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Gettingtherequickly

msgigglewick wrote: »

Can't remember if i mentioned but i picked up a toilet seat cover and some christmas small cakes mix in 99p shop the other day.. Im Sure tescos will get some xmas themed mixes in too but grabbed some in there just incase!

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That has truly got to be the most random combination of shopping mix I have ever seen:rotfl:

msgigglewick

Gettingtherequickly wrote: »

That has truly got to be the most random combination of shopping mix I have ever seen:rotfl:

Teehee i did get a few other bits but not todo with christmas LOL

Chris25

just come back from LIDL after buying my Christmas shapes pasta - they are stars, shooting stars & Christmas trees

Cherry24

Got my retro reindeer jumper through the post today. Love it and am wearing it right now. Thanks for recommendations earlier in thread for 'Twelve days of Christmas' and 'with love at Christmas' books. Loved both of them and will gladly welcome any other suggestions.

MarliesMommyxx

Hi

I've been asked to make 5 stockings! Please help!

I am thinking of buying plain ones from a pound shop then decorate them. I'm going to go shopping this weekend for bits so any ideas would be appreciated :-)

I was also going to make or buy initials, made of either wood or salt dough to decorate and hang from them so they know who's is who's. (will tie them to the loop which you use to hang them up.)

Xx

moneysavingmumofone

MarliesMommyxx wrote: »

Hi

I've been asked to make 5 stockings! Please help!

I am thinking of buying plain ones from a pound shop then decorate them. I'm going to go shopping this weekend for bits so any ideas would be appreciated :-)

I was also going to make or buy initials, made of either wood or salt dough to decorate and hang from them so they know who's is who's. (will tie them to the loop which you use to hang them up.)

Xx

You could cut shapes from felt and stitch them on, fairly simple. Im going to do this on a plain pyjama top for DS.

Buffy_the_Vampire_Bat

Wow, lots of like minded people :j Room for one more?

I love Christmas - Mr Buffy and I usually spend Christmas Day and Boxing Day on our own, but always see our parents and his brother and sister and their partners in the run up to Christmas and make sure we have a mini Christmas with them too

Christmas present wise I buy for the family listed above and my best friend's little boy. My parents usually give me all their digital photos from the year and ask me to make them a photobook with them, I think this will be the 5th year I have done it. It's what they ask for every year and I love putting the books together, so it's a win win situation (no struggling around the shops for me, just beavering away on the laptop sat on the sofa armed with a glass of wine ) We bought Mr Buffy's English Heritage membership for Christmas a couple of years ago and have renewed it for them ever since and will be doing so again this year. We go for days out at EH places with them during the year so it's also a present we can enjoy together

For Mr Buffy's siblings and partners we have a Secret Santa - Budget of £20 and each person writes a list of three items in that price range that they would like. This way we all know we are buying presents that are wanted.

Mr Buffy and I have a set budget to spend on each other - for the past 4 years we come up with a list of 10 categories/themes and away we go. Previous themes include "Vintage", "Food and drink", "Best of British" and "Love Is All Around". We both tend not to buy DVDs, books etc in the year but draw up a list of things we would like. This list is often raided when shopping for presents for each other. I think I love giving presents even more than receiving them, and I love spending November and December plotting and shopping for Mr Buffy's presents

I have a few Christmas traditions which are followed each year without question...

1) My grandma loved Christmas and we always decorated her house together on 1st December each year. She normally had a real tree until she decided to buy a fake one because she got fed up of constantly hoovering up the fallen needles. She bought the tree in 1994. On November 30th the next year she died. I put her tree up alone that year. The tree is still going, it lives with me now and goes up without fail on December 1st each year.

2) Grandma's Christmas pudding was legendary. She found the recipe in The Observer sometime in the early 1950s. I still have the original very battered newspaper cutting, it is one of my most treasured possessions. Our Christmas pudding is always made according to this recipe.

3) I think Mr Buffy would file for divorce if I failed to produce the following on Christmas Day - a mountain of parsnips, spicy red cabbage and sausage and bacon rolls. We normally have turkey (I tend to get a crown which we will get several meals from, plus stock for turkey noodle soup), Mr Buffy's three essentials listed above, stuffing, roast potatoes, brussel sprouts and gravy. Sometimes we have homegrown carrots as well but this year I am going to do a little bit of cauliflower and broccoli cheese to go with the meal.

4) I refuse to listen to Christmas music in any month but December. But as soon as December 1st arrives, bring it on!!! Nothing like whizzing down the motorway to work in December, [STRIKE]singing harmoniously[/STRIKE] bellowing along to Slade, Elton John and Shakin' Stevens :rotfl:

5) Mr Buffy and I always wrap our presents for each other while sat one each side of the wooden storage chest in our living room (so we can't see what the other is wrapping )) while watching 'Bend It Like Beckham' and drinking bubbly. We did it one year and it somehow became tradition (yes I know BILB is hardly a Christmas film but so what :rotfl:)

Oops, time to get back to work :eek: No doubt I will be back here later

Buffy_the_Vampire_Bat

Chris25 wrote: »

just come back from LIDL after buying my Christmas shapes pasta - they are stars, shooting stars & Christmas trees

Ah, that's what the other shapes are - saw these on the Lidl app but could only identify the Christmas trees in the photo. Have added them to my shopping list for the weekend - think they are 99p a bag?

Also in Lidl this weekend, am sure it's been mentioned already but just in case it hasn't, the milk chocolate that is normally 35p is going to be on offer at 17p (Saturday and Sunday only). Best to get there early though as it can sell out quite quickly.

moneysavingmumofone

Welcome Buffy the Vampire Bat, what lovely traditions you have.

moneysavingmumofone

Buffy_the_Vampire_Bat wrote: »

Ah, that's what the other shapes are - saw these on the Lidl app but could only identify the Christmas trees in the photo. Have added them to my shopping list for the weekend - think they are 99p a bag?

Also in Lidl this weekend, am sure it's been mentioned already but just in case it hasn't, the milk chocolate that is normally 35p is going to be on offer at 17p (Saturday and Sunday only). Best to get there early though as it can sell out quite quickly.

Oh fantastic, thanks for this as I have 20 bars to buy!! :rotfl: