❄❄ Let It Snow ❄❄ :: Christmas 2012 Chatter Thread

p-pincher

hamish222 wrote: »

Boots 3 for 2 is online. I am now officially on xmas countdown

Thanks for that!!!!! The only problem is im now going to loose hours to it. Just found Pinterest as well so to be honest everyones gonna be lucky to get dinner tonight xx

On the subject of budgets we have 2 dd's 8 and 6. I spend up to £200 each but to be honest ive never spent up to it. I include in this all toys, dvds, new pj's and slippers and at least 1 new outfit for boxing day. Apart from birthdays the kids dont really get bought toys at any other time. Everything is bought on offer (boots and argos 3 4 2). I dont think last year i paid full price for anything. For example im waiting for £65 topcashback payment which i'll have in amazon vouchers to get the extra 5% and this will get all the Dvd's.

Just been to a massive poundland and they did not have one christmas thing, so dissapointing!!!!!!!

chirpychick

Reformedshopaholic and opee92

This is exactly what we were like 2-3 years ago. I think we've all been there!

I'm worse, I like to buy 1 main present and a few little ones but my DH would quite happily go into poundland and spend £100 so it looks more lol!

This year our budget was £35 on each other and TBH was unrealistic.
At the moment I've spent £42 but some of that has been using eBay money or survey money.
I have said I'm done but the truth is that if I see something I really think he will love or the blinking mug I've been keeping my eyes open for I do have an £8 "buffer". So I've decided next year £50 is a better budget, it doesn't go far! Our spreadsheet is already set up to account for it monthly.

We didn't have any money to shop in the sales last year and I know that we will likely get a bit of money off our parents this year but I'm trying to put just a little aside so we have a bit. Then we will go shopping somewhere big and different for a day out between Christmas and new year.

I still find it hard sticking to a tight Christmas budget, but I really try hard to instead make it a lovely fun MONTH lol and it usually is regardless of money and presents

toffeeapple

Please can I join in too as I am getting very excited now and nobody I know will let me talk about xmas yet!!!

Dont forget if you get excited on the 3 for 2 on boots.com and you spend over £100 you can get an additional £15 off with code VCPPCS15.

HTH

96 days to go....

SugarSpun

My daughter's fourth Christmas is coming up. The first year she received a Santa outfit and a Learn and Groove activity station (she was five months old and the L&G was a fiver from ebay). €10 well spent.

The second year I spent €50, but it was all in Amazon vouchers from TCB so no actual cash. She had seven gifts including the one from my parents and opened one every day from Christmas Day to New Years Day. The biggest expense was €29 on a set of wooden musical instruments that she still loves now.

Last year was the first in our new house. I spent €60 in total but had been buying loads of Happyland on ebay local to my parents in the UK and having them collect it, the HL stuff came to £35 total and filled two HUGE boxes, I should have stopped with that and saved the rest of the money Again, though, it was all money neutral using vouchers and money made back from ebay sales.

This year she has a fair few small stocking and other wrapped gifts for a total of €30, plus an Ikea kitchen that I bought awhile back using an offer they had (spend over €150 and get 10% of your purchase back as a gift voucher). We were moving house and needed new furniture, so I bought a €1500 voucher using the moving money (we were going to need to spend that anyway) and bought the Duktig toy kitchen and went up to €150 with accessories so I didn't spend anything above the bonus voucher. This is the first year she is already excited about Christmas and I would like it to be memorable

I already have her birthday gift for next year, Mothercare were selling a dollshouse for £15 from £100 and I bought press-out wooden furniture for it from Amazon for £7 using vouchers.

ellie9ellie

Hi

Does anyone know when the Boots Christmas Book is due out - that really does mean the start of Xmas xx :j

LalaGomay

Not sure if anyone else does the little Christmas villages, like this...



But http://www.christmasatdawsons.co.uk/ have got a 15% off sale until Monday (code: 2012 at checkout), on top of their current sale.

I just went on a small buying frenzy and got loads of stuff. Arg. But I did save some money, so yay!

Can't wait to put mine together this year.

mrsgreenwood_2

also have some here http://www.dragonalley.co.uk/acatalog/copy_of_Department_56_Village.html

i like the idea of doing this aswell but dont know where id put them?

Possession

I love those Christmas villages, and I have just the place to put them but sadly not the money to buy them! Maybe one day.

LalaGomay

I think I'm going to put mine on the dresser. Some people put them along the top of their fireplace, or even down the centre of the dinner table, which I rather like the idea of!

ellie9ellie

Just saw dropsofjupiter's reply above so roll on 3 October 2012 - also my DD's birthday x