*The Holly and the Ivy* and the You Know What 2013 Chatter Thread.

curiouscrafter

Afternoon, just checking in to wish you all a safe and happy New Year's Eve :0)

We don't have much planned tonight, dh, ds and dd will have a picnic tea and some fizzy pop along with a little disco, I will YouTube a video of the Big Ben count down about 8ish they are only little so won't know any different ;0) hehe

Plan to have a lazy day tomorrow, watch a few films maybe ds out to the local park on his new scooter.

We'd I will be in panic mode sorting out for dd birthday on Thursday, must find homes for all the christmas gift as more will be coming her way. I have put away all the christmas bits and bob up the loft. I now have 4 lovely Seagrams boxes on top of my wardrobe.

Christmas ds
Christmas dd
Christmas general
Birthdays

These are very easy to get to so no excuses of not knowing what I have got.

I have made a list today of what extra food we actually ate of christmas so will now what to get next year. Although what is left this year will be used for dd birthday and ds is end of jan so it won't go to waste, chocolate and sweets will go in party bag.

Best wishes for 2013

C.C

Snugglebunny8

just popped back to let everyone know Sainsburys have all their gifts 70% off in store, not sure if online too, also all the wrapping paper was 70% off as well :-)

ReformedShopaholic

pinknfluffy28 regarding the science hamper (which I love the sound of btw) just been looking at Home Bargains website and they have a microscope kit for £9.99. Not sure if it will be any good?
http://www.homebargains.co.uk/products/1850-natural-sciences-microscope-kit.aspx

ReformedShopaholic

Oh hang on just looked again and they have 3 different microscope kit ones.
A 100 piece kit for £19.99.
Or a 40 piece set for £12.99.

Both of these are Vivitar brand. The one I linked earlier is Natural Sciences.

FBG85

Picked up my Order from H of F, the gloves for my sister are fab and my birthday note book is gorgeous :j( lol I'm easily pleased!) was tempted by some reduced Joseph Joseph cook ware for my dad, I bought him the Paul Hollywood cookbook for Christmas ( he requested it) but come next Christmas he might have bought similar things already, argh! :huh:

FeistyFidget

Tried Sainsburys online but couldnt find the reduced gifts We only have a tiny one near me and the car is still off the road.

bunbun2

OH and the boys have just come back from mr S and M&S. they went to buy party food for tonight. OH said there was absolutely nothing left. they ended up getting a few bits from Mr T and lid*.

I am gutted as the other day in mr S they had loads of tagines in their Christmas gift section (that was about all they had) and I though it would make a good present for SIL and BIL for their birthday which is on the same day. OH said there wan;t a single one left. so I now have to think of something else - preferably in the sale:(

snugglebunny that was a fab price for the yankee votives

reformed shopaholic hope you are feeling better. I had the bug before Christmas and I am still so tired. although that could be because I have hardly left the house:rotfl:

nanamia well done with your TKmaxx bargains

daisiegg my ds came home fro buying the party food and said "but they had mini eggs":eek:

feistyfidget did you get your fitbit?

curiouscrafter love the idea of showing big ben on youtube!

hanley sorry to read about your experience yesterday and hope the little dog and all adults are OK

bunbun2

FeistyFidget wrote: »

Tried Sainsburys online but couldnt find the reduced gifts We only have a tiny one near me and the car is still off the road.

ours is a huge store but OH said there was nothing left today:(

dropsofjupiter

Had a lovely surprise last night, my parents brought back from my Nana's 3 boxes of her Christmas decorations which she had said I could have. In one were 3 jewel coloured plastic trees which I have adored since I was about 6 years old and had always wondered what had happened to. Really made my evening

Hiked into the next town to us today to have a look at the sale stuff (might actually achieve my 10,000 steps on fitbit today! :j). Picked up a pair of slippers and Minnie Mouse bathbombs for me in b00ts and a set of perfumes to be split up for Christmas 2013. Also picked up a tonne of half price shampoo and conditioner (trading in my points so technically free :T) so my arms now feel pulled from their sockets :eek:

Happy new year to you all, wishing you the best for 2013!

ReformedShopaholic

I really want one of those fitbits after hearing so much about them :rotfl:

Well we don't have any plans for tonight. I never have really seen the big deal with NYE.

I have spent this afternoon looking at sale stuff online. Not really seen anything that catches my eye up to now. A few things from the works but we have one in town so will save delivery and pop in when I've left work on Thurs.

Did notice that online Hobbycraft had some small Christmas cross stitches in the sale for £1.03 the other day, they have now gone back up to £1.29 but are still in the sale part??