Innovative ideas for stocking

katty11

My friend and I have set ourselves the challenge of doing £10.00 stockings for each other full of nice things. Does anyone have any recommendations of cheap and nice things to put in a stocking - like make up and other girly things?

Spendless

I saw Superdrug had various small boxes of chocs eg ferrero rocher and milk tray for £1.

make up wipes? Cheap but relatively 'bulky'.

lip balm.

mini bottle of wine - just over £1 or might come under if you can buy in a cheaper shop eg home bargains

quinechinoise

Can you sew or knit? You can make loads of nice little gifts with scraps of material... or "upcycling" old clothes. Would help keep the costs down. There's a sewing thread (how apt!) on here somewhere and there's lots of free knitting patterns on Ravelry.

kingfisherblue

Mini manicure set

Small photo frame

Make up wipes

Glittery pen (69p I think, Home Bargains)

Miniature notepad

Mini toiletries

Costume jewellery (from £2 in Boots at the moment)

Metallic gel pans (or gold and silver pen - 39p in Home Bargains)

Nice pack of tissues

Nail polish

Chocolate spoon (make your own for a few pence)

Compact mirror - pound shop sells small ones that have a normal mirror and a magnifying mirror

Most of these things are from Home Bargains or the pound shop.

mudmon5ter

Last year my sister and I decided that we would only spend a fiver on each other. I bought 3 copies of glamour which had different colours of nails inc nail varnish included. (1 on each mag). The magazines cost £2 each so I did blow my budget by £1 but the rrp on eaçh bottle is £11 so I really spent £33 on her!

Glamour mag are doing it again in Decembers issue. Your friend would get nail polish and a mag thrown in! You'd by some cheap nail varnish remover and cotton wool pads to go with it.

Miss_Havisham

kingfisherblue wrote: »

Mini manicure set

Small photo frame

Make up wipes

Glittery pen (69p I think, Home Bargains)

Miniature notepad

Mini toiletries

Costume jewellery (from £2 in Boots at the moment)

Metallic gel pans (or gold and silver pen - 39p in Home Bargains)

Nice pack of tissues

Nail polish

Chocolate spoon (make your own for a few pence)

Compact mirror - pound shop sells small ones that have a normal mirror and a magnifying mirror

Most of these things are from Home Bargains or the pound shop.

this would do me as a "main" present, knowing that someone had gone to a lot of trouble to find so may bits and bobs to suit me.

Nanamia

Christmas 2005 my DH was given maximum three weeks to live, thankfully he defied all odds and is still with us So christmas 2006 I was so excited to have him for another Christmas and obviously there had been an awful lot of counting our blessings that DD, DS and I decided Christmas was about being together and a commercial Christmas was not for us that year. We made a £10 limit for presents and each did stockings. We had such a lot of fun choosing well thought out silly little gifts. It was the best Christmas ever. So have fun x

kingfisherblue

Miss_Havisham wrote: »

this would do me as a "main" present, knowing that someone had gone to a lot of trouble to find so may bits and bobs to suit me.

When my sister was 30, I bought her thirty small presents and wrapped them up. She was delighted with the thought that had gone into her present. A couple of years ago when she was 40, I did the same but with forty small presents. One of the gifts was some Scouting cartoons printed from the internet and put into a display book from the pound shop - she's a Beaver leader and loved the fact that I had spent time and effort to find things that she would appreciate, rather than buying a more expensive, but anonymous gift.

I've seen a few ideas on other threads that I think I might borrow. Tonight she has been teasing me about my cooking skills - I'm not brilliant, but I'm not as bad as she makes out. I'm just totally disinterested in cooking. I think I'll take a covered plate over at Christmas and tell her I've made a couple of Yule logs. It'll be funny to see her face drain of colour, but someone has posted Yule logs made from facecloths on another thread, and that is what will be on the plate

OP, sorry to hijack your thread

hollylollie

Make a hot chocolate gift - get yourself to the £1 shop buy a mug and then an individual hot chocolate, a big bag of marshmallows and wrap it up in an oven roasting bag and tie it with some ribbon

looks more expensive than it is and you can personalise it, even paint the mug if you fancy it!!

Save the rest of the marshmallows and eat yourself, or do the same gift for someone else lol

motherhen2234

hollylollie wrote: »

Make a hot chocolate gift - get yourself to the £1 shop buy a mug and then an individual hot chocolate, a big bag of marshmallows and wrap it up in an oven roasting bag and tie it with some ribbon

looks more expensive than it is and you can personalise it, even paint the mug if you fancy it!!

Save the rest of the marshmallows and eat yourself, or do the same gift for someone else lol

I did something similar last year as part of secret santa. Poundland has xmas mugs with a stuffed toy in them. I took one of those and added a home made hot chocolate cone. (cone filled with hot chocolate, marshmallows) and with a candy cane on the side for stirring)