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

HelskyB

hey, me again, few more ideas...!
Play.com has a massive sale on at the moment, loads and loads of dvds, music, books, calendars etc etc for a fiver with free delivery.
http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/3-/110800/2-/Promo.html
redhouse.co.uk is a brilliant website that has loads of fantastic books really cheap, again with free delivery. Great for the little ones, for example In The Night Garden; http://www.redhouse.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_10151_18251_89689_100_17605_17605_category_17605
which is at £2.99 (rrp £6.99) and loads more - i have bought loads of xmas presents from here.
photobox.co.uk has loads of good gift ideas, just upload your pics and you can get keyrings for £4.99, fridge magnets £3.99 for 2 or last year i got photo stickers (£1.50 for 16) of my kids looking christmassy and stuck them on blank cards (whsmith £10 for 100) for my personalised xmas cards. http://www.photobox.co.uk/gifts.html

HelskyB

ooo got another one.. how about getting a terracotta plant pot, paint it a lovely design, either a nice cath kidston-esque spotty one (looks fab) or stripes, kids handprints, or even let the kids paint it, fill a bag of soil and pop in a couple of bulbs, wrap it all in a nice bow and you have a personalised planting kit!

purplejo

Name of present: Music Cd
Do you make it or buy it? Make it
Total cost: Free (blank CD 'borrowed' from work) or about £1
Details: On the CD burn music that is special to that person. Me and hubby had been together for 10 years, finding a present that was different (and cheap) was hard, so I decided to set a challenge, we had to give one present that we had made ourselves. I sat down and went through all the music that meant something to us in the 10 years that we had been together, so I started with our song, cheesy I know but I had to start somewhere, and then took it from there, thankfully I had most of the music on other discs, but I did have to borrow some. Great present that went down really well.

HelskyB

how about making a charlie and lola activity book for the kids stocking? http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/charlieandlola/colourandmakes/activity_book/
I made this with my kids but you could also do it for nephews/nieces/grandchildren etc and they will love it!

liz_g_3

Name of present: produce basket
Make or buy:make it/buy it
cost:£2-£3
Detail. i use hedgerow berrys ,apples from neighbours ,vegetables from the garden to make jams chutneys and sloe gin throughout the year . recycle bottles and jars to put them in .Then buy cheap baskets from charity shops or car boot sales along with ribbons or fabric to decorate them .You can also make sweets to go in or biscuits .I did them for the first time last year and everyone loved them.

Liz

bonar

for all you scots out there


NAME Angus the bull membership(he's the mascot of aberdeen football club)

COST NOTHING, ZILCH, ZERO :T

Go to the aberdeen football club website and click on the links, e-mail your childs details and you receive a FREE angus the bull t-shirt and signed letter.
this is followed by birthday cards etc.

my son recieved his today (but I will be sending to my nephews as part of their christmas) t-shirt is quite good quality (also came in padded envelope so can reuse for my amazon sales)

STAND FREE

Jacquie_H

Hi Martin
I am entering the competition. The RSPB are selling little lapel badges for £1.00. I have seen them on offer at tourist information offices. They will make really great little presents. They are in the form of British wild birds, enamelled onto gold-coloured pins. The kingfisher and swallow are particularly nice in my opinion. They are also great to post, so if you have relatives or friends who might be missing dear ol' Britain in December, why not send them one of these?

marty_

• Name of present? Custom designed T-Shirts
  
• Do you make it or buy it? Make It
• Total Cost? about £3
• Details (the more the better) Buy some T-Shirts from Asda/Tesco (£3 for 2) and buy some Iron on transfers (eg from WHSmith for light coloured material here or for dark here) 1 sheet is used per T-Shirt (or if you are thrifty like me you can put 2-3 designs per page) so you can make many from a pack. Then think of the design you want - could be a photo, a caption or sentence, any other picture or any combination. Then create it - its not tricky, just use a graphics editor or word processor (eg Word) - or any other software you are familiar with (even a spreadsheet!) just like you would if you were making a poster etc. Then print out and iron on. Easy, cheap and effective - great for 'Office secret santas' etc.
  
• Where possible please add a link if it's an online offer

Econimiser

Name of present? Change the World for a Fiver: We are what we do!
Do you make it or buy it? Buy the book
Total Cost? £5 (they lose money on this but hold true to their values)
Details (the more the better) A creative, humourous, thought provoking and inspirational book. Ideal for someonewith everything. A bit like Money Saving Expert all the little actions add up very quickly.
Where possible please add a link if it's an online offer
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Change-World-Fiver-Are-What/dp/1904095968/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/203-1344135-3321557?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193850853&sr=8-1

Ca1vados

Go to Car Boot Sale, buy World Globe, preferably with a light in.
This makes a wonderful night light and is a great way of explaining where the child lives and all the places that come up be it holiday, news, school history, geography or what. Usually available at Car Boot for £2 or £3

Stamps , you can buy a big big bag of assorted stamps or themed stamps - animals, trains, famous people and etc. £4.99 will buy lots. Again a wonderful present helping with history, geography and a possible interest for life.

Car Boot again - sort through every stall - I bought a big stamp album, the slot in sort for - YES 20p and it must have had 200 stamps in it.

Think about this, I worked on a swimming pool installation for a man who had turned his hobby of stamp collecting into a very good business. He was driving a Ferrari at the time. You could be setting a child up for life.

Regards

Ca1vados