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~Helen~ · 28 Dec 2008, 18:01

You like white chocolate then Emma?! And cats!

I'm still wading through my tonne of chocolate and loving every guilt-free minute of it (can't be healthy with chocolate around therefore must be eaten in order for health-kick to start).

Here's this year's prezzie conundrum for ya...
My friend Anna and I like to set a 'target' (not limit; target - the idea is to spend as close to the target as possible without going over - going over the target is cheating!) for our Christmas presents to each other which over the years have varied from £1 (that was last year and she bought me moose shaped pasta from Ikea - very cool!) to £10 (I know look at us being the world's greatest spenders...but the idea really is to hve a bit of fun trying to get a particular value and also show that we are thinking about each other at Christmas without spending a tonne of money - and we've been doing this for about 8 years now!)
This year Anna requested a £3-challenge. And a challenge for me it was, as I had already found (and bought) a rather cool grow-your-own christmas tree (actual soil, seeds, and packet, to grow it in!) to go towards Anna's gifts which cost the pricey sum of... something like 39p leaving me a £2.61 challenge. Thanks to tax being knocked off things at the tills I was 3p short of the target and mentioned this to Anna (ok ok I'm getting to the point, bear with me) who said she rekoned that was close enough as she had only guessed the value for mine and I would see when I opened it. So I was expecting something along the lines of Anna's infamous baking or cross stitches. The gift was... a rather lovely off white pashmina (70% cashmere, 30% something else)...how is that £3? and how does one come to be guestimating its value?

(if anyone is interested, for the £2.97, Anna received...a grow-your-own christmas tree, a chocolate recipes calendar, some christmas cookie/biscuit cookers (she's a keen and very skilled baker, and either of these might encourage her to do yet more baking next time I am visiting), and a fancy patterned emery board - I was quite proud to keep all that under £3!)

28 Dec 2008, 18:01	#40
~Helen~ Mega Loafer Join Date: 01.11.2007 Location: Manchester Posts: 1,958	You like white chocolate then Emma?! And cats! I'm still wading through my tonne of chocolate and loving every guilt-free minute of it (can't be healthy with chocolate around therefore must be eaten in order for health-kick to start). Here's this year's prezzie conundrum for ya... My friend Anna and I like to set a 'target' (not limit; target - the idea is to spend as close to the target as possible without going over - going over the target is cheating!) for our Christmas presents to each other which over the years have varied from £1 (that was last year and she bought me moose shaped pasta from Ikea - very cool!) to £10 (I know look at us being the world's greatest spenders...but the idea really is to hve a bit of fun trying to get a particular value and also show that we are thinking about each other at Christmas without spending a tonne of money - and we've been doing this for about 8 years now!) This year Anna requested a £3-challenge. And a challenge for me it was, as I had already found (and bought) a rather cool grow-your-own christmas tree (actual soil, seeds, and packet, to grow it in!) to go towards Anna's gifts which cost the pricey sum of... something like 39p leaving me a £2.61 challenge. Thanks to tax being knocked off things at the tills I was 3p short of the target and mentioned this to Anna (ok ok I'm getting to the point, bear with me) who said she rekoned that was close enough as she had only guessed the value for mine and I would see when I opened it. So I was expecting something along the lines of Anna's infamous baking or cross stitches. The gift was... a rather lovely off white pashmina (70% cashmere, 30% something else)...how is that £3? and how does one come to be guestimating its value? (if anyone is interested, for the £2.97, Anna received...a grow-your-own christmas tree, a chocolate recipes calendar, some christmas cookie/biscuit cookers (she's a keen and very skilled baker, and either of these might encourage her to do yet more baking next time I am visiting), and a fancy patterned emery board - I was quite proud to keep all that under £3!)