Christmas bargain thread 10 - my nan is looking for a small batmobile

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All the Christmas themed party bag loot type stuff is appearing on Amazon and ebay now. £20 later and I have filled up 3 advent calendars (we have home made ones we fill ourselves) with Christmas stampers, pop up toys and miniature dinosaurs. Ok so the dinosaurs are not quite so Christmassy .

3pigs I have 4dds aged between 2 and 7 (8 by Christmas) and I don't spend the same on them. Dd4 won't know the difference still, and dd2 will be getting an Isla bike, so I will be spending way more on her than all the others. They just don't know it! As long as their present bags look as full as each others (that's all down to clever present placement), then they are fine. I'm sure as they move into teenage years and they get the monetary value of the presents, it will be different. But then they won't be believers anymore and it will all come down to equal value.

zipzap we have stopped doing the SP shoeboxes for that very reason. When DS was younger and everyone at school was doing it I went along with it. Now he's older and can understand my reasoning.

Funnily enough we had a long conversation about it yesterday (he always traps me while I'm driving so am a captive audience :o) I was really impressed with his insight and we have decided together that we will buy stuff to the same value (realistically I guess we must spend about £10-£15 per box) and donate it to our local food bank :)

No idea about the Frozen stuff people seem to be talking about as my DS's aren't into it however The Entertainer website has stuff on sale. You can arrange for click and collect which may be better than trying to get basket full of £40 bit and bobs to achieve free delivery.

www.thetoyshop.com/Disney/Disney-Frozen/c/disfrozen?q=%3Aprice-desc%3AallBadges%3AAllReductions

Thanks ladycurd the red one was only 3.78 great teenage girl pressie

There is a flash sale at the Entertainer and code KUV5OCT gets a little bit more off though not sure how much

Wilkos had marvel comic n Spiderman choc advent calendar for £1 each that's husband n ds got they are kinnerton choc which is made in nut free factory. Personally mine will be a Cadbury or Thornton n if they are on a 2 for something offer baby will need one which I will have to eat as will be bf said baby by 1st Dec!!

Melissa n Doug animal stampers - £3
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00INUNYNE/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Colour in thank you cards n party invites 59p add on item I only got to take order over £10 for free delivery
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00G6I6DR4/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Iam what sort of bits did you buy? I'm thinking of doing bits in advent calendar this year rather than chocolate....

I got packs of stampers like these and other bits and bobs. Basically rootling through all the party bag type stuff to find the ones that sold the most for the least amount of money . these are the dinosaurs. You can get packs of mini farmm animals, arctic ones, jungle ones and so on. I was very tempted by a tube of penguins.

Last year we needed more baubles for the tree so I got them in advance and used those for the calendars. Alternated bauble and sweetie each day.

We will be at the end of another thread soon - reastie my joking prediction may come to be correct :)

worry not east I am here setting one up as I type.....

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PMCP th entertainer code seems to give 5 percent off.

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