!! :T

freebie_junkie

where can you get free kids books with the £1 quickreads vouchers please? and what are the called/look like? thanks very much

loopylass30

You cant freebiejunjkie, the quickreads vouchers are for adult books and the vouchers gives you £1 off a certain selection