What have you purchased today for Christmas?

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Now that we're well on the way to Christmas I thought we could share what we've purchased in preparation for the big day!

I love writing down what I've bought to keep my mind organized and I also reading what everyone else has bought too for ideas and inspiration.

Today I've bought
Festive cutlery holders
Kids festive pyjamas
Personalised cheese board for my step dad
80 Xmas cards for the kids to give to their class mates
And I also found a festive decorated pouch of dog treats for our dog (doesn't go out of date until Feb 2020 either 😊)in my local supermarket this morning!

Oh and I ate a whole chocolate orange intended for a stocking - feel a bit 🤢

One bit of Lego for DS 11
A few kilner jars to make gifts and a big bag of diams from ikea to get me through the season!!!
I need to give myself a kick up the bottom I have a huge family!!!
😭😱

A Ball Pit, Balls and Tunnel for DS9mths from Great GP.

A Football Kit for DS11 from Great GP.

Santa Print Joggers and Top for Baby DS and a Christmas Jumper for DS11.

2 books about the royal family for my mum and 2 rolls of white paper.
I'm going to try the idea of putting the kids presents in a pile of boxes to look like snowmen. I've got the boxes all organised.

Today, (well it was Monday) I bought the remaining stuff for my mum...

Books from The Works
M&S scarf
Ambi Pur 3volution plugins (currently half price in Tesco's for £2.50 each)
Yankee Candle bundles from Groupon
Thornton's Dark continental
3D Snakes & Ladders
Slippers from Debenhams

And then quite a few tins of biscuits from M&S on offer for £5, a musical Christmas tree shortbread tin, another gorgeous tin with toffee shortbread and a couple of tins of their Belgian biscuits which I thought were £15 usually but were only £10.

They are out of stock on the Snowflake Gin, desperately wanted a couple of bottles but if wasn't to be.

Hornby Hogwarts train set
Nerf gun
5 playmobil movie sets
Rizmo
Lumies
Snow pal
Nerf fortnite
Schleich crocodile
2 animal sleeping bags from tkmaxx
6 animal onesies from m&s
The floor is lava book

Yesterday

Billy Connolly book for aunt
Flashing hula hoop
For dd

Sure there was something else but can't think what

@thaegumathteth where did you get the flashing hoop

@FthisS amazon

Chocolate - shitloads - from B&M. Mainly for stockings and hampers etc.

Oh also some water bottles and pencil cases from Typo as there was 40% off and free delivery.

Among other things, for Gds (3) an Excitable Edgar - dragon from the JL Christmas ad. They were just putting a stack of them out while I was queueing to pay in Waitrose.
He's very cute and cuddly.

Stocking fillers:

Beard oil for Hubby

Blox, a hotwheels car and bath jelly for DS

For DS (7)
Nerf set with target thing
Magic set
Goo jit zu
Jenga

For DD (5)
Crayola activity books x2
Dinosaur activity pad
Space activity book
Pack of washable felt tips
Buckaroo
PJ masks owlet turbo thing
Desk and chair

That’s the bulk of the kids stuff done. DS also probably getting a tablet but I’d love to just get him toys!

I was about to say I bought cards on Sunday but then I saw the date of the first post

3 sets of fake pearl fairy light things from the pound shop, going to use them along the windowsill in Lounge

For advent/ 2 calendars from Tesco
Christmas earrings

Need to find a decent Christmas jumper for my daughter aged 14

Air fryer for a present

A life straw for dd9 (she is desperate for this).

I have bought a few things today:

• Christmassy themed books for cousin’s dc
• new Jack Reacher book for dh
• nano blocks dinosaur set for dh
• body spray for dh (special offer in boots, cheaper than the gift set of the same)
• 3 Star Wars force link figures for ds reduced in The Entertainer
• Nando’s and M&S voucher for extended family
• Private Eye annual for dh
• Christmas jigsaw reduced to £1.40 in The Entertainer

I think that’s it.

@whattodo2019 ASOS has some nice ones as I’m looking for my 15 year old and she doesn’t want one too “tacky”

Today I've bought:

A bottle of Chambord
2x Cadbury's chocolates for our Christmas tree

Both were on offer at Waitrose.

I went to Lidl for sensible stuff and ended up with

Dark chocolate oranges (£1 each)
Stollens (one marzipan and one poppy seed!)
Strawberry candy canes for the tree
A penguin doormat (don’t ask!)

..and launched a paypal claim for something that I thought looked cool for the DC but the vendors have disappeared without trace

Whattodo - have you tried Qwertee? They have (offically sanctioned by my teenage DC) cool ironic Christmas sweater/sweatshirt designs. DD is even wearing the one DS handed down to her!

A parfume for dm and wallet ninja for df