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Christmas Money Saving

Save £££££s this year. Buy your kids Euros instead of chocolate coins.

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  • Wife and I buying each other small token gift, then £100 each to spend in sales. When you're grown up does it matter if you get it Christmas Day or a few days later?
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    We're not having Christmas this year. Even cheaper!
  • Bah - Humbug !!!

    :p
  • chewmylegoff
    chewmylegoff Posts: 11,469 Forumite
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    Wife and I buying each other small token gift, then £100 each to spend in sales. When you're grown up does it matter if you get it Christmas Day or a few days later?

    That all deepens how high maintenance your mrs is. I have to produce a present as soon as she wakes up (5 euros this year, cheers generali), and then something "good" (by which I mean expensive) in the afternoon. There would be tears and a lot of sulking otherwise!
  • kabayiri
    kabayiri Posts: 22,740 Forumite
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    If you buy your Euro early and it all goes pear before Xmas, don't worry.

    You can always make a drachma out of a crisis. :D
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    I wouldn't even know how/where to buy a Euro.
  • mcc100
    mcc100 Posts: 624 Forumite
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    Wife and I buying each other small token gift, then £100 each to spend in sales. When you're grown up does it matter if you get it Christmas Day or a few days later?

    We used to do this but there is now no point as the sales started weeks ago ...... actually most shops seem to have a permanent sale these days.
  • tomterm8
    tomterm8 Posts: 5,892 Forumite
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    I wouldn't even know how/where to buy a Euro.

    Your local bank or post office.


    It strikes me that there has been substantial sweet price inflation in the UK in recent years: I remember when you could buy a packet of toffee and still have money for a 10p packet of space invaders if you were careful.
    “The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens
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