2019 Christmas bargains thread 1

[Reastie]

Jingle those bells because it’s time for thread 1!

The aim of this thread is to share ideas for Christmas bargains and present ideas and a little bit of Christmas chat etc. I’ll try my best to do a post with the most popular links, if there’s anything specific you’d like me to add or if something I’ve put up doesn’t work please let me know in bold . Thank you

As usual no affiliate links (I’m still not exactly sure what they are but consensus was not to have them) and if we have any sites to post personal sign up links we’ll do this on a separate thread so all can post their links, I’ll do this when —I get around to it— soon.

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I'm on the hunt for a fill your own advent calendar, last year's from hobbycraft was about the right depth but looked and felt a bit cheap. I've seen a few but they only seem to have dinky sized pockets or drawers.

At The Body Shop for bank holiday weekend.

A few bargains on Sports Direct;
Colour your own Star Wars Speaker - £2.99
Frozen boom box - £23.00
Playmobil fire & ice game - 7.99

Ooh forgot this one;
Action man mug and wash set - £3.50

@Becles have you thought about making a fabric one? They can be made super easily and cheaply, and you can have varied sized pockets to slip things into!

@Mileysmiley my little one was 2 in may and loves his scooter! Also I got an chalkboard/whiteboard easel and big pirate ship for the garden (both second hand on fb and cheap!! Easel was actually free) and spent some evenings sanding and repainting, both look gorgeous now!

@lazymoz, it's WORD without the space after WORD before the bracket.

That didn't work! [[https://www.amazon.co.uk?tag=mumsnetforu03-21 www.amazon.co.uk WORD ]] without spaces at either end with the brackets.

Has anyone seen any decent offers on skateboards for teen boys or could recommend what your cool teen is using

Not to sound like a broken record but sports direct have got some skateboards on offer, not sure if they're good ones or not though

Pile of discount codes arrived with Red magazine:

-30% off first Ocado shop with VOU3048289 and VOU3848249, minimum spend £60.
-20% off HOBBS with RED19 and RED2019
-15% off Habitat with code 81518904
-15% off Cult Beauty with CBOINQ and CBYZ8A minimum spend £20
-£5 off £30 spend in Lakeland with 1261 7715 0986 5224

Wolfcub There are skateboards in The Entertainer sale - about £10 I think.

@wolfcub I don’t think you’ll get a cheap ‘cool teen’ skateboard from somewhere like the entertainer/ sports direct unfortunately.

I thought myself oh so cool hanging around with our local skateboarding gang in my teens (and my much alter years!) and they all bought theirs from proper skateboarding shops.

Not to disparage any previous OP suggestions at all of course! Depends on age / his style is he going to take learning tricks seriously on it etc.

Buying a complete set up from somewhere like slam city skates where he can change bits / replace bits if he wants starts from £80 for adult size. Like I said really depends on his age, his seriousness etc etc.

Shantotto 's advice is probably better

Got my daughters last skateboard from skatehut.co.uk. They have a big bank holiday sale this weekend and you can sign up for discount.

And @naturalblondeyeahright has much better prices than I found! Went to first place I could remember from 15 years ago!

Tea and Biscuits - thank you, what a magnificent bargain!

@Reastie smiggle sometimes do a fab sale so could you get her 24 wee bits and wrap them yourself? Or half smiggle bits and half chocolate wee things to reduce the price.

Or they’re doing a discount on buying more than one- got any friends that would split? If you buy four it’s around £22 odds each.

Place marking 😀 thanks @Reastie

From good food magazine

20% off English heritage until 2 October code heritage13 in caps

5 issues olive for £5 buy subscriptions.com/OLGF919

5 issues of good food for £5 subscriptions.com/GFT919

Or 12 issues of good food for £30 subscriptions.com/GFB919

Possible cash back on magazine subscription at kidstart too
www.kidstart.co.uk/partner/BBCMagazines.aspx

Checking in. I don’t really have any toys to get this year but I’ll be after tech bargains etc.