BAUK's Bithday Challenge

blackangeluk

hypno06 wrote: »

Fab start! You should be able to get a £10 voucher from pigsback before the end of the month, you may have to sign up to a few boring newsletters but, hey, you are being "paid" to do so, so what the heck!

For an extra free present for each of them, how about making a book of vouchers that they can cash in with things like:

- your favourite dinner cooked at a weekend
- time to play your favourite board game all together
- a favourite story to be read to you

etc, real "quality time" things that cost nothing but they will have fun cashing in the vouchers.

What a fab idea! I love it!

Snaggles

Good luck with the eBaying - I've got a box full of stuff to list but I can't seem to get round to it. How come kids always want to hang onto clothes that are 3 sizes too small? DS has a Spongebob t-shirt that we bought in France when he was 3 (he's now 6) and he just wont part with it, even though he can barely get it on.

blackangeluk

Hi Snaggles

DD has sooo many clothes that she has just grown attached to but like you said, she just cannot get into. DS has also insisted we keep his 12 month Postman Pat T-Shirt even though he's 3 - have tried to explain I will buy him another that actually covers his elbows, but hey no and he's now in bed wearing the T-shirt and some Pat jogging bottoms which now looked like cropped trousers :rotfl:

BTW Your post re childbirth bought back painful memories - have been there re the stitching as well - ouch :eek:

lynzpower

have you seen the freebies board tonight? theres a early learning centre 5 off and free potage code- no min spend- so you can get something worth a fiver- for free! head over and get something before they close the glitch!

blackangeluk

Thank you soooooo much, have purchased a "honey bee tree" for my little one for the whole massive price of.................................£1.00 :j :j :j

One present down - £1 - wahooooooo

:T

blackangeluk

Hmm, according to the Freebies board you can use the code twice, I did and it accepted it, do you think I dare try a third time? :rotfl:

Seaxwyn

Go for it Blackangel - and report back.

I was a copycat and bought a Honey Bee Tree too - for my niece's birthday coming up - thanks for saving me the trouble of thinking for myself!

I'm just sorry my own children are too old for ELC now, that could have been christmas sorted. Oh well....

blackangeluk

Honey Bee Tree looks cool doesn't it. DH wanted to get him some manic game, but it looked noisy so I settled for something quieter.

Got a space hopper and it accepted the voucher code again, if it comes through ok then fab, but if not it was £5.80 including some bubbles and I could live with spending that. So it is either £1.80 for two presents or £6.80 - bargain whatever

Going back to the freebies board now for more bargains:T

lynzpower

angel - definatley worth looking on sites like hotukdeals for codes like this they have some vey good ones.

Dont get carried away tho!

blackangeluk

Well, I got myself into gear and put two bundles of the kids clothes on Ebay and so far have raised £44.20 towards their birthday fund :j

I have found two pairs of jeans of mine that have gone on and various toys the kids no longer want, so I'm hoping to get them on tomorrow whilst DH takes them out for a bit. Then I really need to clean up the 3 wheeler pram and get that on it.

So I need £75.80 to go to my £120 target and have 5 weeks to do it. Have also been looking around and there are lots of pressies for a fiver at a time that little one will like and a few things on Ebay for DD which are far cheaper than brand new in a box.

So all in all I'm feeling very pleased with myself