Festive Fivers Competition: The best Xmas pressies for under £5

wightrider

NAME OF PRESENT: Charity shopping
ADULTS OR KIDS: Both
MAKE OR BUY : Buy
TOTAL COST: Very cheap !
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You can find some great bargains and unusual gifts at your local charity shops. Not just second-hand stuff, many charity shops stock reasonably priced new items at this time of the year too.
You can also pick up cheap Christmas decorations, cards and gift wrap.
Buying from these shops saves you money, supports charities, and recycles stuff which might otherwise have been thrown away, so you're helping the environment too. Everybody wins !
After Christmas, when the children have discarded last year's toys in favour of this year's, you can donate their unwanted toys to the charity shops (and any unwanted gifts you may have received !), or make a bit of extra cash for yourself and sell them on Ebay or at a car boot sale.

a97am

Name of present? 3 Month Magazine subcription of your choice - but you actually MAKE money if you use Quidco!
Do you make it or buy it? Buy it
Total Cost? £1 per sub
Details (the more the better) Log into Quidco. Click on Entertainment, magazine subs, Magazine Group. You earn £4.80 for every new subscription - and there is nothing stopping you signing up for the £1 for 3 issues offer... So, in effect you earn £3.80 per subscription. If you wanted to, you could have 5 subs to spend your fiver limit, therefore meaning that you'd get 15 magazines over the next 3 months and a total of £19 free money via cashback on Quidco! Great eh?!!
Where possible please add a link if it's an online offer www.quidco.com

misskb

mirandamayhem wrote: »

• Name of present? The First Day of Christmas
• Do you make it or buy it?Buy it
• Total Cost? About £4:50
• Details (the more the better)

My mother in law likes daft things, and I'm going to do a bit of a 12 days of christmas thing for her, but as a one off Christmas present i think this would be funny, and very festive!
"On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree!"
So you buy A Partridge Family Christmas Card from a seller on www.play.com for around £3.50, and you then pop to Boots, or your local chemist for a nice bar of Pear's clear soap (around 90p). Go out into your garden, get a twig, attach the box of pears soap to the twig with string or gift tape, and attach the cd to the twig too. Et voila, a partidge (family cd) in a pear(s soap) tree!

• Where possible please add a link if it's an online offer

http://www.play.com/Music/CD/4-/2609970/A-Partridge-Family-Christmas-Card/Product.html?ptsl=1&ob=Price&fb=1

Out of interest... what did you do for the other 12 days??

moominlaura

Name of present? Win a million

Do you make it or buy it? Buy it

Total Cost? £1 - £5 per person (depending on how generous your feeling)

Details (the more the better) Buy a lottery ticket with either 1 line or 5 lines. Roll it up and wrap a delicate ribbon round it. Put them all over the christmas tree and when the family come round you can hand them out. At least they have a chance of winning millions!
(My family have said the same for many christmas's - Only buy for the children. But each year all the adults still get a little something from everyone and this way they dont feel left out of receiving gifts)

sunshine_shell

I sat and made my boyfriend a book of time last and included loads of stuff even helping to wash his great big truck which i hate doing lol

These ideas are great! Thanks!

alison6692

Name of present?

Windchime

Do you make it or buy it?

Buy it

Total Cost?

£4.99

Details (the more the better)
Each chime is strung with two pieces of coloured fused glass, one at the top and one at the bottom. The metal chimes are coloured to match the glass with the whole chime strung on thing nylon cord.
Each chime comes packaged individually.
This item is available in 4 assorted colours. Please note when this item is low in stock, not all colours may be available.

Product Code:
WC129

Dimensions:
Length 55cm


Where possible please add a link if it's an online offer

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alison6692

Hiya

I bought this for my neice and she loves it

• Name of present?

Calm down Boris by Sam Lloyd - Book ( with furry puppet).

• Do you make it or buy it?

Buy it

• Total Cost?

£4.99

• Details (the more the better)

Calm Down Boris

Sam Lloyd

• Product Code: CML2

• RRP: £8.99<LI class=ourprice>Our Price: £4.99
• SAVE: £4.00

Meet Boris - he's a very loving little monster! Orange, hairy and over enthusiastic, Boris means well, but he always ends up getting carried away and spoiling things. A brilliant interactive book to share with your little one!

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saveapenny

Name of present? Scarf
Make it or buy it? Both
Total Cost? £3 for 2 (£1.50 each) + time
Details (the more the better)? Buy 3 balls of Funky fur wool ...this type of stuff http://www.stitch1knit1.com/acatalog/knitting_double_knit_sirdar_funky_fur.html
My local wool shop sells it for 99p a ball but so do most markets stalls
knit 25 stiches on thickish needles
Make a box by using 2 pieces of A4 card
Trim 1 long edge by 3mm and 1 short edge by 3 mm of 1 A4 card
Then score 20mm in along all 4 sides of both cards till it looks like this http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf986327.tip.html
where the score marks met to form a sqaure in the corners cut a V shape out and fold the V on the opposite side repeat all round on both pieces of card.
The smallest one is the bottom so no need to decorate
If you have any odd bits of ribbon make a bow for the top

2 pressies for about £3.50

oojeyboojey

Name of present? Personalised website

Make it or buy it? Both

Total Cost? free + time (you can also earn money back from this)

Details (the more the better)? Set up a website for your loved one - make a personalised domain name for them and include photos, anecdotes, useful things, calendars - anything you think they'd like to have!

It's free to get a domain name and hosting for 1 year from this website:

http://www.one.com/en_GB/

The extra wonderful bit is you can then sign up to put banner adverts onto this site, and earn money from it - www.money4banners.co.uk is the one I use which pays you £10 to sign up, and £5 per month thereafter to put up 3 banner ads(PM me if you'd like to be a sweetie and get my referral link) - an alternative site is http://www.matched.co.uk/ which pays £5 sign up bonus, and £3 per advert with up to 5 allowed per domain.

This is the gift that keeps on giving!

Gambit-2003

• Name of present?
  Gentlemen's Ballscratcher:money:
• Do you make it or buy it?
  BUY IT!

• Total Cost?
  £5.00 Free Delivery:beer:
• Details (the more the better)
• http://www.play.com/Gadgets/Gadgets/4-/479011/Gentlemen-Ballscratcher/Product.html

Simply brilliant, solid pewter and well worth the money, even for a joke for xmas!
Great for those itchy moments that every guy experiences. Now you can scratch in sophistication without compromising your integrity as a gentleman. This high quality, silver coloured device comes in a lovely presentation box with the words 'For the busy male executive' on the outside and 'Gentlemen's Ballscratcher' inside the box.