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Finished baskets!!
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quite normal for regulars on this thread! I think it's been a week for me since I did a basket.... Planning to do some journal in jars first though. Bought 2 square writing books yesterday for niece and DD (£1 each Asda) to use as a base. Also got 4 multi coloured (4 colours per pen) pens for £1 at Asda - lilac, orange, pink and green. Planning to split them up and give 2 each for journal....threelittlepigs wrote: »is this normal
everytime i go somewhere i look at things and think that will do for my hampers :rotfl:
I got given some lovely red circular boxes that stack inside each other with cream hearts on the top that someone said I could use for hampers:j Also MIL gave me a big bodyshop bag which will look lovely with hamper style pressies in as it is the size of a quite large shopping bag in nice colours of turquoise and red. I also have quite a few other boxes left.... so trying hard not to be tempted at Morrisons etc by their deals until I have at least used what I've got already.....!:DAchieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £171.8K Equity 36.37%
2) £2.6K Net savings after CCs 10/10/25
3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £27.9K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.25K) = 34/£127.5K target 26.6% 10/10/25
(If took bigger lump sum = 60.35K or 47.6%)
4) FI Age 60 income target £17.1/30K 57% (if mortgage and debts repaid - need more otherwise) (If bigger lump sum £15.8/30K 52.67%)
5) SIPP £5K updated 10/10/250 -
here you go my very first basket
i used 2 semi circular hanging baskets for the basket as i already had these in my shed and used hanging basket lining and tissue paper to bulk it out in it i put
12 types of seeds, which i put in to cellophane bags and used plant lables to label
3 types of bullbs
cup with flowers on witha matching china type spoon
gloves
fork
trowel
hand cream
garden candles
string
extra plant labels
2 fairy spike things
and a maze book with the instructions for the seeds
not great but ok for my first one
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Maria.. are you going to be as hooked as the rest of us now! Looks lovely....Achieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £171.8K Equity 36.37%
2) £2.6K Net savings after CCs 10/10/25
3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £27.9K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.25K) = 34/£127.5K target 26.6% 10/10/25
(If took bigger lump sum = 60.35K or 47.6%)
4) FI Age 60 income target £17.1/30K 57% (if mortgage and debts repaid - need more otherwise) (If bigger lump sum £15.8/30K 52.67%)
5) SIPP £5K updated 10/10/250 -
Looks fab Maria, well done you :T Bet you loved putting it together didn't you?:wave: If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain :wave:0
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Cookie the snowed in hamper sounds fabulous - love the boxes.
Maria, garden hamper looks fantastic, I was reading your list, you've put some brilliant items in it.
bunbun, loving that Harry Potter hamper such a novel idea - but oh you've been and done it now. I'm craving a magic elves bar (have you tasted them? Yummy) My doctor won't like it but if I can find one tomorrow I'm eating it!:p0 -
threelittlepigs wrote: »is this normal
everytime i go somewhere i look at things and think that will do for my hampers :rotfl:
:rotfl: nice to know there's someone as mad as me out there, no offence! :rotfl::wave: If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain :wave:0 -
Maria - fab basket and great contents :T
Are those the gloves with the pink and blue flowers on? If so they are a very pretty pattern.
Thanks for posting pic
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i am obsessed now, going to get more ribbon and cellophane tommorrow as i have 2 more ready to be wrapped and put together not in that order though
the gloves are pink and blue my mum is obsessed with pink, on the front of my maze book i put a picture of my mums garden from the house we lived in when we was growing up as she sold it to go and live by the seaside, but misses having a big garden so much,
i have also made her a journal in a jar, done the free name a star and done her a survival kit, mum is really the only person i know who apprechiates home made things so she is getting them all
thanks for all the lovely comments13 in 2013 challenge 9/130 -
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Cookie, that doesn't sound rubbish at all! I'd love something interesting like that for Xmas
Love your boxes! Are they both the same size?
yes they are both the same size. They came in different patterns too.Debt free wannabe
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