I am a bad bad Mother!

TeamLowe

I managed to get ours from Clinton's, asda had sold out on Friday! Ended up with thorntons ones for £6 each!!

When I say ours, I do mean me and DH, both 27

Tiddlywinks

Home made advent calendar:

- Long piece of string to make a 'washing line' and hang it on a wall.

- Get 25 little clothes pegs

- Peg 25 baby socks (or small envelopes) onto the washing line (each numbered 1 - 25)

- Put chocolates in little socks (or envelopes)


Job done and this can be used every year.

WantToBeSE

Wow, tiddlywinks, i LOVE that idea! I am going to buy some cheap tesco baby socks tomorrow, i already have mini pegs and i have some ribbon and fabric glue to decorate the socks with.
Thanks so so much

Deep_In_Debt

I never had an advent calendar as a kid but had an advent candle instead which I loved!

duchy

meritaten wrote: »

now I am a realllly bad mummy! my kids never got advent calendars! and by some miracle they never heard their friends had any! If they want to buy some for their own kids - then that's up to them!

You do realize Barnes is expecting one (yes they have cat advents too-I couldn't belieeeeeve it)

Person_one

Tip for the future for lazy/busy parents (mine were a bit of both!)

We had something like this that we kept and got out of the loft every year. If mum was particularly organised the pockets would have chocolate coins or little bouncy balls etc. If things were a bit rushed, they'd have coppers scraped from the back of a drawer or behind the settee!

Tiddlywinks

WantToBeSE wrote: »

Wow, tiddlywinks, i LOVE that idea! I am going to buy some cheap tesco baby socks tomorrow, i already have mini pegs and i have some ribbon and fabric glue to decorate the socks with.
Thanks so so much

Good luck... forgot to say that it works better if you plait the string to make it thicker as the weight can make it sag a bit.

jellyhead

Person_one wrote: »

Tip for the future for lazy/busy parents (mine were a bit of both!)

We had something like this that we kept and got out of the loft every year. If mum was particularly organised the pockets would have chocolate coins or little bouncy balls etc. If things were a bit rushed, they'd have coppers scraped from the back of a drawer or behind the settee!

Mine would love that! The teenagers have been complaining that the calendars are not in date order ... youngest enjoys the challenge of finding the number for that day but the older two are quite offended by it :rotfl:

Maybe next year I'll make them massive ones from an old duvet cover, and fill it with pot noodles

emsywoo123

TeamLowe wrote: »

Ended up with thorntons ones for £6 each!!

Totally read that as tomatoes. Might be overtired. :rotfl:

lvm

TK Maxx still had some yesterday in the clearance bit next to all chocolate gift stuff.

They'll all German type ones so not just normal chocolates. But very nice - I have 2 from there this year!