The one where there’s 20 days til Christmas

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Posting on behalf of @reastie hope you don’t mind 🎄 🎅

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
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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)

What was the sock shop loungewear deal?

Has anyone had a refund from beauty outlet the Wizard of Oz set?

Minecraft lunch bag and water bottle £10.49 deal ends in 15 mins though

@JamJarBinx
That’s a great idea thank you!

sorry to be that person but I’m also looking for ‘basket ball stuff’ for a 19 year old if anyone has any suggestions!

some well priced bath toys in Argos at the moment

Bath toy
£8 down from £11

£15 from £20
Hey duggee bath toy s also reduced now too, it’s stayed full price previously.

Bluey Bluey
Bath toy £13 from £17

and Blue plushie play date surprise is half price £17.50 from £35

I have a £5 off £50 spend Argos code needing to be used before midnight tonight if anyone needs one pm me.

Laminator £25.88 finishes in 5 mins!!

I have. I had to chase them up though. They said I’d been issued a refund but nothing appeared in my account. I emailed and it appeared a couple of days later. Did yours get ‘lost’ in transit?

Their loungewear is two for £20 with the code LOUNGE20. Can mix and match between mens and womens.

Also a further 10% off with the code Socknews10
which stacks with the lounge 20 code.

Free delivery and a choice of a free gift (choice of boxers/socks) when you spend £40

@hugsandpugs @nightcap What is the sizing like on the loungeware? I've just had a look and the smallest is 10. I'm an 8 but wondered if they are true to size? (In other words would I be ok with baggy or will it swamp me?)

I’m in between a 10 and 12, I went for a 12 cause I wasn’t sure how the sizing was either and they fit me perfectly. Roomy but not massively baggy if that makes sense. I think a 10 would have been tighter than I’d have liked X

Thank you, that’s exactly the sort of thing I was hoping to get a recommendation for - that’s great! Will give it a go :)

I don't need any more socks. I already had the sock advent calendar. I DON'T NEED ANY MORE SOCKS...... oh darn, looks like I'm buying some socks and some lounge wear 🤣 🐑🐑🐑

Can’t believe I managed to do a big stick shop order and couldn’t get the freebie or the 2 for 20 to work, and just ordered anyway as I was tired and didn’t want to miss out. Just missed out on the discount and the freebie. Argh. What was it in the end? Have I missed anything good?!

I've also decided to order from sockshop 🐑 Currently quite pregnant so hoping the loungewear bottoms can be comfy for post partum!

Thanks @LostMyRubySlippers and @hugsandpugs

I’m sure they will be! Congrats on the pregnancy btw! 👶

I haven’t followed this thread due to other pressures, so apologies if it’s been asked a million times…
has anyone got a discount code for Smyths? I think I’ve missed the £10 off £100 ☹️

i had the ikettle it was brilliant, I set it up so when I came home it would ping up
“do you want to put the kettle on”

why, yes, yes I do. Thank you for asking.

it lasted about 8-10 years and I drink a lot of hot drinks. I didn’t replace it with another as my wifi is now shit.

Could anyone recommend somewhere like Sephora or look fantastic that offers free delivery? I’m after a £10 voucher but it would be a bit of a crappy gift if £4 of it went on p&p
thanks

Thank you to those who suggested sticker makers - I’ve only just managed to catch back up.

i am now looking for x30 pairs of socks (preferably Xmas or fluffy) for team gifts. I need them as cheap as possible delivered by next Thursday, can anyone suggest anywhere?

The sock shop advent and loungewear was one of my fave buys, it arrived today. The advent is for me to strip as I have no nice socks left! But it is beautiful and an absolute steal. I would happily have bought this as a standard advent in future years. The loungewear is for DH and although I havent opened them, came in individually wrapped bags which look rather smart. So chuffed as he loves their boxers. Thanks so much for the tipoff

The sock shop advent calendar socks are down to £29.99 for 25 pairs if that’s any good?

@Sneezein3 , have you looked at Vera Tucci? They were doing mystery bundle of 10 pairs of fluffy socks for a tenner last year and arrived really quickly. Only downside is some of them are mink so though they're really warm and comfy, I question my ethics every time I wear them.

@Twonka - except for special offers, (like around BF), all the places like Sephora, LF and Allbeauty usually have a minimum spend to avoid delivery charges. (Sometimes it’s possible to find a free delivery code, but it’s by no means guaranteed that there’ll be one available.)

I know many people like to avoid Amazon gift cards, but if you want your recipient to avoid extra delivery charges, (especially if they have prime/can sign up for a trial), then an Amazon gift card may be the way forward. You can get lots of the main beauty brands on Amazon and pay with an Amazon gift card.

Alternately, if your recipient can get to a store, you could get a voucher for SpaceNK or Sephora. However, in-store there’s very little for £10, (there’s a bigger choice of things under £10 online, but then, of course, there’s delivery!)

Apparently I am not eligible for the Moonpig free card 😿.

More worryingly, my account brought up my last order from early December two years ago as I haven’t logged onto MP since then.

I was horrified to see that I had made two orders for Xmas from two years ago and they are - apparently - still in transit! I had completely forgotten that they had never arrived 🙀

Note to self: Keep better track of what I have ordered 🙈🙈🙈