OS Christmas Support thread & timetable

Chocmonster7

Another thought for the "hampers" is to decorate cardboard boxes with wrapping paper or use the small wooden fruit crates you can get free in many supermarkets. Saves the cost of buying baskets plus they look good for male presents!

Sallys_Savings

Chocmonster7 wrote:

Another thought for the "hampers" is to decorate cardboard boxes with wrapping paper or use the small wooden fruit crates you can get free in many supermarkets. Saves the cost of buying baskets plus they look good for male presents!

Thats what I do too, I have two dark green cardboard boxes (had boxes of mushrooms in) and are just the right size.
If you use brown paper, luggagge label and twine to finish it off it looks really rustic rather than moneysaving

mrs-moneypenny

when i was in the local supermarket this morning they were putting some new lotto scratchcards out they are £2 each but a christmas themed ones, i thought they might be a nice idea in homemade christmas crackers.

Girl_least_likely_to

Chocmonster7 wrote:

Another thought for the "hampers" is to decorate cardboard boxes with wrapping paper or use the small wooden fruit crates you can get free in many supermarkets. Saves the cost of buying baskets plus they look good for male presents!

Thanks for this, I was wondering what I could use for my Movie-night hampers for B&SIL's. I have a bottle each of red and white, bag of popcorn, tube of cadbury's snaps (all bought on some kind of offer yesterday at Tesco's ) and will buy a DVD rental (through quidco ) nearer xmas. So with the bottles the hamper will be quite heavy and a regular wicker basket may not be sufficient. So, I'll pinch a couple of the wooden crates from Mr T and do the rustic thing. Cheers :T

tiff

I've never seen wooden crates in supermarkets, will keep a look out for these.

Girl_least_likely_to

tiff wrote:

I've never seen wooden crates in supermarkets, will keep a look out for these.

I'm imagining that exotic fruits will be in them. I'm thinking I may have to go upmarket and pay a visit to Sainsburys or Waitrose :rotfl:

PaleScene

tiff wrote:

If anyone is looking for small baskets, Lidl will have some in on Mon 16th

http://www.lidl.co.uk/uk/home.nsf/pages/c.o.20061016.p.Wicker_Basket.ar6

I was looking through the Traidcraft Fairtrade catalogue today and they have a three pack of really nice looking baskets for £8. So if you were going to make several baskets up, this would be a good ethical purchase working out at only £2.67 a basket.

Chocmonster7

Girl_least_likely_to wrote:

I'm imagining that exotic fruits will be in them. I'm thinking I may have to go upmarket and pay a visit to Sainsburys or Waitrose :rotfl:

Morrisons often have them, try asking in the fruit & veg department, if not my local one puts boxes near the tills so people can use them to take stuff home in instead of bags.

Over the past couple of years in the run up to Chrtistmas Netto have been selling small crates of satsumas for under £2. You end up with loads of fruit and a box which makes a nice base for a present!

full-time-mum

Just using economy foil to wrap a birthday present. Its useless for cooking with as it tears too easily so I'm using it up in other ways.
Just wondering whether it works out more economical to buy than wrapping paper, unfortunately, I don't have the length and price to hand. It is quite narrow for wrapping paper but small presents look good and I bet toddlers would love it as it makes their presents all shiney and rips easily.
Nothing worse than having to open a child's present for them because the paper is too thick to tear and there is far too much selotape!

nicki_2

Chocmonster7 wrote:

Over the past couple of years in the run up to Chrtistmas Netto have been selling small crates of satsumas for under £2. You end up with loads of fruit and a box which makes a nice base for a present!

Thanks for this info... the rate we go through satsumas I'll still have to buy 2 crates :rotfl: