Anyone got a birthday christmas gift cupboard on the go all year?

victoriaplum1

MIne si getting fuller by the day cos I keep finding big bargains too good to miss, will prob be full by Summer, will need to find another cupboard!

tsstss7

me too started following boots thread and now have lots of freebies for the present box! Also buy reduced stuff though the year and there is always more from jan -april.

ang7988

me too! I got most of mine at Trafford Centre Boots when they were having 75% off everything, staff were just handing them out of boxes cos they hadn`t the chance to stack the shelves.:j

feather_2

Yep - well, not a cupboard, more a pile of boxes... Got into a bit of a problem with a credit card one Christmas, now I try and spread the present buying across the year and take advantage of sales etc. Have learned one lesson, though: keeping a note of everything I've bought, otherwise I can end up buying too many presents for one person. And it can't always be kept for the following year, especially if it's something for a child of a particular age!

Uniscots97

I started out with a couple of drawers in the dresser now its progressed to a cupboard. I pick things up as I see them, especially things like Radox for a quid (Tesco's last week) and Nivea Q10 for 1.80 (Tesco again) as these things are perfect for gift hampers.

mary43

My collection of stuff from the charity shops has sort of taken over the spare room...............can hardly see the bed, plus floor............its full of baskets ready to fill once I've sorted out who's having what.
I'm trying to work it so I'm all done by August leaving me a bit of 'stress free' time pre-Christmas and a few quid to spend on me................lol -least thats the general idea.

jak

I have just started buying all year round this year. I've already noticed the difference as the stress is taken out of the present buying. I don't have to rush about at the last minute which is fab! I've got nearly all my christmas pressies for family and friends so far this year and have only got 3 more family birthdays to go which is fab. I've an old zip up blanket bag which is kept under the bed for presents.

jackomdj

I have about 8 huge boxes in the loft of Xmas presents, then I have a box with DD & my neice's birthday presents in the loft and my top box is full of birthday presents.

I very rarely pay full price for a present. I have a full list of who I have to buy for & what I have bought, the original price & what I paid! I also have quite a few childrens presents ready for the parties DD gets invited to, this year mostly for 3 and 4 year olds, as that is what age DD is.

Little_Chicken

I've always got a cupboard on the go. Another Bootser. This year I've bought some baragain baby bits too as all my friend seem to be popping them out at the mo. LOL

NBirdy

And another Boots 75% sale shopper here! Lots of 5am starts mean I have 8 or 9 huge boxes in storage, mostly full of toys. I have dd's xmas and birthday presents for this year and next! (she's only 1 so don't have to worry yet about her requesting anything specific )

I have an inventory of what's in each box, what age range it's for and how much it should/did cost. When it gets near a birthday, I tell dh what thing to get from which number box, and make a note on the inventory of who we gave it to and when. Everyone's getting much better gifts from us than they would have if I had to shop for them at the time.

mspig

This my second year of having a birthday/chrimbo pressies cupboard and with 12(soon to be 13 nieces and nephews) i need it.
Got most of my things from argos clearance.