I still have loads of Christmas shopping to do but I thought I would have a quick update so I know where I am:Miss Frugal - Spent £170.00 / Budget £150.00Sleeping Beauty Doll-£16.00, Badge Making Kit-£2.00, Photo Snowglobe- £1.00, Beauty and the Beast Dress up set - £12.00, Disney Princess Camera - £15.00, Go Go Hamster house - £27.00, Go Go hamster £0, Go Go Hamster £10.00, Go Go tunnel and wheel £15.00 Pink Laptop £15.00, Tinkerbell activity book £2.00, Black Beauty DVD £1.00 HSM Jewellery box £3.00, Disney Jigsaw £2.00, Pony toy £4.00, Disney Princess 4 poster bed £10.00, Learn to walk chou … [Read more...]
The tree is up….
After a few trauma's our Christmas tree is now up.The first trauma was actually finding the tree and decorations! When we moved they just went in the garage along with the other million or so boxes.... It is freezing outside today but I still had to spend half an hour looking for a tree out there... I gave up in the end and we had to go buy one from Tescos (£10 reduced from £25 so not too bad).I found the tree decorations so we spent a pleasant hour with the kids decorating the tree whilst singing Christmas carols and drinking Eggnog.Well ok, we actually spent a stressful half an hour … [Read more...]
How to get a North Pole Postmark….
I am off work ill today as I have been up since about 4'o'clock coughing. I have dropped the kids off at school and am now snuggled up on the sofa watching Supermarket Sweep (feeling very sorry for myself might I add).The kids were hyper this morning as they know that they can open their advent calendars tomorrow. I might as well put my day off to good use so I am trying to sort out their letters from Santa Claus.Usually, I buy personalised letters from Ebay for about £2.50 each but this year the Frugal kids are getting a frugal version using this siteFree letters from SantaYou can download … [Read more...]
Letters to Santa….
Wow letters to Santa are a lot different these days than they were when I was little. According to my dad, my letters used to be along the lines of:Dear Santa,I have been a good girl all year and would love a doll to play with. I would look after her and call her Catherine.Love Baby Mrs FrugalMiss Frugal did her letter to Santa while I was cooking the tea and it involved poring over the Argos catalogue and cutting out anything that she wanted, she then laid them all out and narrowed it down to her shortlist. After great deliberation she managed to narrow it down to an A4 side of paper and … [Read more...]
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