please post ideas here for cheap xmas presents/stocking fillers for children...

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what do you fill their stockings with? all sorts of ideas to lessen the cost of xmas or make it special please post here. c'mon ladies!

I always put a tangerine in, as well as chocolate coins and funny socks, then some silly wee toys from hawkins and other bits I pick up here and there like bath toys, slinkies, pens,pencils, bubble bath etc.

Go to your local wilkinsons.......

I picked up 3 packs of 6 felt tip pens 45p (15p each pack)
3 packs of colouring pencils 45p (again 15p per pack)
3 boxes of crayons 36p (12p per box)
and 3 colouring books 75p (25p each)

all that for 3 DD's under £2.....BARGAIN!!!

My dh and his brother used to get variety packs of cereal in their stockings. Started when their parents were really hard up, but was such a hit with them that it became a tradition. He still gets one - from me, though.

yomellamoHelly-it was the same in our house, only time of the year my mum ever bought them.

That's a good idea - mine only get variety packs when they go to Grandparents!

i went to poundies today and found the BEST magnet ever for my sister. she's going to roll over laughing when she sees it.

it says, 'fuck you you fuckin' fuck.'

My ds loves tools so I always get him a few from the market - things like a set of Allen keys. A spirit level was a big last last year. Post-it notes. Little note books. Stickers, Bubbles. a torch. Something noisy. Something clockwork. a disposable camera. A magic trick. a whoopee cushion.

Think outside the box - look in hardware stores and markets rather than just toy shops.

My ds loves tools so I always get him a few from the market - things like a set of Allen keys. A spirit level was a big last last year. Post-it notes. Little note books. Stickers, Bubbles. a torch. Something noisy. Something clockwork. a disposable camera. A magic trick. a whoopee cushion.

Think outside the box - look in hardware stores and markets rather than just toy shops.

I am very mumsy about stockings it gets filled with vests, socks pants - things the kids need! i do put bubbles and choccy coins in aswell though.

Perennials: tangerine, shiny shiny shiny coin (I remember the joy of getting a whole ten-shilling-piece, so I think £2 is fair approximation), bag of choc coins.

This time: old-fashioned "scraps" from Museum of London, slightly eccentric books of mini-stencils from Dover imprint, miscellanies from Baker Ross (knocks cheapness of Hawkins Bazaar into cocked hat) - I thought in particular this Christmas projecting torch gadget.

I've got a whole boxful of stuff that's caught my eye over the year - will go and rootle and report back.