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Mum's budget Christmas selling some daughter's toys on Vinted then buying new ones
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25/12/2024
A savvy mum had a budget Christmas after selling some of her daughter's toys on Vinted - and using the cash to buy her new ones.
Melissa Kerrighen, 28, from Canterbury, UK, was determined to do a “budget Christmas” and not overspend on gifts for her five-year-old daughter, Isla.
She sold her daughter’s old toys, including gifts from last year, on the reselling site, Vinted.
She made around £85 – which she put back into buying second hand gifts on the site.
Melissa said she only put in £35 of her “own money” into additional stocking fillings – spending a total of £120.
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I've spent £35 on my daughter's Christmas gifts and here is why I've chosen to do a budget
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Christmas this year. Hiya if you're new here I'm Melissa and I talk all things money and family
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life and today is day 15 of the £250 budget. Now this Christmas I have only spent £35 out of my
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pocket this year for Isla's gift and that's because I have sold lots of her old things
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on Vinted that she didn't want anymore and I managed to raise £85 so this is the first year
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I've stuck to more of a budget and I've not overbought as this is something that I tend to
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do even though I know she doesn't need the extra gift. It's almost like the cupboard doesn't exist
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until I get back home. Do you just keep buying if you see something or are you able to stop
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yourself from buying extra over the Christmas season? Today I spent £6.50 on some snacks for
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the car as we visited family today so there is still £123.81 in the pot and if you'd like to
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see more content around money and family life then please pop me a follow. Do you think that
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Christmas has gotten way out of hand or do you enjoy all the new traditions that have been
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started more recently? Hiya if you're new here I'm Melissa and I talk all things money and family
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life and today is day 17 of the £100 budget. Now it seems like every year something gets added to
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the list of things to do in December and I think mums especially put too much pressure on ourselves
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to make sure everything gets done and everyone has a good time. When I was growing up we got
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a chocolate £1 advent calendar, a stocking on Christmas morning and we had to wait until my dad
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woke up to open our gifts. Nowadays it's Christmas markets like Switch Ons, Elf on the Shelf,
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Pantomimes, Santa Visits, Christmas Eve boxes and the latest I've heard is a December box.
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Now I'm sure people make all these things up so mums feel bad that they can't do it all.
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Not only is it a lot with having to buy gifts and seeing friends and family and going to school
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nativities, it also costs so much extra in fuel and travel costs, extra food and gifts and so on.
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I think we should all try and stop the rush of fitting it all in and do what makes us happy and
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as mums we need to enjoy Christmas too. So if you're feeling guilty about trying to do everything
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just remember that this isn't realistic and if you are doing it all that's okay too. Christmas is
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what you make at the end of the day. Today we had a family day and we got a Greggs which was £12.35
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which leaves £32 in the pot. Christmas on a budget. So I'm spending around £120 this year on
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my daughter. She will get one present from Santa and the rest will be from us. This year I've
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decided that I'm going to be buying her some new toys and some used toys as she changes her mind
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so often that it's just not worth spending all that money for her not to play with it in a month's
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time. I've always put money away each week for Christmas and all previous years I've rinsed
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that account and I'm not too sure why I've done it. I've just come to the realisation this year
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that why am I doing this and I'm also on a debt payoff journey this year and I'm pretty sure
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paying off my debt would make more sense than buying presents that she's not actually going to
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play with. So I have already spent around £50 on Isla this year. I've got a few stockingy bits
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and about six presents and I'm sure that the rest of my budget will be able to account for
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like a main gift and a few more stocking bits and what have you. If there is actually anything else
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that she mentions in shops and what have you I'll take a picture of it and I'll send it to family
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who have already asked for ideas and I always find that so difficult because I've got everything that
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she wants and every year without fail even though I do a massive clear out in November
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we still can't fit it all in come like the 27th of December and we just have boxes piled up and
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piled up and she never plays with them. They just get sat there and it's just such a waste
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and I think doing it this way will be so much better this year.
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