Thread 9 the one with the Stollen Bike

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@ItsAllBlahBlahBlah

I'm really confused about school teacher presents. DS has gone to nursery this year and I have no idea how many TAs there are. Sometimes DS says four, but I wonder if there are more. I'm not quite sure what to do

I have done a big "staff room hamper" when I wasn't sure who DC's teachers/support team were - tea coffee herbal tea biscuits etc

I guess I could ask but seems abit wierd to bring up to me but maybe I'm overthinking it

Ah OK thanks @Chocolateteabag I jumped on the papermate pens when they came up a little while back that everyone jumped on for teachers presents but then returned them as I had no idea if I had enough 🙄 DS isn't very sure who all the people are yet

@ItsAllBlahBlahBlah you don't have to get anything!

If you want to you can just send a box of biscuits or celebrations or whatever though at nursery age. Once they get into school they have a teacher and a TA usually, possibly 2 and that's when I started individual presents. Just a token gift, I've got the £2 hand creams. Last year was the bargain Christmas candles.

@NigelSlatersXmasTaters and @Bicnod You are very welcome.

@ItsAllBlahBlahBlah Box of M&S posh biscuits for the staff room is my go to gift

And I think teachers wanting pens and gluesticks is a bit exclusive to MN personally but I could be wrong

OK thanks @NigelSlatersXmasTaters I think I will do that. I'd hate to buy 5 and find out there are 6 people or miss part timers or something (I'm a part timer and it's annoying when you miss out!) thanks 🙂

Thanks everyone I have a habit of overthinking... I blame the lack of sleep!

[quote psuedocream3]@Grrrpredictivetex If you abandon your basket, they email you with a 15% off £50 code.[/quote]
Thank you.

No worries. A homemade card to all the staff at nursery from your ds stuck to the top of a tub of celebrations is normal here.

[quote psuedocream3]@Grrrpredictivetex Just found 10% off your first £30 spend - VCLOUD10[/quote]
Thank you.

@ItsAllBlahBlahBlah

I was going to say a homemade card too - I used to be a nursery class teacher, and I still have an Christmas tree ornament one child painted for me, it goes on the tree every year. Just an mdf Christmas tree he painted and put glitter on, you could do that with salt dough instead?

Or yes, a box of chocolates - we had plenty of boxes/tubs of chocolates (because there were 3-4 of us, depending on the session, and I worked in an area that was quite socioeconomically poor), we just shared them out on the last day of term. It made it fair that way, as our mornings-only TA was in the sharing out process too.

Just got an email saying that Lovato Candles are doing a 50% off flash sale + a free candle from 6pm tonjght. I got quite a few presents from them last year and they went down a storm, they smell amazing. Did end up keeping a few for myself

Website here (sorry don't know how to do clicky links):

lovatocandles.com/

1.75l bottles of Whitley Neil gin are down to £45 from £60 on The Drop Store code ‘GO5’ takes off another £2.25 and it qualifies for free shipping so £42.75 delivered!

@ItsAllBlahBlahBlah

I'm really confused about school teacher presents. DS has gone to nursery this year and I have no idea how many TAs there are. Sometimes DS says four, but I wonder if there are more. I'm not quite sure what to do

I bought 6 Terry's chocolate oranges (more than the number of staff in DS's preschool room at nursery but thought they could share them with the baby room staff too) then got my DS to draw a picture and make a card for his key worker, and she also got some Friends merchandise (big fan) and Lindor chocolates to go with them.

@WhereTheresAHill thank you that will make wrapping up all these bloody presents more bearable!!! Gin ordered!

I've just had a catalogue for Sophie Allport with a 15% off code: HIBERNATE. It looks generic so I imagine it's multiple use.

I can't remember who was asking about retro game console recommendations (sorry!) but I saw this offer which looked good value:

2 Year subscription for £64.80 (print copy only) of Retro Gamer magazine and you get a free welcome gift of the C64 Mini Console worth £59.99. However it seems to only charge the first year at checkout at £32.40 so potentially I guess you could get the free console and first year subscription and cancel the direct debit for the second year.

www.magazinesdirect.com/subscription/retro-gamer/49610625/retro-gamer.thtml?c=BS50&

@clpsmum 😂 I love the novelty of a giant bottle too!

And potentially 13.2% topcashback too

@WhereTheresAHill

1.75l bottles of Whitley Neil gin are down to £45 from £60 on The Drop Store code ‘GO5’ takes off another £2.25 and it qualifies for free shipping so £42.75 delivered!

THANKYOU takes 10% (£4.50) off if that helps anyone. Very tempted by the parma violet gin, I bought myself a whitley neil advent last year and loved that one despite not liking parma violets.

Thanks @psuedocream3, I have ordered that for DH

Turtle doves have their cashmere neck warmers on offer at £19 through this link www.turtle-doves.co.uk/signature-neckwarmer

Apologies, not sure how to do a clicky link

Iwoot have a flash gift sale on including two kids hoodies for £18 and feee delivery

Solace jewellery has a 3 for 2 sale on now. Ordered my daughter and niece some earrings