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Who has started Christmas shopping already?

Iain

It is just over 7 weeks until Christmas so it seems a good time for those of us who are disorganised to start planning and avoid the anxiety of last minute purchases.

Who has got their present / card purchases all sorted out?

Who is struggling for ideas?

I though this could be a good prompt to get people thinking ahead and working through some of the struggles for decisions on purchases to make the whole thing a bit easier this year.

I've got my main present sorted out and am working out what to get for the other 4 people on my list. Cards I'll be picking up this week (with a few spares just in case) and will soon be sending my international cards as well as they seem to take forever.

How about you?

Parents

  • I have bought a few stocking filler type presents, but I am planning to buy the main presents next week.

    I need to buy the appropriate number of large Lego bricks,  tubing and pieces for a young child who would like to build a Henry vacuum cleaner. She wouldn’t be able to do anything too intricate or sophisticated. The cylinder needs to end up at around 30cm or so high. She has several toy Henry vacuum cleaners which are lined up nicely. Somebody proposed the idea that Lego produce a Henry vacuum cleaner set, but it didn’t get enough votes to be produced. I am trying to work out which bits and pieces could make up something that would be acceptable.

    Any tips would be appreciated. 

  • in reply to ArchaeC
    ArchaeC said:
    I need to buy the appropriate number of large Lego bricks,  tubing and pieces for a young child who would like to build a Henry vacuum cleaner.

    That is a great idea.

    You could start with an existing cleaner, strip it down to its main parts and see which can be reasonably replaced with Lego.

    I imagine that for it to actually work you would need to glue much of it together to take the forces of being dragged around & lifted but the outer skin should be fairly easy to do and the inner "bucket" that holds the bag - but things like the neck of the vacuum hose and the hose itself would need to be the original parts, maybe bonded onto some lego for where it connects into the main chassais.

    Now that is the sort of project I could get my teeth into.

  • in reply to Iain

    Thanks Iain. Your idea helps. So much easier than trying to work things out from limited sizing information on websites. I’ll box the stripped down vacuum function with the Lego bricks and pieces that replace the original parts, and some plastic glue and instructions. I think Mummy and Daddy will be kept occupied over Christmas. 

  • in reply to ArchaeC

    Mum and I bought some stuff earlier.

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