Old Style Christmas Preparations for Christmas 2013

Islandmaid

Uniexgirluk - great idea about Mr T for DS2 - u fortunately DD,s makeup of choice is Lancome - champagne taste on a beer budget that one she does only get it for Xmas and b,day though.

Have decided to make chocolate truffles for MIL and my M&D - will put them on a large mug with hot choc spoons etcwill keep an eye out for cheap mugs Mr S had some lovely giant cups and saucers for £2.50 each, but i,m sure £land will have some thing suitable before Xmas and hopefully some clear plastic spoons to make the choc spoons

whitesatin

Ordered a Silver Cross doll's bed from Amazon for my grandaughter. I hope she doesn't have one already - she's got just about everything! Anyway, I only paid half price for it, seems like a bargain.

lobbyludd

flyingmamma wrote: »

My main problem is gift buying for others I buy a friend and her 4 children ... It costs at least £100... And they buy us... Is it awful for me to ask her not to buy us??? I'm on maternity leave so money is tight!

of course it's not awful, she probably feels exactly the same, and if the kids (yours and hers) are like mine - they have loads of toys, and I dread the new onslaught at christmas. Last year I agreed with a friend that we would buy for each other only, not spouses or children. After all - it's us that are friends, we know each other well enough to buy something each other appreciates (but more often than not very cheap), whereas I know the kids/spouse presents are expensive and generic and probably pointless.

Uniscots97

Islandmaid wrote: »

Uniexgirluk - great idea about Mr T for DS2 - u fortunately DD,s makeup of choice is Lancome - champagne taste on a beer budget that one she does only get it for Xmas and b,day though.

Have decided to make chocolate truffles for MIL and my M&D - will put them on a large mug with hot choc spoons etcwill keep an eye out for cheap mugs Mr S had some lovely giant cups and saucers for £2.50 each, but i,m sure £land will have some thing suitable before Xmas and hopefully some clear plastic spoons to make the choc spoons

For the make-up why not go to Debenhams and ask them for some samples of Lancome as a stocking filler. Also there's one of the make-up/perfume sites on quidco that does Lancome and Estee Lauder quite cheap.

For nice but cheap mugs try Home Bargains (around 49p) they also do clear plastic spoons but not sure of the price.

quidsy

Cake in the oven, get ready for the receipe thread.

Valli

flyingmamma wrote: »

My main problem is gift buying for others I buy a friend and her 4 children ... It costs at least £100... And they buy us... Is it awful for me to ask her not to buy us??? I'm on maternity leave so money is tight!

You might well find she is equally relieved. If you *really* feel you must buy something you could buy a tin of sweets or biscuits or a board game for the whole family to share - but I would expect that, if you had the conversation early enough you can both agree to stop the buying - and both benefit.:D

Valli

Spray paint - 400ml gold and silver now on sale in Aldi for £2.99 - can be used on dried flowers (table decs? sprayed pine cones?)

HTH

quidsy

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4750749

Cake thread is up and running

Sequeena

Someone in here recommended the carex chocolate handwash so I picked one up to try and it's lovely. I'll go back to stock up

We're up to £41 morrisons stamps and Thomas' gifts are mostly done. I need to start buying for my OH and family now.

Molly41

The cola one is yummy too x