The Great Christmas '05 Stocking Fillers Hunt

Sarahsaver

toadhall wrote:

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?

pop a note for 'them that have everything' saying you are making a donation to a Charity this year instead of present buying. Miserable buggers!

Spendless

Toadhall- or buy one of the charity gifts- you know where you can buy something like a mosquito net/tree/goat (depends on your budget) for someone in a developing country. If questioned about it (highly unlikely as its not very PC to complain about donating to charity instead of buying someone a pressie) you can always say well I would have done the goody bags like the others but I thought you weren't keen last year) and next year -if you're still giving them gifts they'll probably be grateful for the packs you've made up-or you can just go on buying a charity gift every year.

Sarahsaver

Ooh yes, got a foam puzzle in wilko's for £1, and a pack of 3 of those hideous jelly/foam lollies for 99p which i will split between my three. And as they don't usually have pop I think I will get each a bottle of cheap cherryade, panda pops or something similar;) They will be loopy anyway through excitement!

Edinburghlass_2

I was in Marks yesterday and they have some lovely packs of bath confettii, bath bombs, blamange, soap flakes etc on 3 for 2 which I bought and will split the packs between a few presents and my daughter's stocking.

Not the cheapest obviously but cheaper than Lush and they do smell delicious

catznine

Poundland have bath gift sets in, which include 2 pretty foam nail separators, a bath scrunchie, a longer bath scrunchie (the kind you use to do your back with!) and a nail brush - in pink, blue or lemon and all for £1. You could wrap these up individually and half fill up a stocking! Means I can spend more on some nicer chocs for my family!

catherineblack

Poundland do lovely truffle chocolates for ......yes, just a pound! Very yummy - bought theses last year as an 'extra' gift for anyone who we'd forgotten. Ate them ourselves in a chocolate frenzy mmmmm they were good! Great quality and the packaging didn't look cheap.

james_mac_2

Hi I too have started to get the stuff for my daughters stocking, best part of the day for her.

Got loads from a company called letterbox http://www.letterbox.co.uk/Stocking_Fillers_cat13/ There are loads of bits under a fiver.

mummysaver

toadhall wrote:

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?

Manners - not sure where you can buy these, but these children and their parents obviously require some! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Like the charity idea, give the whole family the goat - well give the goat to charity in their name - perhaps they'll get the message, though I doubt it!

Party_Wombat

You could give this site a try, https://www.thepartybasket.co.uk - there's quite a good range of little things that would go well in a stocking

pavlovs_dog

an idea that has been mentioned elsewhere on the site is a copy of their fave magazine, rolled up (and perhaps then wrapped as a cracker?)

got empire for the OH as it is full of stuff about king kong and he is dying to see the film

and if you've missed it (like i did ) try the festive fivers article on the main page for some more good ideas