ok ok, i will think about christmas.... NOW, stockings. last couple of years i went to hawkins bazaar and got all stocking fillers in one hit for all 4 dc, but i noticed that was all the ame stuff second time round. am i going to get away with doing ...

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yes I like it

oh sorry

erm

can you not get different stuff from the same place this year? they do have 3 billion bits of tat in there

lol

so hat do you do about stockings francoise?

can't you just find all the stuff they got last year, wrap it up again, and stick it under the tree?

in my day we got a tangerine and a Penguin bar in our stockings. and we didn't have to work down t'mine that day!

ps: i like your title

have you got a cash and carry near you we have jtf and its great for stocking fillers

hmmm, think i bought them all already.

perhaps i should get smaller stockings? i ruddy well sewed the ones we have to last forever [thud](i dont do sewing)

I am going to the magnificent camden pound shop to get piles of crud

Yes

thanks urban. i like your style, but no, have thrown most of it out by now. was all utter toot anyway.

i used to put up a pair of tights. in my brother's room. i was a bit freaked out by the idea of Santa creeping around my room at night, apparently...

What's a Hawkins Bazaar? Sounds great as the five things I have bought for stocking are already totalling over £20. That's the problem with picking up bits here and there.

is the camden one superior in some way CD? its out of your way isnt it?

naah I work there some of the time
It is magnificent
you wouldn't believe what you can get for a quid

dont blame you urban, not at all.

hawkins bazaar. is basically a great big walk in christmas stocking filled with tat. god knows how they make any moeny the rest of the year.

ah yes, the pound shop. classic. in northampton, we have the 99p shop, for all the people who are too tight to spend a pound on their packets of plastic cutlery. IT'S A PENNY!! fuxxake...

put a bag of salt in and tell them they've been too naughty for santa this year...

hmmm, maybe worth a trip to the big shmoke you think? could combine it with Visiting Family i spose...

ooh urban, i like you. you sound as bitter and twisted as i am abut crimbo now that were the do-ers and not the sit-about-and-have-all-the-fun-ers

let's swap tat/crap/crud is my thinking.

go to the toyboxes, dig out 'bits' in good condition.

we can have swapsies. cos i swear I do not want to part with another penny, to put stuff back in the two bulging boxes in my living room.

There's some bloody good stuff in there. All unplayed with by boxing day.

Yellow Moon are pretty good - bit more of an artsy crafty bent some suitably cheap tat in amongst it.

I go to the pocket money toy section in the local toyshop
then Tesco
then the pound shop
then the geeky hippy Natural World type shop
then give up and go to Hawkins Bazaar

My two (3 and 5) get

1: An annual (postman pat and spiderman)
2: A satsuma (they NEVER get the joke)
3: A pair of socks with a christmas theme to wear on the day
4: New crayons
5: Bubble bath (in naff shaped plastic overpriced bottle Dr Who and Winnie the Pooh)
6: Small toy/game (last year they got top trumps)

Is that tat enough for you ?

Like the title BTW

Mine are getting the snowman and reindeer tumbler thingummies with chocolates from Lakeland.

And some other things.

Definitely a satsuma.

And something lego-ish.

oh and M&S or Thorntons for the chocolate money

pirategirl, you are a genius! think you should start a thread and set up a swap thingy.

may try yellow moon, ta.

lol mrsB.

We have chocolate euros here in the East End. We're so continental.