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Member Since: April 2006 Posts: 2,822 Send Message	DazedConfused	Report	24 Aug 2014 13:06
	I have today started to buy some Christmas presents online. I do like to buy unusual gifts for my MIL and neices and nephews, so I often buy from I Want One of Those or Not On The High Street both of which are great for that unusual, but great gift. If like me you get fed up with buying the same old, same old year after year do give these online shops a try. My favourite is Not On The High Street. :-D
	Researching: We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars, Oscar Wilde New avatar, my dad age about 3/4 months, could have been worse, it could have been the awful nude on a rug!!
Member Since: June 2007 Posts: 31,288 Send Message	PricklyHolly	Report	24 Aug 2014 13:35
	Faints :-D
	Researching: "If I don't see you through the week.........I will see you through the window". :o))
Member Since: February 2009 Posts: 121,537 Send Message	Fly	Report	24 Aug 2014 13:42
	Flipping eck :-0
Member Since: June 2005 Posts: 8,791 Send Message	LadyScozz	Report	24 Aug 2014 14:03
Member Since: June 2005 Posts: 8,791 Send Message	Yikes I only buy Christmas gifts for one person...... my DH! OK, I confess, I buy a couple for me too... that way I get something I want. I have problems finding something "different" for DH....... wondering if those businesses are in Oz :-S :-S
Member Since: June 2007 Posts: 4,759 Send Message	Tawny	Report	24 Aug 2014 14:13
	I have used Not On The High Street since 2010 and I love the site too.
	Researching: No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled. Nor will we proceed with force against him except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land. To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.
Member Since: February 2007 Posts: 5,093 Send Message	littlelegs	Report	24 Aug 2014 14:18
	thank you will have alook :-D :-D
Member Since: April 2006 Posts: 2,822 Send Message	DazedConfused	Report	24 Aug 2014 14:38
	Lady Scozz I think both do overseas selling. And on NotOnTheHighStreet you can see where some of the items come from, some are sold to us from oversea.... Well worth a look.
	Researching: We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars, Oscar Wilde New avatar, my dad age about 3/4 months, could have been worse, it could have been the awful nude on a rug!!
Member Since: February 2007 Posts: 73,136 Send Message	AnnCardiff	Report	24 Aug 2014 15:20
	I'm reporting this offensive thread ;-)
	Researching: Breakspears of Berkshire and Cardiff, Williams and Harman of Whitchurch, Melingriffith &Tongwynlais,Glamorgan WE HAVE NO CONNECTION Do not share your tree with me
Member Since: June 2005 Posts: 8,791 Send Message	LadyScozz	Report	24 Aug 2014 15:23
Member Since: June 2005 Posts: 8,791 Send Message	lol @ AnnCardiff :-D I'll have to get over Samhain before I even think about Yule :-D
Member Since: December 2006 Posts: 1,546 Send Message	Linda	Report	24 Aug 2014 17:36
	I have already bought a few Christmas presents,but I am much later starting this year, last year I had almost finished. I have bought my SIL 60th birthday present a few weeks ago and her birthday is not till october :-D :-D
	Researching: Wells Ealing and E/W Ilsley Webbs H/Wycombe Lambourns E/Ilsley Deacons E/Ilsley Cannings Derry
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 20,651 Send Message	maggiewinchester	Report	24 Aug 2014 23:34
	No, no, no, no!!!!! It's got to be cold and dreary for me to start buying Christmas presents!!!
	Researching: Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842
Member Since: July 2004 Posts: 1,434 Send Message	Libby	Report	25 Aug 2014 00:44
	OMG. For goodness sake. Christmas in August !!! If ever there is a good argument for hanging then this is it :-0 :-0 :-( :-(
	Researching: Gregory,(Southampton & Liverpool) Cowley,(Cheshire & Liverpool) Irons,(Scotland & Liverpool) Cowan,(Liverpol) Shergold,(Salisbury) Richens+variants, (Wiltshire) Seabrooke (Liverpool)
Member Since: June 2005 Posts: 8,791 Send Message	LadyScozz	Report	25 Aug 2014 02:40
Member Since: June 2005 Posts: 8,791 Send Message	The website "Not on the High Street" knows where I am....... got a message saying the prices are in Australian dollars. Some nice stuff .......... but.......over $200 for a cushion???!!! :-0
Member Since: April 2006 Posts: 2,822 Send Message	DazedConfused	Report	25 Aug 2014 13:56
	Not all their stuff is that expensive. Just bought a lovely pair of silver earrings for my neice £12.00. I buy my Christmas cards in the January sales. And when I am out and about, should I see something that would make a great Birthday/Christmas gift for someone I will buy it. Then by the time Christmas comes around I am not rushing around trying to get presents at the last minute. In fact all we have to buy in Christmas week is the food, meat will be in the freezer having been bought from the farm shop. I did once leave it all to December, never again!!! I am not terribly organised (siiting here surrounded by paper etc.,) but decided long ago that Christmas was one thing I could destress by planning ahead. My SIL when she takes all her Christmas cards down. Then sits with the box of new cards and writes out next years ones. Pops on her stamps, puts the cards back in the box ready to be posted, now that is organisation! ;-)
	Researching: We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars, Oscar Wilde New avatar, my dad age about 3/4 months, could have been worse, it could have been the awful nude on a rug!!
Member Since: February 2009 Posts: 1,336 Send Message	Mayfield	Report	25 Aug 2014 15:41
	Owww! Roll on the day after Boxing Day ;-)
	Researching: Moribus facit homo,
Member Since: December 2003 Posts: 8,423 Send Message	ChrisofWessex	Report	25 Aug 2014 17:30
	I buy my cards in January sales from our Charity and pit aside. That is as far as I can go - each year I send out less cards than the previous year. Sad but that is life.
Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 3,885 Send Message	PollyinBrum	Report	25 Aug 2014 18:02
Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 3,885 Send Message	Today for the very first time in my life, I brought sixty Christmas cards reduced in M&S. I have put them in the cupboard under the stairs. Will someone remind me where they are near to Christmas? :-0 :-0 :-D

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