Please post all Christmas freebies here

deefin

ive had quite a few bits from swapit shop for my lil girls x mas ,. some great stuff on there ,,

V_Chic_Chick

I thought you guys might like to know that they are doing signs in The Works which are all Christmassey with things like Santa, Rudolf and Snowmen, and say things such as Merry Christmas and Welcome and Snowman this way on.

The large (appx. 60cm) are £1.25 and the small (appx. 40cm) are 75p.

I got a large one, and come Christmas it will go outside the chicken coop along with the fairy lights run off a car battery for the coop decorating contest on another board I go on :T

lil_me

I've only bought a couple of things, suprisingly from Boots, managed to get a Micro Scalectrix set for my son for £12.00 instead of £60 Have a local Avon rep and been buying small gifts from the sale section in there put away also handy if a birthday sneeks up on my that I have forgot about.

My fave Xmas freebies are my advantage card ones, usually gets a special relative a bottle of perfume, last year I had £70 in points to use so even bought myself one.

Fingers crossed this year I'll have my pigsback for vouchers aswell.

A cheap one I do every year is buy one of the kids school photos, scan and print them (some canvas and some glossy depend what relative prefers) and frame to match the decor of the relatives home (usually from Wilkos as they are cheap) all of them look forward to the new photos

ajay22

i know this is not a freebie but if you go to https://www.nurseryandtoys.com they are currently having a sale.Lots of little tykes toys at half price and i got a smoby baby mobile push along car for £15.00.i have already bought lots of christmas presents from this site,they really are good value for moneY!!!(apologies if i have posted this in the wrong place.

jennalicious

now_a_mum&skint wrote:

P.S have put away my free Gillette razor for part of my Dad's pressie xx

I have my free Gillette razor put away too and am gonna get some blades to go with it from my Boots vouchers from pigsback. Last year I made my mum and my aunt some garlic and rosemary oil. I got some coloured bottles cheap at the market, slightly bash the garlic and rosemary to release the flavour, pop in the bottle, fill with oil and pop in the cork. Also, little homemade truffles always go down well with my family. I know these aren't exactly free because you have to buy the ingredients but they cost a fraction of what you would pay in the shop. I also keep a couple of small shoe boxes which I decorate and fill with sweets instead of buying selection boxes.

Hope these ideas help.

now_a_mum&skint

Great, thanks for all suggestions, hope you keep them coming folks so we can all have a brilliant moneysaving crimbo!!!! xxxxx

hels102

The truffles sound a brilliant idea, how do you go about making them!

jennalicious

hels102 wrote:

The truffles sound a brilliant idea, how do you go about making them!

Chocolate Truffles

150g/5oz quality chocolate, preferably 70% or more cocoa solid content
150g/5oz ground almonds
2 tbsp double cream
75g/3oz caster sugar
1 tbsp rum (optional)
cocoa powder, icing sugar or crushed nuts for rolling the truffles

1. Place a saucepan of water on to boil. Break the chocolate into a heat proof bowl which should be big enough to sit and rest on the rim of the saucepan.
2. When the water boils remove the pan from the heat and then set the bowl of chocolate in the pan until the chocolate has melted.
3. Remove the bowl from the pan and stir in the ground almonds, cream, sugar and rum. Mix to a firm paste.
4. Work quickly, preferably with cool hands and roll the paste into small balls and then toss in the cocoa powder, icing sugar or nuts.

This makes about 12 or 15, I put them in little petite four cases and pop them in little boxes. They keep about a week.

Lola23

I just love Christmas.

Got paper and cards in, and saving my Boots points (comes in handy for buying pressie for work lucky dip) + should have quite a few points this year.

Nectar points should be building up nicely too which will help with the festive shop.

Having to work Christmas Day this year.....boo hoo.

now_a_mum&skint

I agree, Christmas is great....if youre not stressed out like I normally am, am determined to enjoy it this year though.

Jennalicious, thanks so much for the truffle recipe, Im gonna try them out, and start collecting wee jar/gift boxes to put them in xxx excellent post hun xx