Thread 3 - the one with the speedily written title

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It's early September and we're already on thread 3 - wonder how many threads we'll get to this year! Any bets? Mine is 29!

If you have a referral link for a website, do post it on this thread

See post 2 for some (hopefully) useful links.

Linky Dobble junior two pack on Amazon for £10.99 down from £20.

Ahhhh, Robert the 🦄 He was very popular that year!

I need help.....please..... if possible... DS is 13 in less than 2 weeks, we move house in a week and I have no idea what to get him. I have lego and an ocean book.....
We are having to downsize so are clearing a lot of stuff but does anyone have any ideas on a quiet 13 year old boy not mad into football?
Any ideas where to get bedding with Frogs on? His latest obsession to go along with Panda's.
Thank you!

My dd is 13, she collects funko pop figures of her favourite characters.
She loves a build a bear (her most recent was a super soft frog!)
Posters for her room,
drawing pads and pencils (most popular last year was crayola skin coloured pencils).
Fleece blankets, she loves the primark and asda.
Oversized hoodie from dunhelm.
New backpack for school.
Over head wireless earphones, better sound quality than in ear ones in my opinion.
Board games, we have just started looking into co operative ones so have bought her the stranger things starter set and catan.
Have a look on shein ive seen lots of panda and frog things on there but you might need to do express shipping if you needed it quickly.
Or etsy sort by country and lots of great things for any theme!
Squishmallow? They do frogs and pandas. My dd loves using hers to lean on while watching TV or playing her playstation.
Or maybe an experience at a zoo? My dds favourite place is going to the zoo to see her favourite animals. We are going to London zoo in nov for her birthday as they have a baby sloth which she is desperate to see!

That would be great! I’m going to get him some beer and that book! Thank you!

@dizzygirl1 how about the Panda Alexa?

If anyone has fans of Bing Bunny to get for, my Sainsbury's had the talking soft Flop for half price at £7:50. It's about 20-25cm tall (depends if you include the antenna?) Has about 20 phrases.

They also had big soft, talking Duggees, probably 30cm at least, for £10, although he only said different versions of "woof"!

There were smaller talking soft toys of the Squirrels from Hey Duggee, but I couldn't see the price of them. They were on an aisle end.

Oh, the Flop is the one still showing in Argos for £15, if you want to have a look online first.

Frog oodie?
Frog plushie?
Fossil kit?
Fossil book?
Small terrarium?

My Thrift+ order arrived yesterday, very pleased with it all, can’t believe I paid so little for it. Only one thing (a long length wool Ralph Lauren cardigan that I paid about £4 for) smells a tiny bit musty but is in perfect condition and nothing a wash and line dry can’t fix. Luckily is was parcelled up separately from the rest of my order.

so a big thank you to whoever originally posted about it.

We have loads of Denmans …. She won’t touch those brushes though as apparently they hurt 😂 she would rather spend 20 mins looking for a brush then using one.

Shes a big baby really 😁

Etsy has a lot of bedding with frogs on. I won't link as not sure what style you are after but there is a fair amount of choice on there.

The Denman is called "the angry brush" in our house as my dc also think it hurts!
I've taken a chance on the wet brush.

Still no Thrift order here yet, ordered 30/8. I emailed them and had a return email saying how very busy they were! Looking forward to receiving it when it comes.

Was in M&S earlier this week and they had some Christmas biscuit tins

• and a light up house with hot chocolate in (like the tea ones last year). Very cute - I think it was £4.

John Lewis also had some last sale bits - I got children's t shirts and sweatshirts for £3/5

Just had my first dispatch email from Thrift! I places 2 orders but not heard about the second one yet but hopefully they’re all coming soon.

I placed 2 thrift + orders and got one dispatch email on the 9th September and the other on Monday. The first one tracking hasn't moved at all and still says yodel are waiting for it but the second one is on its way and due tomorrow. I really hope they both turn up, the 1st order has lots in for dd1s birthday 😔

My Thrift+ order arrived. Yay.
Out of four items two are ripped and stained having been described as good condition. Boo.

Other two items are ok so for still worth it but a faff to return.

@nocutsnobuttsnococonuts my yodel tracking never updated past the “we are waiting for it” stage. Both my orders were delivered probably 2-3 days after my dispatch email from Thrift+. My orders were placed on the 29th and 30th august.

@Amazonmulu that’s disappointing. I’ve just noticed one of the dresses I ordered has a little hole below the zip at the bag. Easily fixed thankfully.

Anyone else like me still waiting for Thrift order? Placed order on 30th and not had goods or despatch email.
I emailed yesterday but got an automated reply that said it can take up to three days to reply.

Hope you don't mind me posting this here but does anyone else have problems with top cash back! A lot of times it doesn't track and I never got the sign up bonus either.

@Fairyliz also ordered 30th , nothing yet . No response to my email yet either other than the auto one.

I ordered on the 30th for thrift+ and got a despatch email yesterday. Although nervous now reading all these posts of damaged/not in great condition clothes 😬

To be fair, as soon as I complained the clothes weren't as described they apologised and sent a QR code for free postage so the customer service was very good. Hopefully I was just unlucky, other posters seem really pleased with their orders

Scratch that , just got a shipped email. However Yodel tracking link says they can not find parcel with the number so maybe they don’t have it yet .

I've a request ... I know a previous poster kindly posted a suggestion for Anker power packs but I'm wondering if there are any recommendations for one around the tenner mark for DD?

My burts bees crackers have arrived. DH thinks I'm mad getting teacher gifts already but with DC3 due in Jan I really need to get sorted plus being extra cautious on how much we spend this year.

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