Thread 9 - the one with a kink for L’Occitaine

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Thanks @Travelcrazy for the title. It really tickled me!

Greetings and welcome one and all to a friendly and joyful corner of mn - the Christmas bargain thread. Here, we share Christmas present purchases, ideas, links and discount codes, with the aim to spread the Christmas magic and joy and reduce the financial stress.

It's a very busy thread, so see the tips below for helping everything run smoothly and avoiding repetitions of Cookiegate etc al. It's a lovely, friendly bunch and I'm so grateful to each and every one of you for building such a warm, fuzzy and generous spot on mn. I know I've save so much over the years and am so grateful to all of you for sharing.

Pull up a sleigh and relax with a mulled wine and mince pie, for Christmas has nearly arrived!

@ me if you need anything or you want to let me know anything - the thread moves so fast I can't always keep up so this really helps

A few pointers to make everyone’s life easier and the thread be as useful as possible:

• It’s handy to put in bold the bargains so they’re easy to spot
• No affiliate links
• No need to place mark or post messages of hello or thanks at the start of a new thread - use the ‘watch thread’ button
• Be nice or leave

The current referral thread for sharing referral codes https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/christmas/4940918-4940918-bargain-referrals-thread-6 . Please use this rather than this page to share referral links to make the sharing fair.

To make clicks links, you set it up like this only without any spaces apart from between the website and the word(s) you’re writing: www.bargainsahoyeveryonecomehere.co.uk

Thanks @RainbowZebraWarrior for the instructions below.
To make something bold, put this star * either side of the word you want to bold (with no spaces in between)

So starhellostar would look like this.

hello

Obviously use the * not the word star

Some of the below is copied and pasted from previous years, so do @ me if the links don't work

Stock informer is a handy site http://www.stockinformer.co.uk/default.aspx?fullsite=1

Camelcamelcamel is a great amazon price tracking tool http://uk.camelcamelcamel.com

The following links compare price products including postage
www.find-book.co.uk
www.find-cd.co.uk
www.find-dvd.co.uk
www.find-game.co.uk (as in PS4/xbox etc)

I'm totally overinvested in Quality Street and I don't have a JL card or even a store within an hours drive 😂

Went RL shopping today, Harry Potter cluedo for £9 in home bargains

A cute amethyst bracelet for 99p

Also a set of Grinch PJs which weren't quite as much of a bargain but beautiful and soft

Ah thank you, it doesn't seem to work though. Could be me!

Re. Quality Street I can 100% confirm you have to pay for the chocolates. I did it last year.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

I saw some in Iceland last week, I think they were the coffee ones.
A quick Google search came up with flavours ones at JL, Ocado, Iceland & Poundland (and eBay!)

The tin holds 1.2kg so if you were to buy the individual pouches, it would cost over £20 to fill the tin.

It is badly worded, but I don't think for a second that the chocolate is free. However, for anyone like me who's had a tin bought from them years ago, it is actually cheaper. (And more so if I decided to use my £5 voucher)

The reward is definitely just them trying to make us feel 'special' in order to be able to pick just one flavour.

It's also worth noting that at this time of year, they often run out of the popular ones. I've been doing this for 4 years now and have had to pay several visits last year and the year before as its become more popular and certain flavours havent been available when I've gone in.

N.B. Iceland, Sainsbury's and Ocado among others do various pouches of coffee creams, green Triangles and purple ones for about £4 for 252g

The Lakeland sale is fairly decent as it is but they also allow you to use the leaflet codes with the reduced price too. I used one to get further discount on an already discounted heated throw. Would anyone like the £10 off a £60 spend one? I'll PM

This isn’t right, see my screenshot earlier in the day. It says ‘when purchasing a tin of quality street’, not ‘when purchasing a quality street tin’.

I’m sure a thread or two back there was someone searching for guinea pig things - I just came across this cute teddy on the card factory for only £4.99 which might be a good buy 💛🐹

Tesco has 300g pouches of quality street for £4 which will probably go on Clubcard deals at some point so JL is only useful if you want to pick your flavours.
Thanks for the suggestions of place to look for green triangles but none of them list this as an option.

I am having a reverse-bargain situation.

There have been a few Amazon bargains linked on here in the last few weeks where I wasn’t totally sure of them.

So I put them in my basket as “save for later”, thinking to myself “well, the price might go down a bit more”.

Well, the price on all of them just keeps going up, so some good bargains have been had by those who bought them!

Watching for fridges. Also need a gift for 13 year old girl around £25. Any ideas??!! Really stumped this year.
My biggest find this week is the 3 for £6 paperbacks at the works and some cute looking crochet kits at £3 there.

Tiger have one for £35 (not sure how that compares) they have a whole range of bits and pieces perfect for a girlie girl of that age
flyingtiger.com/en-gb/products/cosmetics-fridge-with-stickers-3058077

Re: the M&S Wellness Set, apologies if this has already been asked, but do they only offer the delivery option for this item? This is the first time I have tried ordering from M&S and not been able to collect the order in-store.

I think the person nailed it above who said expect prices to rise for the drop for Black Friday.

Try HELLO10 for 10% off. Not sure if there’s a minimum spend though.

I got my friend a Persian cookbook and spices from the region

Any recommendations for a family gift please. SiL, BiL and nieces (16,15,14). Budget £100-£150.
I was thinking maybe an activity they could all do together as don't get as much family time as they would like.

I know there has been mention of personalised necklaces before, but I'm after a double one. Can anyone help please?
It is from my DDs to me, but with my nickname so looks like:

Mama
Mouse

Hope that makes sense. Tatty devine do 1 but think I'd rather rose gold or silver. Thank you 😊

Piglets pantry. I used the code last year and liked them. This year I have an email

EARLY BIRD CHRISTMAS OFFER!

Get 15% off your festive orders this weekend…

Use code “RUDOLPH” for 15% off our festive treats. T&C’s apply.

Green and Blacks 400g on Amazon. If you apply the current £3.70 voucher, and happen to have a subscribe and save order to add it to (I always do in November) then it goes down to just over £7.

https://amzn.eu/d/7fUAXJ1

Yes please @CapybaraParty if it is still available.

Same for me. Very frustrating!

That's great to know thank you! Will have to try it!

Who was looking for bamboo socks?

Sock Shop have a multi buy offer on packs of 5 men’s bamboo socks which reduce to £9.95 each with free delivery if you buy 2 or more packs.

Code KEYWORKER15 then takes 15% off, So 10 pairs for £16.98 delivered.

There are loads to choose from.

Sock Shop offer