£2 Christmas present challenge

mabelmoo_2

Last year I started a £2 Christmas gift tradition after seeing loads of amazing ideas on here! :j

Just wondered if anyone else was going to be doing it this year, & if so what you are getting.

For anyone that's interested in doing it for the first time, the challenge in our house is to buy a gift that costs exactly £2 - not a penny over or under. Obviously you can interpret it in your own way.

kachar

Great idea!

My adult siblings and I exchange stockings instead of buying a main gift, and we have a £1 spending limit on anything that goes in it, and a maximum budget of £10 for the whole stocking. Anything got free or home made can go in too, providing the ingredients or whatever still cost less than a pound per stocking. The first year we did it we had sooo much fun xmas shopping, and I can't wait to finish my stockings off this year. We are all big readers so I hunt the charity shops for a book at 5op to fill the main part, then it's time to be creative..:j

hamsterfan1

tried to suggest this to my kids as they are all short of cash - have been told by all them it's too far from christmas for them to decide - it's wrecking my shopping plans

CarolynRach

What a fun idea - will suggest this to my friends! Definitely a trip to Poundland required. And some crafty things too

mary-op

Trying to keep it cheap this year (as always).
So far I've got
necklaces and bracelets (funky sort) for 50p each........three lots for sons girlfriends and foster daughter -got them from a house sale
Made a sort of word search from some old wooden scrabble tiles I had -one is a coastal them for son who lives at the coast, the other is Beatles stuff for the Beatlemania one. Used old chopping boards I don't need, drilled hole in the back for hanging so the only cost so far has been the glue
Making wrist warmers from wool left over from some I did last year so hard to work out cost of them but its not much

Looking forward to seeing some other ideas:)

dory22

me and my sisters do this every year we buy each other a 'trick' present that must not be more then £2 and must be as crazy as possible.

my eldest sister loves marshmellows and flumps like last year she eat a whole tube of flumps from costco befor christmas day was over, just seen in asda giant american marshmellows for £1.50 in the halloween section so that coulds be a good idea for you.

although you do only get 8 marshmellows so my sister will finish them before xmas lunch! her poor kids she doesnt let them have sweets very often then last year they had to witness handfuls of flumps being shuffed into her mouth i think my 6yr nephew is still traumatised by it. lol