OMG guess how much it's possible to spend on a bauble!

[MadameDuBain]

Have a guess! then... see if you're right

Could you really do all that for £82,000, ninedragons? Wow. Which charities are doing it? (Not that I was planning to buy the £82,000 bauble so have that kind of cash lying around, but possibly a donation closer in size to my normal bauble outgoings...)

We actually have a £10 bauble it came from one of those paint-your-own-pottery places we went to once - DS wanted to do a bauble and I had no idea how much it cost until he got started. I love it though. Now that's a one-off.

Otherwise I'm Mrs cheapo bauble - ours are all multipacks, 20 for £3.99 etc.

You could make a start. Though considering by one estimate I heard recently, Laos has 1 tonne of unexploded ordinance per citizen.

There are hundreds of clearance and rehabilitation projects (most working on a very small scale - my handbag was made by Cambodian landmine victims. Most are children or agricultural workers or both, and need to be trained in a new trade once they can no longer walk).

This is one, but there are hundreds: www.cmac.org.kh/

UNICEF also do excellent work in all three countries.

I will spend up to a fiver on a bauble, but as I said earlier, I have a collection of baubles built up over the past 17 or more years. Initially that was padded out with cheaper packs of baubles.

does not even come close!