It's the last Christmas bargain thread 2013/January Sales offers

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I didn't even realise the last thread was nearly at the end

As usual I'll stick the long OP in the next message, but haven't been so diligent about keeping it updated since it's so close to Christmas and it's all slowed down, sorry.

Cadnece I remember your Body Shop saga. That's awful service, what are you going to do next ?

ohhelp just had the Heston chocolate pudding and it's a Christmas pudding with hidden chocolate sauce. Am so gutted as don't really like Xmas pudding and was looking forward to a chocolate pudding. Humph.

Loads of bits on the Topshop website reduced to £1, be good for little presents or for stocking fillers for next year!

topshop link

cadnece I remember you posting about this. Thats awful service. I'm not on twitter but are they? Could you tweet and get others to tweet too?

Cedar Terrace reduced to £16 at Tesco Direct.

www.tesco.com/betadirect/sylvanian-families-cedar-terrace/211-9252.prd?skuId=211-9252&pageLevel=&sc_cmp=aff_995083

The Body Shop are on twitter and were very swift and brilliant when I received the wrong order before Xmas - resolved in no time.

boots had loads of toys 75% off today in clearance picked up
hungry hippos 4.50
mike the knight playset 3
mike figures 1.50 each
puzzle boxes 1.80
elc wooden toaster or teaset 4.50
happyland family 2.40
first smart phone 4.50
leapfrog music thing 3.50
marvel playskool figure and car 3.60

also had
imaginext dino sets really cheap
peppa figure sets
jake never land pirate figures
loads of baby toys v cheap
elc toys
elefun 4ish

this was in brighton and next to clothes not in normally sale bit. (also lots of half price clothes)

The shop Boots was open today? Wow, everything firmly closed here!

candece well I was interested in your body shop update. doesn't sound like a fab ending though.

Has anyone seen any bargainous family calendars? I saw that Waterstones had some half price but no family ones
Paper chase had lots of Xmas stuff reduced

yeah boots was open as was most of the other shops in town centre :) was very quiet hardly anyone around which was fantastic and stress free!!

I got this Bear Hunt family calendar that someone on here spotted. It's good.

Happy new year everyone. I hope your Christmas' was fantastic. My children were thoroughly spoiled.

I need some bargainous knights for my son's new castle. I've seen these on Amazon which look great, but would be even better if cheaper:

www.amazon.co.uk/Schleich-Dragon-Knight-with-Sword/dp/B00B1D7BIY/ref=sr_1_20?s=kids&ie=UTF8&qid=1388604014&sr=1-20&keywords=knight+toys#productDetails

LaTrucha that link brings up LED bath dolphins

Nix You could try elc - they have knights and monsters etc for their castle stuff.

They only have one set of troll things on offer at the moment - for £5 instead of £10 for a pack of 3 but they often are all at that price or at 2 packs for £15. I got lucky before christmas and got them for half price plus 20% off. Also got the ogre thing and catapult at that deal which my sis gave him for xmas - ds2 was so smitten with them that he didn't bother opening any more presents when he saw them, nor playing with any of his cousins and other guests, just took them upstairs and played with them on his castle

I also got him a set of scooby doo figures from b&m for about £6 (the entire scooby gang, all articulated, a bit bigger than playmobil people but fine to play in the castle with) which has given the castle a whole different dimension for playing as there could be scooby and pesky kid type adventures discovering naughty people dressed up as knights/monsters/ghosts etc. Helped by the fact that ds2 adores scooby cartoons!

Bear Hunt

I am officially exhausted with buying presents. I've had Christmas, DD's birthday and now we have Reyes, which is when Spanish children get their present. Spanish relatives have sent money for me to buy them things, and I know that DD has much less than DS, but I really cannot get up any enthusiasm for buying more toys! I can't even think what she would like, except a tablet, which is too expensive.... unless of course, you ladies have seen a...... BARGAIN!!!!!

Eco Battery Vehicles for £16.50 for children aged 10years+

Looks like great fun :)

Thanks all for replying :) Tbh I've got so much going on at the moment that I really haven't got the time or energy to do any more chasing with them, I've wasted so much time (that i havent got) on it already. I guess I'll just keep the sets for next Christmas. Won't ever be using The Body Shop again though!

On a brighter note I've discovered some fantastic sites thanks to these threads that I'll continue to use now (Pumpkin Patch, Urban Outfitters and The Book People) so wasn't all bad :)

Which reminds me, does anyone know if The Book People have (or are likely to have in the near future) a free delivery code? There's a book I've been after in their sale.

I used either WINTER or HAPPY last night for book people. Can't remember which worked!

Thanks Zipzap, those ELC ogres look great.

On Christmas day my son had his ninja turtles in there, was great fun!

Does anyone still have any ELC voucher codes available please?

I went to a larger Boots today and they had alto of toys in Clearance section. I bought

Science Museum Silly Putty £1.50
Joules Bath Crayons £2.50

Saw lots of Vtech stuff inc duck bath toy for £3.60, ELC rosebud sets

Managed to get some bargains in Gap for both DD and DS. Pjs for £6.99, tshirts for £1.99 and £2.99, tights for £2.99 and a lovely knitted dress for £11, jeans £4.99

I'm not sure my food hamper I made for some rellies with some flavourly stuff and other bits went down too well. I received a thank you letter today and it was described as 'intriguing' . That's on a par with 'interesting' and 'different' surely.