Christmas 2022 bargain prequel: starting on boxing day

[Sideorderofchips]

Hello and welcome back to another Christmas bargain prequel thread!

There are already sales at most online stores so please post your bargains below!

@NaturalBlondeYeahRight i've got a £5 off £25 or a 10% off code for Lakeland if any good to you?

Oh could I have the 10% please @IsThisNameTaken thank you

@Smileatthesmallthings

Hello! Happy to find you all for post-christmas bargains. Has anyone found a WHSmith code? Looking for more yoto cards as it was definitely a hit!

Hi have a look at isaacstreasures I've recently placed a large order. They are my go to shop. I noticed that yoto books were on sale today.

I can't believe that people need to buy stuff,for next Christmas now, sales or no sales. sounds like an addiction to shopping problem.

I dont wan't to spend anything, except for food etc, until the spring, when I will wan't some bedding plants. and stuff for the garden !

Oh get over yourself, @1forAll74. Are you the poster who accused us of having shopping addiction issues previously? We've had similar before.

Just because we do it differently than you, doesn't make you superior / your way the right way.

Maybe hiding / ignoring the Christmas board would assist your judgy pants in my getting wedged up your arse so hard?!

@NaturalBlondeYeahRight

Oh could I have the 10% please *@IsThisNameTaken* thank you

Have pm'd it to you

@ThatsMySantaHisBeardIsSoFluffy Why don’t you say what you really feel? 🤣🤣 Love that response.

Dementors invading the Christmas board piss me off! You'd never have guessed, I'm sure!

Hi does anyone have an argos code or very code ( without me signing up for credit) please.

@1forAll74

I can't believe that people need to buy stuff,for next Christmas now, sales or no sales. sounds like an addiction to shopping problem.

I dont wan't to spend anything, except for food etc, until the spring, when I will wan't some bedding plants. and stuff for the garden !

I've now got most my 2022 birthday and Christmas presents purchased at between 50 and 70% less than what they'll be in 10 months time. Socks, candles, shirts, jammies designs etc don't vary much from year to year really and I feel this makes me cost conscious rather than addicted?

@1forAll74

I can't believe that people need to buy stuff,for next Christmas now, sales or no sales. sounds like an addiction to shopping problem.

I dont wan't to spend anything, except for food etc, until the spring, when I will wan't some bedding plants. and stuff for the garden !

I can see why you'd think this but it certainly isn't the case from my point of view. My kids get much better gifts because of all the help that I get from posters on this board throughout the year. I'm a single parent and spreading the cost makes things much more manageable. By not needing to stress about buying gifts in November and December because they are already bought I can do other things for treats like take my kids out for hot chocolate.

Well so far I have bought:
• tea, coffee, hot choc from Whittards 50% off (usually have long ish dates especially the tea)
• all of next years Christmas cards from Card Factory 50% off
• a ridiculous amount of Body Shop £5 body butters
• next years family Christmas pyjamas from Matalan (local store had decent stock) 50% off, plus a few other Christmas bits (Santa sacks etc)
• some clothing for the kids from Zara, Gap, Sainsburys and Asda (reductions between 20-70%)
• new towels from Dunelm which I needed 20% off plus a few novelty Xmas bits 50% off
• wrapping paper and crackers at least 50% off from sainsburys

And tomorrow I’m off into town to check out Boots, Lush and Primark. It looks a lot written down but I don’t consider it a real bargain unless there’s at least 50% off and it’s all stuff I needed or would have been buying anyway (gifts/ kids clothing etc). I also have some gift vouchers that need spending.

Oh and I also got some half price Xmas jumpers from Mamas & Papas just before Christmas and some bits from ShopDisney for next year.

I bought Denby tonight as realised over Christmas we only have 6 matching plates etc, used Clubcard points to pay!

To the judgey PP who seems to have stumbled onto this thread accidentally, some of us don't have the luxury of having the option to pay full price for presents, come December With energy bills set to go through the roof in 2022 some of us need to sale shop to stretch our money as far as possible.
Some need to spread the cost, some of us shop to help fill the unfillable void of loneliness and depression (I've been up since 2am with insomnia, the Christmas board on MN is calming to me).
Some of us were only shown love and affection through material things and therefore default to doing likewise.
Some of us use shopping to get us through a shitty looking year.
Some of us are planners and organisers and this is a form of control.
Is that acceptable to you PP?

@UsernameInTheTown hugs to a fellow insomniac

Also pp some of us are tight wads 😂

I'm definitely tight 😄 but also really like treating my family to nice presents 🎁 so bargains are my friend.

I’m hoping Sainsbury’s have some wrapping paper and cards left for when I call in this morning! Has anyone seen a nice (bargain) garland anywhere? I spotted one in Argos but it’s out of stock in any of my local stores.

I always this these threads are about so much more than just the bargains - especially in the last two years they’ve been a distraction from the pandemic. The random acts of kindness and the chat (I know not everyone likes it) are just lovely. And as PPs have said, it spreads the cost for those of us who can’t afford to spend hundreds of pounds in one go in November.

Thank you @Sideorderofchips and @Reastie for setting them up each year ☺️

*always think

Lush online has some things half price.

Christmas sweets/choc/biscuits in Aldi reduced. Check BB dates

@winkyl thank you! I checked lush online the other day and nothing, nothing left when I went shopping yesterday but just managed to get a few bits. Do begrudge paying delivery.... 'click and collect available ' not in any of the cities near me!

I've been to asda and there is not one Christmas item of clothing left in the sale. Im amazed.

Placemarking shamlessley 😂

@1forAll74

I can't believe that people need to buy stuff,for next Christmas now, sales or no sales. sounds like an addiction to shopping problem.

I dont wan't to spend anything, except for food etc, until the spring, when I will wan't some bedding plants. and stuff for the garden !

Why on earth are you on this thread then unless it's to promote sanctimonious bs.