Gift in a Jar ideas

bunbun2

savingholmes I love the jar you used for your journal - might have to have a trip to instore:rotfl:

rainmac

Really love your journal jar and pot savingholmes and one a month is a fab idea! I love the whole journalling idea and think I will make some more for birthday pressies/Xmas next year.

rainmac

bunbun2 wrote: »

savingholmes I love the jar you used for your journal - might have to have a trip to instore:rotfl:

Don't buy them all, I'd like one too

rainmac

mary43 wrote: »

Oh lor.............is anyone else as confused as me or am I having megga senior moments all to myself. I've got a jar in my box of 'stuff to do'.......too big for the 'safe keeping' one, not big enough for journal, quotes or facts..........can't face any more pickled bums -but I must have kept it for a reason...................
And its just taken me an hour to work out why I wrestled with OH over a gravy granules tin....................lol Knew I needed it for something, didn't know what................had to scroll back on here to find it and it was to put sherbet lemons in...........canned sunshine............................lol

Wheres me list................................ I've lost it................:rotfl:

I have a list on the PC but keep adding things to it in my head and not adding them to the list so I'm getting in a right muddle . Need a quiet couple of hours to go through everything and compile a complete list of everything I've done and what's left to do.

savingholmes

rainmac wrote: »

I have a list on the PC but keep adding things to it in my head and not adding them to the list so I'm getting in a right muddle . Need a quiet couple of hours to go through everything and compile a complete list of everything I've done and what's left to do.

I'm writing it down and taking pictures so I am not as tempted to keep adding....

I'm planning to use a blue top nescafe jar for my next "jar". It's for someone whose present I had "finished" - so need to make it as close to free as poss. I might make a topper of something to put over the nescafe stamp so its less obvious but personally I love the shape of the jar and it always hurts me to throw them away... (Slight OCD / hoarding tendencies coming out there):o

rainmac

I think that's what I need to do, keep a list with me at all times

Siren137

I have a notebook dedicated to Christmas (well except to the back page which is a list of things I want for my birthday because I always see things I like then when someone asks me what I want I have no idea!!

Anyway in my notebook I have put all the names of the people I'm buying for and what I am making/buying for them. Then I've got a page dedicated to what I need to buy to make them. I also have a page where I can note down the prices of stuff I've seen so I can get the cheapest.

mary43

I've got a notebook I started beginning of the year and each week when I hit the charity shops for goodies I made a note in it so I could keep track of what I;'d spent (determined to stick to tight budget this year........needs must as they say..........lol) trouble is, all these other ideas keep popping up - I make quick scribble or put website in 'favourites' then forget where paper is, and who I'm doing what for........................rofl:rotfl:

Still wondering what to do with one jar I've got (not big enough for 365 of anything!) -have got coffee jar with brown lid that would hold 365 things but really wanted different colour lid than brown.............could always pop a hat on it I suppose............but wanted it for my son........not sure a little hat on a jar would be quite 'masculine' enough...........any ideas welcome...........lol

savvy

Could you use a spreadsheet Mary??? I've got one with everyone's name, what I've bought or going to make, and then a column for the costs that adds it up as I go, then the next year I make another column, so I have a record of what I've given them before etc. I've also added a bit of a break down for craft materials so I can roughly work out how much each make costs. You could also then add your bookmark links in too

mary43

oh eck............I wouldn't know where to start with a spread sheet...........I'm better with notebook and pen really.............as long as I remember to write stuff down...................lol - started off really well earlier on but think the brain got a bit scattered.............:rotfl: