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

cornishorchid

So sorry to hear that roseygirl, I hope your family and friends will give you strength and help you through this difficult time xx

kayandy_2

Rosygirl sorry to hear about your mum! I'm sure when your up to it everyone on this thread will be happy to help in anyways we can!! Thinking of you!!

pinknfluffy28

sugaJen wrote: »

pinknfluffy28... I do agree with what others have said but as your stepdaughter is 15 I assume you wont have to put up with this for much longer. You say you can afford it so I would be tempted to just buy her the tv and get extras for the others (more shopping yay!!) Is the mother just wanting you to be the bad guys? It might be worth spending abit more to avoid the agro?

She sounds very bitter (and abit mad actually after 10 years) maybe you could arrange for her to go get a check up from the neck up!

ha ha this made me laugh, thankyou! shes a psycho, no other way to describe her really! yep, she is always trying to punish dh for leaving her 10 yr ago, and to make us out to be bad guys constantly! but sometimes its worked to our advantage, we have never lowered ourselves to her level and thats why my 15 yo step daughter texts both her dad and me every night to say she loves us, and why both girls are so very very close to us all, even though she still makes it difficult for them & us to actually spend much time together. Spoke to dh & he really wants to just get her the tv & avoid any further upset or agro (anything for an easy life!) & he agrees we should get the other 3 a few extra bits to make up for it, so like you said...more shopping, so not all bad!

pinknfluffy28

kayandy wrote: »

Pinknfluffy- sorry for your problem with oh ex I'm sure your step daughter wouldn't mind if it was explained to her though she sounds like she would understand from what you said!! Although if you do decide to get the tv I just seen this on the grab it board hope it helps

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4217821

thankyou xx

pinknfluffy28

rosygirl - sorry to hear of your very sad loss, thoughts are with you and your family

ive read a lot of posts about skittles vodka, tried this a couple of years ago and they were awful! however, last year i made black jack vodka, and fruit salad vodka, 2 of the chewy sweets popped into 3/4 bottle of vodka every week for 10 weeks OMG both were absoloutly amazing, the black jack was our favourite and im ashamed to say dh & i got throught the whole bottle in 10 days!

Own_My_Own

:mad: just wrote a long post and lost it :mad:

So I will start again

:(Sorry to hear about your Mum Rosygirl.:(

:santa2: Welcome all newbies :santa2:

:snow_laug Finally got to Colchester shopping :snow_laug


BHS has its Christmas shop open :j
Got myself a retro radio biscuit tin.:D Have been dropping hints about one of these for years on deaf ears, so bought it myself.

Poundland had Horrible History books in. ( Who was looking for books for boys?)

Asda have candy canes in for a £1. They also had some lovely traditional style, scandinavian themed, children PJs. (Someone was looking for some.)

Got 2 of the book sets in WHS and got given a privilege card. Up to 20% of all transactions between Sun 21 Oct - Sun 4 Nov. It can be used everyday

Managed to get into Home Bargains 15 minutes before it closed :eek:
Me and Dd did our own Supermarket Sweep:rotfl::rotfl:
They have the Rudolf DVD game in. (If anyone local is interested.)
I got the Vtech Tablet for my nephew for £9.99. So am very pleased. It was £11.99 down from £14.99 in Argos.

So I am now back to only needing the calendar and I will be finished.:snow_grin

Finally got DDs winter coat, so she is now ready for any snow :rotfl:
I say finally as she must have tried on every one she saw.:mad:

If I lose this one on posting I will cry and you will only get an :mad: in my next post.
Here goes .........

Own_My_Own

pinknfluffy28 wrote: »

rosygirl - sorry to hear of your very sad loss, thoughts are with you and your family

ive read a lot of posts about skittles vodka, tried this a couple of years ago and they were awful! however, last year i made black jack vodka, and fruit salad vodka, 2 of the chewy sweets popped into 3/4 bottle of vodka every week for 10 weeks OMG both were absoloutly amazing, the black jack was our favourite and im ashamed to say dh & i got throught the whole bottle in 10 days!

Thanks pinknfluffy28
I love black jacks, so am going for that one.:j:j
10 weeks.
It will be ready just in time for Christmas .:j:j

cornishorchid

pinknfluffy28 wrote: »

ive read a lot of posts about skittles vodka, tried this a couple of years ago and they were awful! however, last year i made black jack vodka, and fruit salad vodka, 2 of the chewy sweets popped into 3/4 bottle of vodka every week for 10 weeks OMG both were absoloutly amazing, the black jack was our favourite and im ashamed to say dh & i got throught the whole bottle in 10 days!

Oh the black jack one sounds good, think I'm going to do this for my hubby and bro/sil
I've heard of putting them in the dishwasher...must be something to do with making the process faster? Has anyone tried it?or any other ideas for flavours, I was thinking of pear drops?

pinknfluffy28

Own_My_Own wrote: »

Thanks pinknfluffy28
I love black jacks, so am going for that one.:j:j
10 weeks.
It will be ready just in time for Christmas .:j:j

started mine last weekend, making 3 bottles of each this year, two of each to go in parents hampers, and of course a bottle of each for us to enjoy over the hols. im just using the asda homebrand vodka again, and i only needed five bottles as we poured 1/4 out of each to fill up two empties we had saved!! good luck, i know you will love them!

Zoe.

Snugglebunny8 wrote: »

wish we had a B&M, Home Bargains, Pound Shop and Range, do any of them do online?

Home Bargains and The Range have online stores, and apparently Poundland is getting one in 2013