Christmas Bargain Prequel Thread 1 - welcome 2025

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Evening all!

Welcome to the first prequel thread of 2025

These tend to run slower than the run up to Christmas ones but doesn't mean there are no bargains!

Happy Christmas Bargain Shopping!

Can I have this please? Hugely grateful

I'd love it thanks. I have loads of birthday stuff to buy.

Christmas sale at Wilkos ending soon.

@Puffalicious did you use ruralwanderer's code or do you still need mine?

Another Decathlon code! SPRINGOUT for £10 off a £70 spend.

I’m not sure what’s going on at Turtle Doves who apparently are now part of the Refined Brands family. Have they sold up or been absorbed into another company?

They say all their recycled cashmere items are £20: that’s fingerless gloves, wrist warmers, beanies, headbands, neck warmers and snoods. They don’t have any of the bigger items they used to have.

They now have a Studio range which is made in the UAE, and other items which may not contain any cashmere at all.

I found the webpage by following a link in an email they sent me, and I don’t think it’s a spoofed page.

The outlet on eBay says it’s sold out.

Apparently taken over by Refined Brands two years ago according to this:

https://www.drapersonline.com/news/refined-brands-acquires-turtle-doves

@Yalz This seems to be the website:

https://www.turtle-doves.co.uk/our-story/our-studio-16

I haven’t ordered from it myself, though.

I used to buy a lot from Turtle Doves, but I've avoided them for the past year in favour of this lovely independent seller. (Myself and others have mentioned her a few times on the Christmas bargain threads) I have to say that the quality is amazing, and she's a very lovely lady with great customer service.

www.ebay.co.uk/usr/seabeach2012

Thank you @Openmouthinsertfood I have just bought 26 items for £13 for click and collect 😳 including loads of floral picks and berries to make next year's wreath/flower arrangements. My kids are very young so time is rather strapped (2, 5 and 7) but thanks to working from home and some very long (boring) teams calls I have taken up making little crafts when possible!. I'm not great at it, but very willing and at these prices I can afford to make a few mistakes! Most of these items were 25p, but one make your own Christmas mouse kit was only 10p. I also bagged some bits and bobs for Easter. I'm so pleased 😌

I did use the other code for a £100 spend.

If no-one else would like yours, I would love to use it to order another 2 Switch games. But only if no-one else fancies it/ you think that's fair.

Thanks

It’s a shame, as the whole point of Turtle Doves was people sending their old cashmere jumpers to be turned into something useful. I fondly imagined they had a few local workers doing their sewing.

If the business wasn’t working any more for their founders, then fair enough if they sold it on.

@puffalicious, I'm glad you were able to use the code ☺

Just looked at turtle doves , as I have some lovely wrist warmers from there . How odd they are now selling seconds for the same price as the proper ones , the UAE ones haven’t reviewed well , and misses the point of why people ordered from Turtle Doves to start with .
I assume they won’t be around much longer , but I won’t be ordering from them again .

I couldn't get this to work sadly

I just checked and it’s sold out using that code now .

Home Bargains had mens and women's eau De Parfum on sale

I picked up an Estee Lauder 100mls pour Homme for £21.99 .
Usually twice that .

Your very welcome. I'm glad it helped out.

Hi, if anyone is near Basingstoke, Sherfield on Loddon Garden Centre has lots of lovely Xmas decorations and Xmas wooden ornaments for 70% off.

I have just bought rather a lot for £5.75, (including some Xmas coasters I am going to use as a gift).

Ooh thanks. Might have a wander there this weekend.

Gorgeous reduced glasses in dunelm. They had them in blue as well. Also lots of tree decorations reduced. My DD saw a nutcracker she liked which was £2.50 down to £1.25 but scanned at 69p. That's gone away as a stocking filler

£2 bonus on £5+ transaction through Topcashback today (remember to opt in to the bonus on the landing page.)

Do you think it will work on their gift cards?

It did when they ran the same offer before Christmas. I bought a Nike gift card, and the £2 bonus tracked, and then paid out in due course. I've just checked my tcb- it was in November and I've claimed the money.

I think I chose Nike because it was one of the few brands that had £5 gift cards, and I didn't want to spend £10!

The entertainer has 25% off a £20 spend when using click and collect using code EXTRA20. I used it to buy the crankity game which is down to £6.66 or £4.99 with the code. Way more expensive elsewhere.