Apparently I am a "sad specimen"!!

pleasedelete

julie2710 wrote: »

Does it make me even sadder because I have just got my Christmas pudding for next year as it was only £2 for a feeds 12 pudding? It has an expiry date of March 2014 so I felt it was a bargain

If it is a decent pudding, you only bought one and you didn't have 15 in the cupboard from last year then it is a good buy. Plus I hope you isn't go into debt to get the pudding (or if you did add on 30 per cent and then think was it a bargain -well probably still was at £2)..

julie2710

pleasedelete wrote: »

If it is a decent pudding, you only bought one and you didn't have 15 in the cupboard from last year then it is a good buy. Plus I hope you isn't go into debt to get the pudding (or if you did add on 30 per cent nd then think was it a bargain -well probably still).

Same pudding we had this year and it was yummy! It's the only one I've got. Paid cash for it so didn't increase any debt. I think the regular price was £7.50!

seehar

pleasedelete wrote: »

A bespoke £1 gift says I know all about you, I love you and I care. Honestly with friends and families it is not about the cost but getting the perfect gift.

where do you find/make these £1 bespoke gifts?!

I always get my wrapping paper in January, loads cheaper

pleasedelete

katieowl wrote: »

I don't think you are a sad specimen. I think you are a very sensible and wise person I bought some of this years gifts in the TKMaxx sale after Xmas last year....a DKNY scarf which cost me £4 and was marked as original price £97 and a pair of gorgeous cashmere mittens for £3 (originally £30) Both the recipients were made up with them, although I confess I was a tiny bit embarassed at the low cost of both of them!!! (only a tiny bit you understand :rotfl:)


Lets remember the DM ran a story a couple of days back where some woman said that to keep her son in private school she was (shock horror) shopping in Ald! and L!dl. The SHAME :rotfl: stupid mare!


Kate

They sound like good gifts if you thought about the recipient.

My oh has received a tk maxx scarf last year and another scarf this year from a family member (same one). My oh is a clothes perfectionist- he spent 2 years finding and buying the perfect new scarf (replacing a 10 year old one). No-one who knows him would buy him clohes as he is so precise in what he likes - so a bad gift - I am sure just bought as cheap. on the upside my father who hasn't bought an item of clothing for 60 years now has 2 scarfs.

Own_My_Own

pleasedelete wrote: »

But you presumably know your son uses joop? But a cousin or uncle or grandad may hate it. Smelly stuff is so personal but often bought as gifts. Both my teenagers got Boots sets from an aunt (this years). Dd can't use anything as severe skin problems and son won't use ted baker (or whatever it was ) because at 16 the smell matters.

And no I am not regifting them! They will go to the local homeless shelter as we send toiletries when they appeal ever year (1 month is toiletry month, I baked bean monthnetc etc)

I am quite fortunate that I am close to everyone I buy for, so know their taste.
In my opinion, if we are not close enough for me to know their taste, then we are not close enough to exchange gifts.

givememoney

I personally couldn't stand joining crowds to throng into stores with the hopes of getting a bargain.

I don't like the way stores cram all sale items onto racks which seem to eventually seem to end up on the floor.

It is the same thing as `auction fever` where you buy because panic sets in. I would rather think about what I need.

Also years ago my mother was a seamstress and made clothes sometimes specifically for the sales.....poorer quality

pleasedelete

seehar wrote: »

where do you find/make these £1 bespoke gifts?!

I always get my wrapping paper in January, loads cheaper

My son bought me 4 boxes of poppets (my favourite sweets) and our local shop stopped selling them.

My best friend came round with pink carnations (£2.99) that perfectly match a vase I have (and told ,me as he arrived that was why he had bought them) etc etc My grown up daughter bought me a cheap keyring- seems an odd gift but it had a picture (she bought it because of the picture) on it that was a shared joke from her childhood- when I get out my keys I think of her and smile every day.

My husband got me an entire bag full of black midget gems (I have no idea if he bought loads and fished out the black or got the lady in the local sweet shop to sort out the black- probably not as she is grumpy at best)

All very thoughtful.

seehar

pleasedelete wrote: »

My son bought me 4 boxes of poppets (my favourite sweets) and our local shop stopped selling them.

My best friend came round with pink carnations (£2.99) that perfectly match a vase I have (and told ,me as he arrived that was why he had bought them) etc etc My grown up daughter bought me a cheap keyring- seems an odd gift but it had a picture (she bought it because of the picture) on it that was a shared joke from her childhood- when I get out my keys I think of her and smile every day.

My husband got me an entire bag full of black midget gems (I have no idea if he bought loads and fished out the black or got the lady in the local sweet shop to sort out the black- probably not as she is grumpy at best)

All very thoughtful.

aah that's nice Might suggest something similar with my family this year, something thoughtful

Spendless

I buy Boots gift sets in the 75% sale and with my points if I can, and I am not thoughtless at present buying, I am considered one of the best in the family.

I buy with regards to the packaging, eg the last years Sanctuary set my sis-in-law got, was because it was in a vanity case that I knew she would use and at full-price it would have been out of budget and I wouldn't have been able to get another case anywhere else for the price I paid. 21 yo student neice ended up with a hamper full of all diff bits, including a passport holder bought in the sale, and hair care products and I was told by sis-in-law that she adored my gift.

My neice and nephew who are twins and have just gone to Secondary school got the mini perfume/aftershave sets. I remember adoring the same as a teenager. At full price they were almost £20.:eek: There is no way they'd have had them if I'd paid full whack. This way they were able to have something else in addition. My almost teenage son received small toiletry sets from 2 people this year and looked quite baffled as he unwrapped them- showering being an alien concept but I now know from the tentative squirts he's used, to look for something more along these lines for next year, and I know he won't be into brand x more than brand y yet, likewise my currently 9 yo daughter has already queried why my perfume (chanel no 5) could still be smelled when hers (moshi monsters) had worn off :rotfl: so I know a set with a bit more 'grown-up' perfume is order of the day for her next Christmas.

sjprmc01

Lol! I've got the moshi monsters perfume for my 6yr olds 7th birthday in Jun from boots 1/2 price!

My current 7yr old has more expensive tastes. She has a prized bottle of dkny delicious. At Lear that way it keeps her from chancing upon my perfumes

All 3 of my dds have a current obsession with trying to get as many perfume samples on those wee white bits of paper from boots as possible, lol!