Diary of my new life !!!

hypno06

Sounds like a good day planned, and I think your idea of the terramundi is a good one - we have a sealed tin for coins that will be opened before the kids go skiing, to go towards their pocket money for while they are away - it is fun trying to work out how much is in there by the weight of it!!

I need to go and plan my day - I basically have a day off, so don't want to waste it. Last week I was very productive on Sunday, so need to match that today!

Have a good one x

benbenandme

I checked where my nearest stockists were and it would have meant going into town which I don't need to do toherwise, so I ordered from Prezzybox ... got 8% back from quidco and £5 off first order. I ordered a pack of two and it came to £31 altogether, and I will give the second one to my sister-in-law for her birthday in January as I never know what to get her as everything is xmas leftovers in the shops. I'm pleased with this as I expected to spend £20 on it anyway and I normally spend about £20 on her birthday too so all in all I think I've done alright It also means I don't need to go to the garden centre anymore or at least not the one I was planning on going to which is miles away

hypno06

Thanks Benben - I have just shown DD on quidco, and told her that this is what I want for Christmas- can get two and give one to my sister too. Sorted!!!

lilmissmup

Wish i had seen your post on that thread before i brought mine off ebay! As ended up buying a xmas present from the same seller! :rolleyes:

Oh well!

Sea78

What a productive day benben! Sounds like an enjoyable one though

Sea xx

benbenandme

Bit of a hit and miss day so far where my list was concerned ... I went to the garage and found all the xmas stuff, we've got bucketloads of lights, indoor / outdoor / coloured / white, you name it we seem to have it, God knows where they all came from, I don't remember having enough to light London before :rolleyes: :rolleyes: Decoration wise its all a bit sad ... I have lots of nice bits but not much for the tree ... I love all different colours and sparkle, none of this sophisticated colour co-ordinating lark for me, nope in my house christmas means tacky :rotfl: :rotfl: Can't beat a bit of tinsel and paper chains lol

So, I will need to find some new bits for the tree but that should be easy enough. We have also been to the shopping centre to M&S to get the bag for my friends present ... except they didn't have any at all, even though they do about 6 colours and they're all in stock on their website and its advertised in their xmas magazine that they still have available to buy at their tills :mad: Anyhow, a nice lady went and checked the computers and they have reserved one in London for me that I need to pick up on saturday just before I meet my mate :rolleyes: They had better still have it when I get there or I'm stuffed
I also nipped into Sainsburys to get some butter and ended up spending £21 I bought the butter and some cocktail sausages and then discovered the half-price toys :rolleyes:
I bought: 4 x Thomas jigsaw puzzzles £1.99, Fireman Sam walkie talkies £3.49, a little remote controlled car £2.49, a little digger £1.49, a plastic builders set £2.49 a Maisy counting board game £2.99 and an electronic suduko £4.99. The sudoku is for my nephew and my budget there was £8 so thats good, the rest is for my present box and some will be for ds stocking as I'm a bit worried that mst of his stuff this year is books and stuff and not many fun toys iyswim

benbenandme

• Go to the garden centre and buy a terramundi (I know its xmas soon, but I get enough comments about my piggy banks without getting more for a terramundi, I will use some of Mum and Dads money for it). Bought it online instead
• Go to M&S and buy best mates pressie as I'm seeing her next weekend so need it for then. It is a beautiful bag that was £50 but they have reduced them now to £40 and I have a £10 voucher, so bargains all round Went to M&S and ordered one for saturday :rolleyes:
• Sort through all the christmas decorations and see what we need to buy this year and hopefully get some at the garden centre. Had a sort through and know where we're at but haven't bought any more yet
• Bath and hairwash for both of us Just off to run ds bath now
• Check what ds has to take to school for the school fayre and dig out some stuff Oops, forgot :eek:
• Go to the park Ds hasn't mentioned it all day so I have got away with it for today

Hmmm, well I haven't done much off my list after all. I have donw some other stuff instead though, we have had 3 games of snakes and ladders and then we made some gingerbread men. Well, we planned to make gingerbread men but I don''t have a "Man" cutter, so we went for gingerbread piggies and sheep instead. All was going fine until I realised a few ingredients were missing so I made do with somthing similar .........


Has anyone ever seen gingerbread "men" rise before :eek: :eek: :eek: :rotfl: :rotfl:
Ds thinks they're great and wants me to make more like it for the school fayre They do taste nice though and they made the flat smell yummy so thats all okay really

Right, off to get his bath ready and then a bit of a tidy up before he goes to the land of nod

benbenandme

Little uns in bed now and I've just sat down with a cup of tea and reckon I need to write a list of stuff to do this week or I will forget everything and it will be a mad rush in December :rolleyes:

• Monday night - Tesco wine delivery is due :j :j
• Thursday night - pack ds stuff to take to his dads and pack my stuff to take to visit friend
• Thursday night - make some biscuits for ds to take to school for the school fayre (or nip to tesco:eek: )
• Wrap friends presents and write cards for friends in London that I'll see at the weekend
• Get ds to decorate two sweetie boxes to take with me at the weekend
• Buy ds an advent calender

Doesnt't seem much now I've written it all down, but it seemed a lot going round my head :rolleyes:

hypno06

hi benben - those gingerbread men sound yummy to me. As for them rising - well even gingerbread men put weight on you know!

benbenandme

They did taste yummy though although ds couldn't see that they were sheep and told nanna that we had made gingerbread clouds :eek: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Forgot to add to my list that I need to do Decembers budget this week too