ways to save this year!

January is an odd month with the post Christmas blues and everyone back to work It's a month not a lot of people look forward to. But it's a great month for them bargain buys for all the birthdays to come throughout the year and also a great time to prepare well in advance for next Christmas. There is nothing more annoying to me than seeing the wrapping paper I paid £3 a roll for go on sale for 25p a day after Christmas, so from now on I always buy ahead. You can get all your wrapping paper, gift tags and other wrapping essentials for the fraction of the RRP. January also offers a lot of sales on Christmas gift, gift sets, toy and more, but some of them don't come in Christmas themed packaging so they're the ones perfect to buy in advance for family and friends birthdays throughout the year!

I was always someone to buy in the needed moment and never think about tomorrow, after having my daughter a year ago, I started thinking about ways to save money but still be in a position to get my loved ones special gifts on their birthdays. I took this way of thinking into everything, It started off with just wrapping paper and soon I was hooked on finding a great deal, now I hardly ever pay full price for anything. Clothes, toys, books, games, food, anything you can think of I can get it at a discounted price.
Be able to save money has enabled me to think about my wedding and really start putting my plans into action. It's also enabled for me and my family to go on holiday, move into a larger house and afford special days out, don't worry these too aren't full priced either!

One of the first things everyone should do is get a budget planner for the year, go through it month by month and write all the outgoings and really work out how much you have to spend every month. I bought a budget planner from Wilkinsons for £3 and it's great, It really helps me keep track of my outgoings and income. Another great thing to do is to shop around, you might like sticking to that one supermarket or that one clothing store but shopping around can save you a lot of money, websites such as mysupermarket.com will compare your grocery shopping with other supermarkets and really show you where the best place to shop is. Make sure you do this for every grocery shop as deals are forever changing.
Checking for coupons or vouchers has now become easier than ever and google search really is your friend, there are so many sites that will offer you vouchers or cashback and you don't even need to sign up to most of them, you can save on average 25% every shop.

Gifts for the foodie lover for under £15!

With Christmas just done and dusted It's easy to forget about the birthdays a head, easy to forget but if you have somebody who loves their food and drink then I have some amazing gift ideas all for under £15!

One for the coffee lover, just a little something or a gift to add to a present. A set of 5 coffee syrups Caramel, Vanilla, Hazelnut, Gingerbread and Chocolate Cookie.
A perfect gift for someone who loves a coffee or maybe someone who just received a coffee machine for Christmas.
This set is £8.60 (currently on offer) at Amazon.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Monin-Syrup-Coffee-Gift-5x5cl/dp/B00QQ698IW

One little gift for someone who maybe doesn't like coffee or tea but loves a good hot chocolate is this lovely little set by Starbucks. This comes with a striped handle classic Starbucks mug, some delicious mini marshmallows, a large chocolate coin and Starbuck's own hot cocoa drink mix.
This set is £14.99 and available in Argos.

http://www.argos.co.uk/product/5710890

A great little gift for a couple or for somebody who really enjoys lovely wine is this little gift set from Marks & Spencers. This gift includes 2 lovely wine glasses as well as two mini one glass sized bottles of wine. This is a lovely gift by itself for a couple or great to add to a gift hamper.
This retails for £15 and is from M&S.

http://www.marksandspencer.com/mini-wine-duo-with-glasses-gift/p/p60089386?quickView=true&isOldPDP=yes#lightbox-quick



            A great little gift for a chocolate lover!

Personalised chocolates are gift from the heart, great to come from children and even extra special when they're made from high quality chocolate.I found this one on Not on the highstreet but you can find personalised chocolates from a lot of other places too.
Thorntons do personalised chocolate slabs where you have your own message iced on to them. These chocolates are £9.25 from notonthehighstreet.com

http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/cocoapod/product/personalised-chocolates-for-grandads

A gift for a baker!
These little jars come with everything you'll need to make a perfect cake, donut, cupcake or cookie. There are plenty to choose from and of course they're also a great D.I.Y gift. This jar is to make a chocolate smarties cake and comes with all the dry ingredients you need to make it. The recipe is on the label and the jar is reusable. This little gift comes from notonthehighstreet.com and retails for £14.95.

http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/katiebakes/product/chocolate-spotty-dotty-cookie-mix-jar 

Pampering gift ideas for her for under £10

For the ladies who love pampering themselves I have found some great gift sets out there, here are 5 of my favorites:

It wouldn't be a pampering gift guide if I didn't include something from Soap and Glory.
They have a range of gifts from £5-£60 so there is something to suit everyones budget. This is the Clean get away gift set and it includes 4 miniatures, perfect for someone who travels a lot or someone who wouldn't get through a full sized product. It also gives someone a chance to trail Soap and Glory products and find their favorite.
This gift set retails for £10 and is available on boots website and in store.
 
 http://www.boots.com/en/Soap-Glory%E2%84%A2-Clean-Getaway-Gift_1444102/

 Another great pampering gift are these cocktail party bath melts, great for someone who enjoys a long soak in the bath. It comes with 4 cocktail inspired scents; Gin & tonic, Strawberry daiquiri, Mango mojito and Pina colada.
These are from prezzy box and they retail for £9.95.
It's a great little gift and comes all wrapped up too!

http://www.prezzybox.com/cocktail-bath-melts.aspx

A great little touch of luxury pamper gift is one from L'Occitane this lovely little gift set is from Debenhams and comes in at only £9.00.
This gift set contains; Shower oil, Almond milk concentrate, Hand cream and a nail file.
Perfect little gift set for someone to pamper themselves before a night out or to de-stress after a hard day or week.

http://www.debenhams.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/prod_10701_10001_154238101699_-1

Another great pamper gift set from Debenhams is the Baylis & harding Donut shop stacking gift set.
This gift set retails for £10.00 and includes; Frosted sprinkles body wash, Blueberry glaze donut shower cream, bath soak crystals, vanilla sugar donut body lotion and blueberry glaze donut body lotion.
This gift is definitely for the sweet scent loving and will probably hit their sugar fix!
Great gift for teens or for young adults who love sweet scented bath and body products.


http://www.debenhams.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/prod_10701_10001_172010714799_-1

Last but not least on my 5 pampering gift sets for under £10, the face mask pampering gift.
The perfect gift for someone who enjoys taking care of their skin, enjoy face masks or just loves a pamper day at home.
This retails for £9.99 and is available from Argos.
This hamper includes; Bath sponge, Bath bombs, Dead sea mud pac, Passion peel off mask, Hot chocolate mask, Manuka honey peel off mask, Avocado oil mask, Cucumber peel off mask, Very berry mask, Acai Body smoothie sachet, Pulped papaya hair masque and fresh foot sachet.
A great pampering experience.

                                                      http://www.argos.co.uk/product/2458375


I hope these pampering gift ideas for under £10 have helped you with what to buy the ladies who love to pamper in your life.