Hamper Themes & Contents

lb364

deltasbutterfly wrote: »

dandelion and burdock chocolate.

Seriously?! I'm intrigued! Where did you get that from?

ipswichblade

Football hamper for OH:

Everything is in a football container which will be used for keeping football programmes in afterwards - £1 (Poundland)
Football pencil case - £1 (local £1 shop)
3 pin badges of OHs teams - £4.50 (ebay x 1 and official club shop for other 2 in the sale)
Football songs CD - £1 (Poundland)
Soccer am best bits DVD - £1 (Poundland)
6 DVDs in a collection on best football goals - £1.50 (local charity shop)
OHs football team playing cards - £2 (official club shop sale)
Football travel game - 99p (99p store)
Olympic GB keyring - £1 (Entertainer) We went to see GB football team play in the Olympics!
Football socks x 3 - £3 (Poundland)
T-shirt in OHs team colours - £3 (H&M sale)
Haribo football mix - 50p (Poundland)
Box of fruit gums as he always takes these when we go to football - £1 (Poundland)
Top Trump England football cards - collected a while back from newspaper

Hotel booking for Travelodge in Cardiff for a weekend in January when OHs team play there - £24 for 2 nights booked in the last sale

Can't buy the tickets for the above game yet but money wallet for those to go in - 0.29p (Card Factory)

Total cost = £45.78 plus OHs ticket when I can get it which will cost £21.

This is his main present, just got a few other things to wrap up to go with it. Will put a picture up when it's wrapped.

deltasbutterfly

lb364 wrote: »

Seriously?! I'm intrigued! Where did you get that from?

it's from Mr Simms sweet shop, it's even half milk chocolate colour and half purple.

islandgirl8

ipswichblade wrote: »

Football hamper for OH:

Everything is in a football container which will be used for keeping football programmes in afterwards - £1 (Poundland)
Football pencil case - £1 (local £1 shop)
3 pin badges of OHs teams - £4.50 (ebay x 1 and official club shop for other 2 in the sale)
Football songs CD - £1 (Poundland)
Soccer am best bits DVD - £1 (Poundland)
6 DVDs in a collection on best football goals - £1.50 (local charity shop)
OHs football team playing cards - £2 (official club shop sale)
Football travel game - 99p (99p store)
Olympic GB keyring - £1 (Entertainer) We went to see GB football team play in the Olympics!
Football socks x 3 - £3 (Poundland)
T-shirt in OHs team colours - £3 (H&M sale)
Haribo football mix - 50p (Poundland)
Box of fruit gums as he always takes these when we go to football - £1 (Poundland)
Top Trump England football cards - collected a while back from newspaper

Hotel booking for Travelodge in Cardiff for a weekend in January when OHs team play there - £24 for 2 nights booked in the last sale

Can't buy the tickets for the above game yet but money wallet for those to go in - 0.29p (Card Factory)

Total cost = £45.78 plus OHs ticket when I can get it which will cost £21.

This is his main present, just got a few other things to wrap up to go with it. Will put a picture up when it's wrapped.

Please do, I'd love to see it!

ipswichblade

islandgirl8 wrote: »

Please do, I'd love to see it!

Will do. :beer:

pinknfluffy28

calicocat wrote: »

Hi , where did you get the rotating server from please ?

[EMAIL="amaz@n"]amaz@n[/EMAIL], they currently have them for £12.99, which is much more than i paid, but i would say still worth it

pinknfluffy28

MY GARDEN HAMPER cost £18 ish rrp £25ish
this was a last minute hamper for a friends dd, but i loved it & have decided i will do a larger one, same theme, for my dd next year!!
Contents:
garden birds book
garden creepy crawlies book
bug watcher jar type thing
mini trowel & fork
gardening gloves
make / paint a bird box
3 x mini plant pots & paint set to decorate them
selection of seeds

ipswichblade

My first attempt at a hamper. It is a football hamper for OH and has changed a bit since my previous post on this thread:

Everything is in a football container which will be used for keeping football programmes in afterwards - £1 (Poundland)
Football pencil case - £1 (local £1 shop)
3 pin badges of OHs teams - £4.50 (ebay x 1 and official club shop for other 2 in the sale)
Football songs CD - £1 (Poundland)
Soccer am best bits DVD - £1 (Poundland)
England book - 99p (99p store)
Football book - £1.99 (Amazon)
6 DVDs in a collection on best football goals - £1.50 (local charity shop)
OHs football team playing cards - £2 (official club shop sale)
Football travel game - 99p (99p store)
Olympic GB keyring - £1 (Entertainer) We went to see GB football team play in the Olympics!
Football socks x 3 - £3 (Poundland)
T-shirt in OHs team colours - £3 (H&M sale)
Haribo football mix - 50p (Poundland)
Box of fruit gums as he always takes these when we go to football - £1 (Poundland)
Top Trump England football cards - collected a while back from newspaper so £0.

Total cost = £23 including container and cellophane and tag.

mummybearx

Made two of these this year, one for my brother and his wife, one for dh sister and her husband.

Bottle of rose wine - free as someone gave it to me but I don't drink
Bag of butterkist popcorn - £1 poundland
Bag of Minstrels - £1 poundland
Pack of thorntons oat and chocolate bites - free as someone gave them to me
Step brothers on DVD and Love actually on DVD - £6 ish for both from amazon, paid for with Swagbucks vouchers
Wrapped a cardboard box that I had an amazon delivery in, and used the paper wrapping as a base for my hamper -free
Bought some cellophane from eBay using pinecone payments -£3 but free

Total spend of my money for both hampers £4, total cost if I actually paid for everything, about £28 for both hampers

SharkyGeorge

I was inspired by the zombie survival hamper on another thread to write the following article for a fanboy website. It has ideas for home-made Lord of the Rings/Hobbit hampers, superhero hampers and of course zombie hampers!

http://www.unleashthefanboy.com/news/le-geek-cest-chic-last-minute-christmas-ideas-for-fanboys/38237