Guest Posted November 19, 2008 Posted November 19, 2008 Is it me or have the price of toys shot up since last year Went to toys r us yesterday afternoon to buy the presents for the pre-school christmas party (40 pressies in total) and was shocked to see how much they had gone up. : We did manage to get what we wanted, so that was fine. I have spent this afternoon wrapping them all up, so now I have a stiff back and tooth ache from biting 120+ pieces of sellotape! as I forgot to bring home the tape dispenser from work Now I have the pleasure of tripping over the things in my dining room for the next few weeks as we don't have room in the setting to store them. Hope you all manage to get the gifts you want for all of your children in your settings at a price you can afford.
Cait Posted November 19, 2008 Posted November 19, 2008 we always use scholastic book club to get a special book for each child and have a secret santa where parents draw a child's name out of a hat and get a gift for the Christmas party (with a ceiling limit for spend!)
HappyMaz Posted November 19, 2008 Posted November 19, 2008 Oh Brenda you put me to shame! The problem with having a daughter whose birthday is so close to Christmas is that I can't really get motivated until I have her birthday organised. And I'm not organised at the best of times! I'm glad you've got that bit sorted - I'll have to put my thinking caps on! Maz
Guest Posted November 19, 2008 Posted November 19, 2008 We always have a book as a present and the Book People helped us out this year............ half of our books came from the commission on the school order!!! YAY!
Guest Posted November 19, 2008 Posted November 19, 2008 Yes we use the book people too - very reasonable bought the spot collection in a rucksack to split worked out about £1 a book
dublinbay Posted November 19, 2008 Posted November 19, 2008 Yep! We use the Book People too. Excellent books for very little money.
Guest Posted November 19, 2008 Posted November 19, 2008 WOW BrendaS, I'm impressed, how organised are you. Me, night before the preschool Christmas party and I'm doing a quick visit to local stores, buying and wrapping for the following morning. Still I haven't got that worry this year. ( ) Sad and happy about that, can't believe a year has gone by since I closed my preschool. Peggy
Guest Posted November 20, 2008 Posted November 20, 2008 done mine too also for the out of school club never been this early before this is the well oiled machine I new I could be ha ha sue
Guest Posted November 20, 2008 Posted November 20, 2008 For the last 3 years we have used a company called Abbey Distributors and they are great. We tell them how many boys/girls we have in each age group, and the price per head [it starts at £3 each] and they wrap them for us. All we have to do is put a child's name label on the one that says 'boy, 2 years'. To be honest the quality so far has been better than we could have sourced ourselves for the same price - and no wrapping.
Jo A Posted November 21, 2008 Posted November 21, 2008 We have a Christmas Social where we choose and wrap the books (also from book people), drink lots of wine and even more chocolates. Its a very good evening!
HappyMaz Posted November 21, 2008 Posted November 21, 2008 We tell them how many boys/girls we have in each age group Do boys and girls like different things then Weightman? Sounds a very hassle free system to me! Maz
Shiny Posted November 21, 2008 Posted November 21, 2008 Our parents pay £6 for the christmas party and this includes a £5 gift. We buy them from WHSmiths or M&S when they do their 3 for 2 promo. It works out really well and we make money for the preschool too!!
Guest Posted November 21, 2008 Posted November 21, 2008 I don't know, Maz, do they? Anyway that's the way the order form works and yes, it's very hassle free. With all the meetings etc that are happening in the next 3 weeks it's a blessing as far as I'm concerned. And I'm not on commission!
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