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

karmasprout

Name: Sony MP3 Player
Make or Buy: Buy
Total Cost: £0
Details: Switch to EDF Energy as I did earlier this year and get 5000 Nectar points plus points on all your energy bills. Use 4,300 points to buy this MP3 player and give it to your best pal!

ps you could alos buy "The Money Diet" PLUS "Thrifty Ways" for only 4,400 points, saving money on money saving books by saving money on your energy bills! A triple whammee!:rotfl:

Sallys_Savings

Name: Glass of Gold
Make or Buy: Buy and make
Total Cost: £2.50 for gold glass paint pen (but can be used for lots) and 75p for glass (buy in set to make cheaper) £1 for lotto ticket 50p for gold coins
Details ....
Decorate a wine glass with gold paint pen...simple swirls or a more elaborate art work...and could personalise it with persons name.
Then fill with gold coins, a little gold shredded tissue paper and the lotto ticket. Make up a piece of card (stick in glass) or label (tie around stem with gold ribbon) with the following rhyme. You can write on with gold pen or type out and stick on.

This pot of gold is just for you
to make your dreams come true
Good Luck and festive cheer
from me (us) to you

or there is this poem too

Here is a little glass of gold
A festive nibble too
I hope it will make
All of your dreams come true
Have a very merry Christmas
Form all of us to you
(or from me to you)

tommysbaby

Name of Present: Kiddies Carols

Make or Buy: Bit of both

Total Cost: Under a Fiver

Details: Bring some festive spirit into christmas.
By Recording a tape of your little angels singing christmas carols and/or reading christmas stories.

Send them to grandparents or family that live far away.

A sweet guesture at minimal cost.

jamtart6

Different to the usual selection box! The display in the picture cost me around £10, but obviously use a smaller plant pot, and less sweets/cheaper sweets and it can come in at £5.





Basically bought a plant pot (traditionally done in Popcorn boxes - but personally dont think it would have the stability at the base hence the plantpot, filled it with dried oasis (50p?), sellotaped my sweets to some long BBQ type skewers (Tip: bought selection boxes, 3for £5 in woolworths - made it cheaper than buying individually) and taped some ribbon to skewers and hid the skewers by placing things carefully.

Got great reviews from people ! (It wasnt for xmas, but would be a nice gift!)

Badger_Lady

Name of present? Personal Gold / Platinum Disk
Make it or buy it? Make it
Total Cost? £1-£5
Details?

Find an old, useless record (one that's been scratched to pieces and can't be used), spray it gold and make a new paper label for the centre with a picture or name of the recipient.

Ideally, mount the finished disk in a frame - voila, their own gold record to hang in the study!

You can also personalise it further by saying something like "representing a record number of hugs given in support of friends", or "a million times you've helped me out".

louby-lou-lou

Name of present? Making Memories/ Babies first christmas

Make it or buy it? Make it

Total Cost? £1-£3 bauble about £2

Details? Its my best friends daughters first christmas and i know i would have loved one of these for my lo. A simple shoe box covered in wrapping paper of choice( baby or xmas style) a little bit of shredded paper in the bottom and fill it full of photos from when baby was born to now copy of birth cert, newpaper from day born, little family tree done on the comp, fav teddy. you can get lots of things if you ask other members of the family on the quiet and a babys first xmas bauble.

alison6692

alison6692 wrote: »

• Name of present?

Unazukin - Listening Doll

• Do you make it or buy it?

Buy it

• Total Cost?

£4.99

• Details (the more the better)

Hugely successful egg-shaped 'Listening Dolls', Unazukin have been dubbed the 'yes/no' dolls. They have been immensely popular in Japan with over a million sold in their launch year. Unazakin is your special friend who loves to listen to your stories and questions!

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

CLICK :T

Just found out these can be found in HomeBargains for a mere 49P at the mo :T

mioliere

mikeypar wrote: »

Name of present? Little Christmas Tree (Real)
Do you make it or buy it? Buy it or Grow it
Total Cost? From £3
Details (the more the better)

I just wanted to tell you guys about a fantastic website which supplies Little Christmas Trees by post. This is a really good (and cheap) idea for a Christmas present for those people who you just don't know what to buy or alternatively a great stocking filler for anyone you know. We gave our 2 kids these trees about 3 years ago (from a different company), the children planted the trees in the garden themselves and both trees are now about 2 feet tall. Every Christmas we go out into the garden and decorate the trees. I can honestly say that for £3 each, this is the best and most cherished present I have ever given.

The website: www.thelittlechristmastreecompany.co.uk

Many thanks for the link. I have just ordered some trees for my grown-up sons and their families. A great idea for a Christmas present! Thanks

chuchies..x

windinthewillows wrote: »

Name of present? Electric Shock Game for four players
Do you make it or buy it? Buy it
Total Cost? £FREE FREE FREE
Details (the more the better) Someone was giving this away on freecycle - i thought it would make an ideal secret santa gift so went and got it and wrapped it up (Already I know) in a HUGE box so they have no idea what it is ....COOL EH.......

can i ask what freecycle is please..x

intheblackfinally

present? Salt Dough Characters

Make it or buy it? Make it

Total Cost? less than £1.00

Details? Make up some salt dough using flour (can even be out of date and cheaper the better in true money saving style), salt, oil and water. Then form the salt dough into characters such as fairies, pirates, buxom blondes (whatever you want to suit the receipient) or shapes such as heart plaques, house plaques etc. Bake in an oven until dry (preferably put in an oven whilst cooking dinner etc to save on fuel costs) and then allow to cool. Once cool paint your work of art with left over paints etc (any sort of paint works and if you are doing a girly design why not try mixing a small amount of glitter into the paint for a sparkly finish?). Voila a handmade item suitable for any age and made with love.
Kids can also make these salt dough characters and have great fun and cheap entertainment at the same time.
If using as a plaque or wallhanging stick a small loop of ribbon or string into the back of your creation before baking it.