Christmas is coming! 2007 - merged thread

MrsTinks

Went to oxford yesterday and found 2 giftsets in Body shop reduced from £10 each to £4 each - so they have been added to the box of goodies...

benedictadams

Does Boot do anything which you can use as a saving stamp scheme using the advantage card?

sure i read somewhere that you could

I'm hoping that they do the 3 for 2 thing again this year as it has saved me loads in past years

shelovestobuystuff

wooohhooooo!!!:j
I have just stumbled across this thread and am overjoyed to see people even more mad and forward planning than I am regarding christmas.;)
I always buy in the January sales then forget about it till as late as August.But this year I am busy, very busy,:eek: so need to plan even further ahead than usual.
I saw some great £3.00 DVD:D bargains for the kids in tesco last week and bought some to put past for christmas.
And here was I thinking I was starting too early.:rolleyes:

witchypoo

Re: Boots - I think the only way to save up with them would be to use a gift card - either go and get one with, say £3 and then you can top it up when you want, or if someone gave you one in the past and you spent it you can still use it - just go in and ask them to put some money on it for you. I believe that would be a good way of saving for Boots gifts but unfortunately no special deal involved such as you get in major supermarkets.

shazziere

just ordered a set of 5 xmas dvds from play.com for £4.99.They include Rudolph and the island of misfit toys,annabelles wish.caspers haunted xmas,flight of the reindeer and lastly ben hurr.

Im going to use mine for a family movie hamper gift with popcorn etc(or failing that i will let my kids watch them in the xmas holidays in the build up to xmas!)

sorry dont know how to do link but you can find it under The Fantastic 5 Family DVD Digistack.

benedictadams

witchypoo wrote: »

Re: Boots - I think the only way to save up with them would be to use a gift card - either go and get one with, say £3 and then you can top it up when you want, or if someone gave you one in the past and you spent it you can still use it - just go in and ask them to put some money on it for you. I believe that would be a good way of saving for Boots gifts but unfortunately no special deal involved such as you get in major supermarkets.

sure that the extra presents on their 3 for 2 will be plenty of bonus enough

MrsTinks

benedictadams wrote: »

sure that the extra presents on their 3 for 2 will be plenty of bonus enough

Or use it when they have an after christmas 50%+ off sale Think some of the stuff I got was 75% off... made a killing with my piggy back vouchers at Boots in the sales

benedictadams

tine wrote: »

Or use it when they have an after christmas 50%+ off sale Think some of the stuff I got was 75% off... made a killing with my piggy back vouchers at Boots in the sales

Worked out if i used the card and toppped up by £3 a week that would give me £75 by Christmas which IF they do the 3 for 2 stuff should enable me to get £112 worth of presents and by the time they have started doing the 75% discount will have enough a couple for Christmas 2008:eek:

dawn2dusk

nickj wrote: »

you lot really need to get out more , or seek help !

Generally agree with nickj. I stumbled on this thread and could'nt believe it started in April.
Very MSE, very organised, you will probably have last laughs in December.
I cannot think about xmas in July. I don't do any thing for xmas until December.
Am thinking about holidays and visiting family this weekend. Thinking about xmas now depressing me.
Each to their own, happy hunting MSE'ers

rosieben

dawn2dusk wrote: »

Generally agree with nickj. I stumbled on this thread and could'nt believe it started in April.
Very MSE, very organised, you will probably have last laughs in December.
I cannot think about xmas in July. I don't do any thing for xmas until December.
Am thinking about holidays and visiting family this weekend. Thinking about xmas now depressing me.
Each to their own, happy hunting MSE'ers

we'll all have a bigger laugh in January when most people are getting the dreaded credit card bills and it really is great to not be running around like a headless chicken a few days before christmas

Sorry this has depressed you though, have a great weekend with your family!