M&S 12 days of Christmas

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I love this each year, today I got a free 75ml hand cream. Which isn’t likely to be as delicious as the florentines I got on day one last year, but you can’t complain about a freebie!

I’m hoping for a knitwear discount one day, I’ve had a cashmere cardi in my basket for weeks.

Who can top free hand cream this morning?! 😁

I've got the light up liqueur....not sure whether it's worth going into town to collect it...or who I'd gift it too....

20% off coats today. Had a free handcream on the first day and a free pack of biscuits another, rest were discounts. No gin or Prosecco. I must spend around 7k a year at M&S, I did get the gin liquer last year though.

I got chocolate coins this year and percy pig fairy lights last year. Didn't pick them up.

I got the diffuser for free. Went to collect and they don't stock it in my store anyway!!

The MOST underwhelming 12 days of Christmas ever ! I got free chocolate coins 😂 all the rest were % off vouchers.
I spend a fortune in M&S, but would rather have had a freebie gift worth a fiver not discounts, is it really just random ?
I do have their Advent calendar and am enjoying that at least.

I know M&S is trying to be fun and generous and also to drive people in a tangerine-stoked frenzy towards the stores but I honestly think they'd get better results if they just offered all Sparks holders 20% off everything for five days and then awarded random surprise gifts at the till/check-out.

Instead of this promotion that only sets people up for an anticlimax, 10 days out of 12. It's ridiculously ungrateful of me to feel short changed with a bag of free tangerines and a hand cream - they were free, ffs! Free! - but something about this whole promotion seems to trick my brain into expecting a Mini Metro and my body weight in Percy Pigs every single day.

I think it’s been useless for me, just % reductions on things I won’t buy, no freebies.

I got 20% off coats today which is great as I'd bookmarked, in my browser, the one I wanted a couple of weeks ago.

Tried to add a Nuxe gift set with the 20% off I got on a previous day but that discount didn't work, even though brands were included in the terms.

20% of coats I won't use as the grand final and an email that I am in a larger prize draw. With all us Mumsnetter in it, my chances are small.

I actually got the Percy train, the Simple Food near St. Paul's in London had plenty.

I didn't rate the JL highly, too many competitions, similar to the Boots one.

Why can't they just give a general 20% off everything? I am sure DD needs new bras or DH T-shirts.

Pp who are getting gin, liqueurs and good stuff as freebies - how much do you spend a week/month? Is the algorithm linked to average spend x you get this, average spend y ypu get this freebie?

Two freebies and I average a £60 spend total a month. I don’t think there’s any rhyme or reason about the 12 Days of Christmas when I think of the postings on this thread. But I know there’s an algorithm with Sparks because my offers there are almost always for items I’ve bought before.

I got 20% off coats today.I'd bought a lovely coat from M&S just last week for DH to give me for Christmas so I ordered the same coat online ,got my 20% off and will return the other one.Win win.

I mainly buy food at M&S, the odd clothing item, some stuff for DH and never home or children.

But I got the same generic discounts like everyone else here. I think only the freebies are different.

Even my normal offers are fairly random outside chocolate bars, chicken and mini bites which I buy on a regular baiss but I never get discounts for other things I buy like cold cuts, fish, biscuits, dairy and fruit.

I spend about £20 a week on M&S food and buy the odd piece of clothing, this year I have probably spent about £200 on non food items. I got free handcream and EB poinsettia.

That’s a shame. Mine had loads behind the till to pick from!

The best I got was a free Autograph perfume worth £40, I went to pick it up yesterday and got the last one 😀wish I got the 20% off coats, all I got for the grand finale was a free dip 😂not sure I can be bothered to go all the way there just for free houmous (hummus?)

A chilled dip for me today, which I will definitely claim next time I’m shopping.

I can see why some people are disappointed but I’m quite chuffed overall. A free perfume which I really love and wouldn’t otherwise have tried (worth £10 though, not £40 as a PP stated), a dip to go with the M&S posh crisps I would have bought anyway and some good discounts. Bought pjs for DH and DS with the 20% discount, so saved £10 there and another few quid with the plants and Christmas card discounts. Call me sad, but I also enjoyed the door opening excitement more than I would a blanket discount.

Yes, I enjoyed it too, I was particularly excited about my £8 EB poinsettia.

I missed day 3 so didn't get the extra special prize for opening them all. what was it?

@Bells3032 it was just entry to a prize draw as opposed to a guaranteed prize.

oh v disappointing

Anyone else get a free surprise bottle of light up liqueur on their Sparks today, I did so I would check your Sparks account,

Yes, lovely surprise - no email, just on the app.
Having never had bought these before, I'm not sure which to choose.

Lucky you!

I got...

Discounts off booking shows. I did wonder whether Gary Sodding Barlow was involved somewhere along the way.

So my total freebies were zilch. All discounts, and not useful ones, either.

All winners will by emailed by tomorrow, apparently. You have to have opened all 12 doors to be eligible. I would love something, but have done OK with two nice freebies worth £9 in total so can’t complain.