lynnbrooks

Can I ask about expats at christmas...do you buy and send family back in the u.k. pressies and fork out the postage or do you do something else?
Lynn

Carruss

We dont bother sending and do not recieve either..........Bah Humbug ! ! !

We do just send Christmas cards though.

R.

Jonahs_mummy

My mum always send us flowers or a giftbasket from Aus to UK, via companies in the net - I guess when we get to Aus we will do the same for my brother in law's lot & my dad...

debbiemc

good idea claire.

i've decided going to forget christmas when we get there. i'm just so fed up of the commercialism ( yeah i know i've spelt it wrong but its a big word and i'm still suffering from last night!! , must av been the curry!! )

i will do the cards and flowers i think, and a gift for our kids but that'll be it.

debbie

merlotsmum

Best way to do it.

We used to buy Aussie things and send them back to the UK, even the "lightest" item seemed to cost more than the purchase price of the gift itself to send back, even by sea mail

eurotramp

.We live in Europe and have family in NZ and Canada and we go to some online shops in those Countries and order the stuff there and they wrap it and send it with a card to the family members

Daka

When living in the States I used Amazon to send gift wrapped presents to people in the UK or sometimes Amazon gift vouchers. Thorntons the chocolate people have a range of online gifts including flowers as well as chocolates. I also used www.expressions.co.uk who do a fun range of boxed balloons which makes a change to flowers.

Anne4Terry

Personally when we get out there, I would much rather that our children didn't send us anything but save the money they would have spent and put it towards an airline ticket.

Anne4Terry

In fact now I think about it, I will not spend any money sending them something they don't need, and put THAT towards their tickets as well.

The A Team

Ooooh good plan........think I'll do that too

Boomie

we too have sent aussie things too....... but i now send things from online argos or online next or online direct cosmetics......... and pay 3.50 delievery

For flowers I ring up the local 1 near mums...... a girl who went to school with me...... and she sorts that side out for me..... before we left for oz last year i went into the florists and paid upfront for thankq flowers for having us for 3 months b4 we left and also her xmas bouquet and a reef for ma dad.....


love boom
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lynnbrooks

soory for being thick,i'm guessing that the online gifts are sent straight to the door,gift wrapped?
Lynn

ANA123

Sent two smallish parcels home today for friends children.....$48 postage.....i'm calling it quits this year on pressies home as its getting crazy, and as i come from a large family its send 20 parcels or none! Also you begin to accumulate new people to buy for here....you could go on forever!
have told my people i'l send gifts for the childrens birthdays but christmas is too much!

scissors

we re putting together a scrap book...as its so big over here...of the things we are doing and places we are visiting to send back to the family so they can all see where we live

tracey

cranni

YES we did that, sent ours money towards their ticket.
When mum and dad come over i will treat them for the anniversaries we have missed, and they are happy with that. Still send cards, but you will find not all friends dont bother, you do find out who your friends are, and my nephews and nieces are grown up now, so not sending them. Denise