Xmas can be cheap and fun!!!
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Topic: Xmas can be cheap and fun!!!
Posted By: BaAsKa
Subject: Xmas can be cheap and fun!!!
Date Posted: 17 December 2007 at 8:20pm
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This year i have thought long and hard about how to save money on xmas as we have gone all out in the past and its been for ning really!,,im so happy to say that i have done so well this year!! (well i think so! lol).
Heres the deal - We bought Bay a big boy bike off TM for $40 which is normally $200!! it had rusted screws, scratched up frames and flat tyres so DH (being the MR fix it that he is  ) touched up the paint and buffed out the scratches, fixed the tyres, polished up the crome and bike and replaced the screws and it seriously looks like a NEW bike!! (must put a photo up!), i also bought a set of 10 plastic jars for $1 off TM) and made heaps of playdough and bought a 100peice set of cutters for $10! from TWH, got him a new lightning McQueen (LM) tshirt off TM from a parallell importer for $8, a new LM bag from the same dude for $9, a new LM minkee blanket from the same dude for $15, some spiderman jandels for $4 from a paralell import shop in whakatane,
For Astin i had bought 2 big playskool toys NEW off TM a while ago still in packaging and put them away for xmas! and i went halves with my MIL to buy him a playskool discovery dome, I bought my BIL 30 second hand golf balls for $6 from TM (hes into his golf!)and prettyed up an box full of lollies with the golf balls in, for the folks and sister and SIL we bought those sets of photos blocks off TM and printed some neat photos for 15cents each! Ad i also bought this HUGE box of lollies and goodies which included 24 xmas jelly pops, 2kgs of chocolate, 100 golden coins, 100 jafas and a whole lot more all for $30 and the dude threw in heaps of extras and that was from a food distributer! , that filled all the stockings ten fold! and made lovely lolly bags for every family member! the neices and nephews all got a brats, thomas and bob tshirt from that same TM dude. ALL IN ALL - VERY PROUD OF MY BUYS!!
anyone else done great things with limited funds for xmas ???? |
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Posted By: BaAsKa
Date Posted: 17 December 2007 at 8:21pm
gez that was long sorry!!!
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Posted By: Brenna
Date Posted: 17 December 2007 at 8:34pm
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Well done!!! -------------  My beautiful 2 girls...nearly 4 and 13 months
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Posted By: meow
Date Posted: 17 December 2007 at 8:34pm
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I'm sewing Christmas presents (should probably get off here and finish them!) for most people in my family. Making some homemade baking in a few days to go with some presents.
In the past I have made a calendar with pics of DD but this year I didn't have as much time. It worked out quite a bit cheaper than getting it printer professionally, but took soooo much time to do, including binding it myself! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Bumble
Date Posted: 17 December 2007 at 8:42pm
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Last year I made cookies for all of the family. Took a while tho!! LOL
Well done to you for looking for the bargains and thinking outside the square! ------------- formerly known as "Bee" Ethan ~ March 2003 Big 6 year old school boy! Micah ~ Aug 2008 ~ Smiley pants who loves telephones! |
Posted By: BaAsKa
Date Posted: 17 December 2007 at 8:48pm
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hehe me and Bay made xmas cookies for our xmas eve family secret santa night
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Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 17 December 2007 at 8:58pm
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we bought up on FP in last years boxing day sales....and in the buy two get third free WH one a few weeks back...
pulled out all her toys and pressies last nite - sufficc to say her santa sack which is 5 foot high and 2 feet wide will be filled and still a double bed worth of stuff left over....SPOILT is spelt ELLA this year!
glad to hear you got the discovery dome...Ella loves hers...cannot work out where the heck the doorbell music and chime comes from tho...LMAO!!! |
Posted By: BaAsKa
Date Posted: 17 December 2007 at 9:12pm
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LMAO!! now im ganna go hunting for where the chime comes from now! lol
Thanks to Vannessa we got it sent all the way from CC dunno what it is about them!? but i love them!
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 17 December 2007 at 10:07pm
| we are building the boys a train table - still under $100 at the moment, but we might polyurethane it - so another $20 perhaps. But still a lot less than the $300 in shops. Lewis is also eyeing it up for a "risk" table. |