Thread 4 - the one with holy flaps

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Here’s Barbarara’s instructions from last year on doing clicky links:

Open double square brackets
No space
Paste link
Space
Name of link
No space
Close double square brackets

Like this
[[www.amazingbargains.com bargain ]] but with no space after/before the brackets.
If I do it again without the extra spaces only the word bargain will appear in blue

For more links etc see message 2

If any link doesn’t work or you want to add something please let me know by @ing me

Wheres the dinosaur book is down to £2.50 today. Others available for same price or £3 including unicorns, sloths etc.

where's the dinosaur

@Isadora2007 worst case brown paper and nice ribbon.

Brand Alley have some good deals on F1 clothing etc:
adult clothing
kits clothing
F1 accessories

Cute marshmallow toppers

Matalan had some good discounts in store today.

Mens scarves & gloves reduced from £10-£12 to around £1.50 each & last years Christmas stock with various deductions.

Scarves & gloves might be good stocking fillers for older teens.

Also The Range were unpacking their new Christmas stock! Yay!

@thelegohooverer, thank you, I messaged them on FB and the guy is sending me a clicky email.

Allbeauty have a further 25% off their outlet with MUSTHAVE code. I can vouch for them for skincare and toiletries.

Joining late this year on thread 4!! For anyone with tweens\teens Sass and Belle have a few stocking filler bits in their sale. My main buy for DD this year is a Fjallraven backpack. No luck with any discounts as yet but if anyone sees any I'd love to know.

I'm looking for magnetic tile toys, Magformers or similar own-brand. Anybody bought any that they were happy with? Amazon is a maze of contradictory reviews and I just want to buy a set that works.

I too got a dispatch email from Dunedin, so fingers crossed there lovely items.

Word of warning about Sass & Belle an item arrived damaged and so far their customer service has been poor and still isn’t resolved. I will be contacting my card provider if it isn’t sorted by the end of the week. I won’t be buying from them again.

Pound toy order arrived very happy with that some great stocking fillers for DS.

@cactusForever we got magformers brand new from eBay. I absolutely love the space set, it has lots of cards to help play. My 3yo likes telling me which ones to make but I think as he gets bigger he'll use the instruction cards more.

@ScoobySnacker

Joining late this year on thread 4!! For anyone with tweens\teens Sass and Belle have a few stocking filler bits in their sale. My main buy for DD this year is a Fjallraven backpack. No luck with any discounts as yet but if anyone sees any I'd love to know.

Keep an eye on ASOS. I think they have them and regularly do 20% off sitewide.

It was the space WOW set we have. It is pricey but the magnets work great. I havent used any other brands to compare though.

@ScoobySnacker keep an eye on Urban Outfitters for Fjallraven bags, they regularly have them for 20-ish% off, and often have stackable codes for additional % off. I've had a couple for about £50-60 before now.

Have checked and there don't seem to be any at the moment but they definitely had them not long ago and I know their sales come up regularly.

@ScoobySnacker it depends on which colour you want. The cheapest I could find for DD was surfdome with 10/15% new customer discount (can't remember). UO and Asos often have a 20% discount too but not as many styles available.

In Wilkos today they had those Bic 4 colour pens half-price (so £1 for the original ones or £1.10 for the metallic ones) and Tippex pens and corrector ribbon dispensers half-price (£1.20ish) ...... good stocking fillers for students.

They also had loads of random stuff in the reduced section which will probably vary from store to store . In ours there were 2 cages of stuff, one of which had baby toys and the lap trays for their fake Lego.

Oh, I meant to ask if anyone can remember the name of a website I saw on these threads last year.........

It seemed to sell random stuff but lots of kitcheny homeware items - colourful plastic bowls, salad servers etc . Prices started at less than a pound for some things like novelty bookmarks, stationery. Odd other things too like scarves and hats, pet accessories but not a wide range of those things IYSWIM

It was probably end of range stuff that they buy in and sell off cheap.

Sorry it's a bit vague!

@WineandDine @999caffeineplease and @WisestIsShe thanks for those sites. I'll keep a look out !

Found these bath bomb type things in Primark for £2.50 each. There is 4 surprise bath products inside. Great for stockings xx

Thanks "@DaisyChops* it looks like I need to chase them up, thought it was too good to be true!

@CompleteBarstool was it the clearance shed (or something similar to that!)? I got some crazy bargains from there after seeing them on here - I remember going through the site thinking that’s good, that’s a bargain, that will be useful, that will be fun... then realising I had £200+ of odds and sods so needed to go through my order 3 times being progressively more ruthless to ensure that I wasn’t getting stuff for the sake of it and that everything had a definite recipient or purpose in mind!

Which reminds me, had been planning to check what they have in this year - haven’t dared look in until I could legitimately say I am Christmas shopping!

@wibdib you star, that's the one!

I can't believe you got it from my description!

I'm off for a browse now

Some good stocking filler Harry Potter bits at The Works

@CompleteBarstool It’s only because that’s exactly how I was trying to describe the site to my sister a little while ago when she was saying she needed something that was something I’d also bought from them last year

I also mentioned it needs a warning sign as it’s so easy to think oh I’ll just have one of these and one of those and end up with a £200 basket

@woodwaj those snowman things were in Poundland last Christmas

Just a warning, lots of reviews on Google saying the clearance shed is not honouring orders despite taking money....