Old style Preparations for Christmas 2010!!

jollymummy

Ooooo this is an inspiring thread I've decided as well as jam and marmalade I'm going to have a go at flavoured vodka too.
Not sure how old style this is but I've saved £40 of amazon vouchers from doing online surveys, this will pay for pressies for DS. We usually take him on a santa express train for Christmas but this year we are taking him and his little cousin to Winter Thomasland, we bought the tickets with Tesco vouchers - he can't wait So cheapo treats!!!

For DH I'm going to go to B & M Stores and buy some bottle of real ale, buy bags of peanuts and crisps and a pint glass and make a Dad Christmas survival kit for him

elf06

greent wrote: »

Girly pamper baskets NEED chocolate or something else yummy. :Dose turkish delight would work. Thorntons doa mini bar of dark choc for 69p in a pink wrapper.. http://www.thorntons.co.uk/ThorntonsSite/product/5for3MiniBlocks/2568.htm

Ooooooor you could be even cheaper and make baileys truffles?? I made some this morning as an experiment and they are a deffinate success

Sorry for hi-jacking the thread - never posted on this one before but just came in for a nosey and I am LOVING your ideas!!

esmf73

Fantastic shopping in Asda today - got some back to school things, some christmas presents and some beer for a party we're invited to on Monday AND 90% of the shopping for September for under £250. Best of all, I managed to get a Christmas present for OH who is difficult to buy for so I was very pleased indeed.

Next time I must remember to buy a takeaway / instant pizza or something for saturday night tea!! Will start wrapping when the boys go back to school - just so that I know where I am with things and don't end up buying things for people twice!!

Lindy_-_Loo

Just got my christmas savings today - £300, so christmas will officially begin!

Have bought some bits, but that amount will be doing everyone as nothing is going on credit cards. hoping wilkinsons get some dove tuff either half price or BOGOF so can start neices hampers - an idea I borrowed from here!!!

Christmas is at home with my sis, mum and two grown up neices at 4.30pm for tea. first christmas without Dad and he and mum always had family round for lunch - so this year a new tradition begins with Dad in mind OH is going to try and recreate his sprouts, bacon and i think it was spring onion!

TeegansNan

You may have to be a proficient knitter to do this - but it's an idea that someone may like!
http://www.favecrafts.com/Christmas-Crafts/Knit-Dog-Coat-from-Patons

There are some other good ideas on this site also.

Enjoy!:rudolf:

Pink.

For those of you who are putting together hampers for Christmas, this thread from the Christmas and Special Occasions board has lots of links with great ideas:

The Gift Basket and Hampers Index

Pink

mummyslittleboy

Thanks Pink winged for the link I have found the ideal hamper to make my grandad I am going to make him a WW2 hamper which will include 2 cd's one of them vera lynn not sure about the other one yet, a ration book and an id card all will be in a shoe box wrapped in hhmm not sure maybe brown paper any other ideas anyone ? was thinking maybe some sweets. Have bid on a ration book on ebay:T

ERICS_MUM

mummyslittleboy wrote: »

Thanks Pink winged for the link I have found the ideal hamper to make my grandad I am going to make him a WW2 hamper which will include 2 cd's one of them vera lynn not sure about the other one yet, a ration book and an id card all will be in a shoe box wrapped in hhmm not sure maybe brown paper any other ideas anyone ? was thinking maybe some sweets. Have bid on a ration book on ebay:T

What about a Glenn Miller cd ? You could wrap it in brown paper and string, and a label like they used on gas mask boxes and kids being evacuated (I've seen them on internet sites about WW2). It's such a lovely thoughtful idea, I'm sure he'll love it.

Linda xx

ERICS_MUM

ERICS_MUM wrote: »

What about a Glenn Miller cd ? You could wrap it in brown paper and string, and a label like they used on gas mask boxes and kids being evacuated (I've seen them on internet sites about WW2). It's such a lovely thoughtful idea, I'm sure he'll love it.

Linda xx

PS just found this about sweets:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/5/newsid_2737000/2737731.stm

this is the label I was on about:

welshcamper

hello all, what a wonderful thread, i love christmas but worry abut buying everything, so many good ideas on here!

i love this idea and am planning on doing it for the men in the family:

For DH I'm going to go to B & M Stores and buy some bottle of real ale, buy bags of peanuts and crisps and a pint glass and make a Dad Christmas survival kit for him [/QUOTE]

(sorry,cant seem to grt this "quote" thing right)