Thread 6, where we all slurp drinks from the new Tassimo's whilst buying up the entire frozen stock from aliexpress

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Just bought the lovely bells for 64p and can use them for crafts after, and the inflatable parrot for a stocking filler to complete his pirate outfit. Thanks to all who are posting, I can't keep up with who posts what I'm buying but .

(If I buy loads of things under a pound that doesn't count as spending right?!)

Pumpkins, which bells did you get for 64p? I couldn't find any that cheap

bells

Here you go lucysmam the exchange rate makes them about 64p.

Brill, thanks very much.

I'm stupidly excited now wrapping's being discussed as well!

I've just looked at the jingle bells that pumpkinmummy just posted and spotted a link to another stockist that if you want more, you can get 1000 for $3.55 (approx £2.20) instead of 200 for 65p.
1000 jingle bells

And if you poke around there are also other bells that are more expensive but shaped like santa, snow men, hello kitty etc to use like lucky charms amongst the cheap ones

I've used the jingle bells in the past to thread onto wire and make christmas decorations, and then used those as the decorations on a parcel, with a bit of seasonal tape tied to be the ribbon of the decoration. They use up more bells than you expect - but at this price it's fine and it's a great thing for kids to do - slave labour great for their manual dexterity . I tried to be too ambitious to start with and make fancy shapes but wreaths (circles!) or hearts work far better and have the advantage of being much easier too!

I've also just spotted that you can get Tibetan silver charms really cheaply - 30 for 99cents, 50 mixed for $4 and so on. All sorts of charms but I thought these snowflake ones would be nice for adding to wrapping or for decorations... (29 for $3.52)

Nook was £79 now £29 here

Aliexpress help please!

I've decided to get DD a bundle of Frozen goodies from the apparently bargainous Aliexpress, I have the Elsa dress from Asda, can someone please recommend an Anna costume (thinking the Coronation dress) and an Olaf. I will get the baby Sven as he is mega cute.

My other mission is Princess Lillifee, DD adores Lillifee more so than Frozen, we watch the movie from Netflicks every other day but being German there isn't much about reasonably priced, if anyone happens to stumble across merchandise about a ringletty fairy princess called Lillifee please let me know!

This isn't for Christmas but I just received this - www.aliexpress.com/item/Owl-portable-heat-child-meal-package-cartoon-animal-male-style-lunch-bag/1445656109.html and it's great! I have the real backpack and next to it the aliexpress one is obviously a copy - cheaper materials and not as great a finish - but it's a lovely little bag for the price and is still cute.

Did you see the lillifee dinosaur on aliexpress kiwi? Not exactly bargainous though...

lillifee shoes £10.71 free delivery

lillifee unicorn £5.99 free delivery

I don't know if these are any use to those of you doing hampers

M&S 2 Pack Napkins were £12.50 now £3. 2 colours to chose from.....

www.marksandspencer.com/brooklyn-fringe-2-pack-napkins/p/p22273545

Mike the Knight Lunch Box (Younger Boys) was £10 now £3

www.marksandspencer.com/mike-the-knight-lunch-box/p/p22232491

Also, not Christmassy but a bargain

Diamanté Tinted Kids Sunglasses (Older Girls) were £6 now £1 (lots of others to chose from too inc boys)

www.marksandspencer.com/diamant-tinted-sunglasses/p/p22197822

Chill factor ice cream cups were reduced to £10 in Asda today. Dcs love the slushy cups and I'm hoping these are as good.

Wow, so pleased to see many people enjoying their Maps book bargains - glad I posted it here! I've gotten so many good bargains from these threads it's nice to be able to give something back.

Very excited too that I got to do some Christmas wrapping today! Off to visit relatives up north at the weekend so thought I'd save on postage and take all their gifts up with me (the benefit of being organised!).

Some freebies I've seen -
Play the recycling game at Tesco Direct and just for playing you can get 50p off coca cola, and 25 clubcard points as prizes.

Pledge Play Recycle game

free nakd bar wheat, gluten and dairy free protein bar

And some bargains too :) ...
Minecraft soft toys for just £3.09 on ebay

A LED Mini Flashlight Keychain Torch Silver 75p delivered, and a really nice piece of jewellery for just 90p delivered on amazon Silver Love Shape Triple Hearts Pendant Necklace

Disney Planes Wagon Just £6 on Tesco Direct - free click and collect :)

brian those bags are £18 in boots!!! You've grabbed an epic bargain there!

I'm looking for a cheap seagrass basket, a really big one, if anyone spies one that's reasonably priced. I've found some on Amazon but they're quite expensive for quite a small size

For anyone doing 'pamper hampers' this year, asda have a new range of shower gels in for women called 'dolly mixtures'. They have some lovely ones, rhubarb & custard, candy floss, pina colada, bubble gum, lime mojito and I think there were some more... at the moment they are £1 each but I think they will go up in price soon... I am planning to put them in a gift bag with a mini bottle of wine, a mini yankee candle and a small box of chocs for dd's teachers.

Admiral - we have six of these seagrass baskets from argos - www.argos.co.uk/m/static/Product/partNumber/8752491.htm?CMPID=GS001&_$ja=cgid:17470457553|tsid:59157|cid:199887753|lid:91624188753|nw:g|crid:49428502353|rnd:3183149969099659635|dvc:m|adp:1o2|bku:1 had them about 5 years and they've lasted really well.

details of Frozen 2

www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/frozen-2-disney-promises-short-film-sequel-frozen-fever-so-we-can-all-sing-let-it-go-again-9708195.html

Was in my local Boots today and they had a few shelves of toys reduced (mostly pre-school, had some Octonaughts and Peppa Pig stuff). When I got to the till it then knocked a further 50% off

How does it work if you don't receive something from AliExpress?

I ordered an Elsa dress and delivery was between 15 and 29 days, I ordered it on 13 Aug so 27 days so far. If its not here in next 2 days do I raise a dispute?

Anyone who is getting the bells, I found a lovely pine cone elf idea using felt scraps. I am thinking of doing a few and hiding them round the house with little treats/activities for me and DS to do together, sort of a cross between elf on a shelf and an advent calendar.

Not reduced but ikea have this fairy which could be a bargain elf on a shelf substitute, or the fairy on the christmas tree?

How much are childrens books for nook?

The seller for the Elsa dress is Vickey Li by the way so may be one to avoid!