Finished baskets!!

savingholmes

Flannel yule log (flannels from instore 6 for 99p) is in a red circular box with some quality street (£2 box offer Tescos/Asda) which is underneath the other items in the hamper - approx £1 for this section.
Another circular box holds gel spray for hair and hair vitamin sachets, a manicure set £1 and a perfume sample (rest freebies collected over the year).
Also 2 bottles of blossom hill wine (part of the 4 for £5 Asda deal),
Wine glass (4 for 89p Asda) with gold coins (2 sets for 99p instore),
Pack of serviettes (£1 had),
Shortbread biscuits approx 25p part of pack of 4,
Shopaholic mug £2, with sock muffin (2 pairs approx 99p each)
Basket £1.49 - homebase
Flannel reindeer with soap inside (approx 50p)

Total cost approx £10-12

98jdougl

wow that looks great saving
got some of those expensive deisgner rubber duckies, bud or whatever they are (Cant b bothered checking) that average at £7.50 each for free (4 of them)

they were just chucking them away at OH's work, only thing wrong is on of the pplastic bubble windows (if that makes sense) on the box of one of them there is a slight dent and the other 3 are completely perfect
go me!

savingholmes

For my niece

Kittens/dog box from Asda approx £1.25 RRP £3
Kittens/dog a5 book approx £1.50
Princess pen approx 30p
Pink socks in pink ribboned jar topped with pink bow £1
Pink stationary set approx 50p
Play dough pink approx 50p
Pink sweets approx £1
Snowdome (make your own) £1 Home and Bargain

Approx £7-8

rainmac

lilmrsmullen - fab mugs, I'd love to get one of those for Xmas

Wow mary, I really need you to come help me when I shop, you've got some lovely sounding stuff and great bargains there, bet your boxes look fab :T

bec5670 - gorgoeus baskets, well done you

sugarhunny - I got a metal beer bucket from Home Bargains a couple of months ago for £2.99. Don't know if there are any left?

rainmac

Wow savingholmes, some great pressies there, I love the kitten box of goodies. Can't believe you got all that for £7-8, have you been having pressie buying lessons with mary???

mary43

saving holmes - brilliant hampers and so festive looking:T

rainmac - I'm just a compulsive 'charity shopper'.................lol (years of being hard up) Have been very careful this though and not just grabbed it because its there and its cheap. Trouble is, I want to keep half the stuff I get..................lol

savingholmes

rainmac wrote: »

Wow savingholmes, some great pressies there, I love the kitten box of goodies. Can't believe you got all that for £7-8, have you been having pressie buying lessons with mary???

It's called not being able to resist a bargain...:o The kitten stuff was in the Asda sale so may have even cost me less than that, the pink paperset was from a school Christmas fair, and the playdough was from a set of eggs I bought in Tesco at Easter!!!

My DS was able to go to a party today tho with a pressie no new spend - a Hannah Montanna File set that I bought for about £1.75 which was originally £5, a card making set I was given RRP £4 and a friendship bead set I'd picked up for £1. I felt slightly guilty when I bought them but more justified today! Sorry no piccie.

That would all be fine but with recent sales since my lbm I have accumulated another box and half of stuff having initially emptied my present boxes when I first started hamper making! It will come in handy, one day... I managed to get a little girl style money box from Asda recently for £2.25 which my DD has just painted to give my MIL for her birthday... The best bargains are available when you see them and it works out eventually honest - its MSE but not necessarily DFW if you know what I mean:o

Elmostreet

Lovely Baskets!

Millie2008_2

I have just done a hamper for boss for xmas- hamper in the loosest sense as it has no basket, or box

One of the blue and white rosanna tea pots from HBs, some fancy t-bags, also from HBs, that I re-packaged in cello bags, tied with curling ribbon and some lindor chocs packaged in same way- also HBs - all on top of Teapot box and wrapped in silver cello with a big silver bow. Total cost approx £3.50, but looks waaay more

Daft question, but does anyone worry that the people you are making the hampers for will see this thread and find out how much their fab hampers actually cost??

Kandipandi

Millie2008 wrote: »

I have just done a hamper for boss for xmas- hamper in the loosest sense as it has no basket, or box

One of the blue and white rosanna tea pots from HBs, some fancy t-bags, also from HBs, that I re-packaged in cello bags, tied with curling ribbon and some lindor chocs packaged in same way- also HBs - all on top of Teapot box and wrapped in silver cello with a big silver bow. Total cost approx £3.50, but looks waaay more

Daft question, but does anyone worry that the people you are making the hampers for will see this thread and find out how much their fab hampers actually cost??

Lol I had thought about that I told my friend about this thread and she is a lurker, I'm making her a hamper for her around her main gift but i cant post it here or she will see it! Even if i did she knows im a MSE'er and a MFW (aka. tight wad) and im sure she would be impressed at how little i have spent. She is saving for her first home so I am brainwashing her into our way of thinking