Thread 14 - the one where we sell our souls to the devil for the illusive unicorn fingerling

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Welcome one and all, see post two for links.

Any referral links to go on this separate thread please

Still after a Lakeland code!

chicaguapa, how about a bar of chocolate to make up the Secret Santa, one of the filled Lindt ones or one of the smaller specialist chocolate makers.

@balalalala what does SIL like? I’ve got one of mine a foraging course, taking MIL & FIL to G4 Christmas concert in local Minster as their present, have bought unicorn gin before, really nice apron, maps with hobbies from Atlas & I (also good for wedding presents), leather make up bag, perilla alpaca walking socks (amazing), sheepskin slippers etc

Thanks @dubious - it's a fiver each, choc and a note would have been good but unfortunately can't get chocs! I have all girls so no idea what boys are into and especially as I don't know them at all!

Honestly, if you want a fingerling for £14.99 just go on the Toys R Us website at 5-6am. They have stock every day, it just goes quick! So many people I've told about this have got them this way! Seems to be different colours available each day

@Casablanca78 Think it was you who shared it, and we got our purple one this morning at 4:40am!! Thank you!

Boys in junior schools round here want fidget cubes, you can pick them up cheap

Benefit Make Up - where would be best to buy & any sort of offers ? It is on my goddaughters (she is 16) Santa list (!)

Thanks @minster they sound like some good ideas. She's a bit of a tricky one. She likes 'nice' stuff but is in a fortunate enough position to buy anything she needs so I often feel like what I get is hit or miss...

Thanks Dubious but I did that last year and the DC haven't let me forget that I made them go to school in Christmas long-sleeved T-shirts on Christmas Jumper day!

@bunbunny, wait4 is right, it's Weds this week until Sun, I think (19th rings a bell).

I've got a reminder on my phone to go on Weds once I've put DS to bed. I'm only swapping £20 for £40 TTD wine and getting 2 x prosecco, 2 x rose and 2 x white. I've decided not to go overboard. I'll be buying cider (paid for with straight Nectar points) and beer (from Booths) on top of this, plus we already have some vodka in the house. We also have our free M&S red wine for ordering food before a certain date. That'll definitely keep us going!

Wed 15th - Tuesday 21st
For Sainsbury’s double up
Most stores you have to spend to within 50p to use the voucher so take that into consideration when exchanging (so for my £20 toy voucher I’ll have to spend £19.50)

Thanks to the previous poster that mentioned the stompeez deal
Ordered two pairs of stompeez, with 2 sets of play doh included for just over £10

Initially ordered the kitty ones, but as they were out of stock, the customer service team changed it to the pink puppies ones, and included another free set of play doh!

I'm spending £1.75 more, I think. Small price to pay for 6 bottles of wine / prosecco though!

And last year they gave us £10 back in points for every £20 we swapped, so even more of a bargain!

Lidl have some really nice looking wooden toys in today including these wooden marble runs for £11.99! And playfood sets, 2 for £10. Unfortunately I had the dc with me so will have to pop in tomorrow after work to pick up bits

Llamacorn -if you don't want to give cash/vouchers - I find the 7-12year old boys I have to buy for like pants M&MDirect have 2 pairs of boys Penguin Underpants for £5 - their 9-10 is on the large side
or
these ones in red are in 11-12 depending which one is the cuddlier size

Don't forget to go via Topcashback too!

sorry - @llamacorn
meant to add - "cool" pants seem to get more and more important at this age (for some of them at least!)

And you get to say/write "sorry about the pants present" - which will earn you a pre-adolescent eye roll

hashtagelfie thank you for posting the marble run! My dd picked some marbles yesterday when we were on a day out and I was looking at marble runs this morning. The wooden was is lovely and much more pleasing than the plastic ones.

The v tech phone which you can use to text - does anyone rate it? Dd1 suddenly decides this is something she really wants but at 80 quid it’s a big ask

Got my amazon beauty box today. Not sure how to redeem the £15 off further purchases but I'm going to give it a go to get some Pixi Glow Tonic.

@lumpit I've sent you a pm with a Willoughby book code.

@Avoca76 with stickers and toddlers, I peel off the waste then they can use them on their own- just thought that tip might help you out!

Got my amazon beauty box too. Bit confused as to how to redeem the credit.

Hi are the fingerlings on eBay and Amazon not the original - they look the same and its selling for £10.60 - I'm probably missing something aren't I?
Thanks

beaLola HRSF-ZRBB gets £10 off a £70 spend (today only) - there don’t seem to be many decent benefit codes around, not sure if one of the big department stores will have something better around Black Friday?

We had a wooden marble run and it was a pain! If the pieces actually fit together great but if they're just blocks the slightest movement means it won't run.