The Great Christmas '05 Stocking Fillers Hunt

Edinburghlass_2

The best part of Christmas shopping for me is looking for all the bits and pieces for the stocking In fact I buy these bits whenever I see them then hide them so well I can never find half of them on Christmas Eve!

I look out for packs of things, like gel pens then open them and spread through the stocking rather than leave them in the packaging. Same with smellies. I got a pack from SuperDrug last week with five little perfumes bottles of Charlie, So etc and two lip glosses making 7 little gifts for £4 and gifts that I know my daughter will love

Tesco are great for their gift packs too and if you can hold your nerve they are usually reduced just before Christmas and even more so after Christmas, now where did I put all those ones I bought last year

Sarahsaver

this kind of thing has been mentioned before round these parts feel free to move it elsewhere if necessary.
I will be printing a helluva lot of these this year!

http://ivyjoy.com/printcards/certificate.html

Sarahsaver

oh my life that must be the quickest thanks i have ever got! xx

barksavingmad

wow what a lovely idea - thanks for sharing

pavlovs_dog

as i have just posted on the OS christmas support thread ...

for those of you who like hawkins bazaar, i'd highly recommendCITY OF MARVELS (especially the stocking fillers sections under "girl and boy" ) :T

BoltonMinx

Aldi's are doing gift-wrapped choccies for £2.99. You can also pop into your local Oxfam who have christmassy spiced Green & Black choccies for about 59p. You can also get a box but not sure how much and a book of chocolate recipes by Green & Black.

mummysaver

Hi SarahSaver, love the vouchers, will definitely be using these, will try and get the children to do them for each other too.

Hi BoltonMinx, now need to pop into Oxfam, BF loves Green and Black chocs, so these with the book will go down very nicely!

Ellie2758

ceegee wrote:

£10 for stocking fillers? Not being funny, but is that in total? I refuse to spend more than £1 per item on stocking fillers, otherwise they end up costing a fortune! I have two teenage daughters and they are always thrilled with their stockings.....honest! Some examples from last year....those large Quality Street individual chocolates, 39p each, small bottles of bubble bath from Superdrug 99p each, packs (about 4 pairs) of kneehighs from Poundstretcher/Instore 99p per pack (for under trousers), large bottles of sensual bubble bath from Boots (bogof, as well!) 99p, bought a couple of packs of really pretty socks from Bewise and put two pairs in each stocking, small hardback notebooks dirt cheap but pretty, from I can't remember where, assorted hair pins and scrunchies, bits and bobs from the aforementioned Hawkins Bazaar....oh, blimey, loads of stuff....if only I could remember it all! Oh yes, those small boxes of 4 Fererro Rocher for 99p each. Those big punch ball balloons with handles...very cheap and I am not ashamed nor embarrassed to make it known that we are quite immature sometimes and love bashing each other with them! Oh yes....we love whoopee cushions too.

Love the sound of the punchball balloons, but where do you get them from?

Ellie

toadhall

i love the ideas and used a lot last year for the various teenage girls in the extended family - scrunchies, face masks, mini perfumes, chocci,pens, pads etc.. The majority loved them all except 2 whose mother said it was tat and binned most of it this is the part of the family who have more money than they know what to do with and are horrified about money saving or freebies. so this year the rest of the family will get bits and bobs and her daughters? well i just dont know. Suggestions?

elona

Toadhall

There are classic books for either £1 or 99p each and I think most bookshops will have them.

Just let the daft woman try to say an edition of Pride and Prejudice or a Dicken's novel is tat.

She will be showing herself up for the ignorant bad mannered fool that she is!