To consider buying BILs three children toys from charity shop this year, or even worse

[exasperatedmummy]

giving their DD who is a year younger than ours something that was DDs.

We really are on our uppers this year and im quite peed off with xmas already. We will buy something nice for DDs but will definately be supplementing with charity shop buys - i love bargain hunting for xmas pressies and think this is a really good thing to do.

But would it be an absolute bloody cheek to do this for neices and nephews? I'm not talking about buying tatt, but buying something relatively decent just now brand new? This would mean i wont actually have to resort to buying new tatt!

That is of course also a great idea.

Salvation army is doing something similar in my parts, considering doing that myself.

OMG you can buy a camel!!!!! My DP has always wanted a camel......... I don't think i can stretch to that though - some chickens maybe

Thanks exasperatedmummy, I was in Oxfam looking for books for dd and thought the same so dsd and dd are getting health check ups and eight school books with their Xmas presents this year.

i found trhe magnet making kit on e bay for 99p so thought would be good idea and make fudge and get ds to paint the boxes his only 3.6 but loves doing things like that

yanbu.they wont even know.

update: I found MIL a really lovely ornament in the charity shop, it is really different and pretty, feel quite chuffed about it, so i need to make a new box for it, but even so....