What bargains have you got for your 2008 hampers so far?

scotrae

I found some very tall Kilner-type preserve jars with blackboard-type labels and chalks in Lakeland today, half price @ £1.49. I thought that these would be fab for filling with cookies, sweeties, toiletries, crafty things or stationery etc for gifts. Not sure if this was a one-off but certainly worth checking out.

sillyvixen

i have got so much in my spare room it already looks like santas grotto. i bought loads of gift packs of toilitries from boots 75% off will get baskets and repack them with a few cheap personal bits.

mary43

My charity shop bargains for this week:

Cloth baby box with smaller ones inside..................£1.00
Decorated hair brush (unused)..................................60p
Mocha Mug...........................................................50p
Another Mug (coffee bean decoration on it)................60p
Baby blanket (white) with embossed sheep..............£1.00
White towel with peach rose and ribbon......................75p
4 candles -look just like chocolates in cake cases......£2.00
'winter' body cream and bath oil in christmas bag.......£1.00

Total..................................................................£7.45p

Not bad I thought. Could have got more but would never had carried it home.............lol

Discount-Diva_3

mary43 wrote: »

My charity shop bargains for this week:

Cloth baby box with smaller ones inside..................£1.00
Decorated hair brush (unused)..................................60p
Mocha Mug...........................................................50p
Another Mug (coffee bean decoration on it)................60p
Baby blanket (white) with embossed sheep..............£1.00
White towel with peach rose and ribbon......................75p
4 candles -look just like chocolates in cake cases......£2.00
'winter' body cream and bath oil in christmas bag.......£1.00

Total..................................................................£7.45p

Not bad I thought. Could have got more but would never had carried it home.............lol

You always do so well in the charity shops, I must remember to pop into one and take a look at what they have

mary43

So many 'unwanted gifts' get sent to charity shops so this year I've decided everyone is having 'recycled' pressies..............baskets full of bits and pieces that weren't wanted. It's cheap and I'm trying to cost each basket out at around £6. (Gone over that with what I've got for ex foster girls christmas one though but she's worth it- spent £12 on hers.............!! -still I've spent a lot less on others so hopefully it'll balance out.

mary43

This weeks charity shop bargains for baskets:

Basket of easter goodies, candle, bath oil,
flannel and pot pourri................................£1.50 (might keep that
till next year)
White bath petals in gift box...................... 25p
Double frame,floral with decorations on........ £1.00
Bath confetti................................................25p
Blue silk gift bag............................................25p
Oven mitts (unused).......................................75p
Two cone shaped sachets of scented heather......25p

Total....................................................... £4. 25p

fesdufun

jess444 wrote: »

Mikki2d
[They also had lovely decorative dust pans and I bought four of those to make Dustpan Cookies that I saw on here.]

Hi, I have to ask - what are Dustpan Cookies.

The idea is you are baking biscuits for someone but drop them on the floor, you had no time for baking some more so you swept them up into a dustpan and give them anyway (using a new dustpan of course!).

http://organizedchristmas.com/dustpan-cookies

Stole the idea from this website. This is a different poem. The one I used goes I was in a hurry,
'Cuz time was running out.
I'd baked a batch of cookies for you,
And when I turned about,
I saw they'd fallen on the floor.
It made me want to shout!
How could this happen at this time,
When time was running out.
I couldn't throw them in the trash.
Whatever could I do!
I quickly swept them in this pan,
And rushed them off to you.

I changed it a bit to become less american and the I to us as my little boy helped make them for his teachers.

earthmother

I've managed to get some great bargains over the last few days (mostly because of this site, lol)

I've got two 'Guide to Wizards' books coming from Waterstones for 49p each instead of £11, they'll go into two Potter hampers later in the year.

A lovely Revlon manicure set worth £20 for £1.95 (the magazine freebies/offers (not subs) thread), that will go to a female birthday I have coming up. And if I'm lucky, there'll also be a free bottle of Hugo Boss ladies shower gel, which I can use in another female hamper (was a 'first order/mailing list' offer, but I don't know if they'll put it on with me having used a code already).

A couple of really nice books from the Book People sale - £2 each instead of around £10 each - a fishing one for hubby for father's day, and a pirate one for son's birthday.

Then, from the 'cheap' shop down the road - Pirates of the Caribbean lunchbags for £2.99 instead of £5.99, and Pirates of the Carribbean Megabloks sets for £4.99 instead of £9.99. Add a pirate pistol from the Woolies Worth it range for £1 (and it has the full flintlock action - hubby was most impressed ), and either a tin of POTC jellies & mallows from the Superdrug clearance shelf (£1.99, use by July) or 'pirate treasure' chocolate coins (Thorntons, although yet to track them down) and voila - one Pirate hamper that looks like it's worth a lot, for around £10 - did this once last week for a nephew, eldest saw it and wanted one, so he's getting one for his birthday at the end of the month, and I've bought enough for another nephew later in the year.

And - I covered half the costs with the profits from clothes sold through a local dress agency - yay

mary43

earth mother - well done...........what a lot of really good bargains.

Just been down town and not got so much this week........charity shops just didn't seem to have a lot other that smellies and I've already stocked up with those. But I did get

Brn.Bunny soft toy with 'Chocolate Bunny' ribbon...................50p
Black and white mug with 'chocolate' written all over it...........50p
tray style basket, cream lined.............................................50p
Candle in glass -glass decorated with 'welcome' and some fruit..40p
New striped socks with toes in........toes have hearts on..........99p
Mopod -fits onto phone & flashes when it rings........................99p

Total..........................................................................£3. 80p
(hope I added that up right...........lol)


also got some bright snazzy curtains for my kitchen.......£2.50
so all in all not bad.

mary43

Todas bargains from charity shop for baskets :

Writing set in leather case.......................1.00
Photo Album (very trendy).........................80p
Decorative olive oil bottle..........................80p
Blue mug with flowers on/matching spoon.. 1.00
Cool Foot cream................................. 60p
Almond body butter..................................40p
Bricks for baby.........................................50p
Canvas bag with 'teenage girls' on it..........1.99p

Total....................................................£7.10p (think thats right.........lol)


Not bad I thought. and for me, I got a metal flower pot.........taller than average flower pot..........painted nice sort of sage green with 'Flowers' on it.

:T