This week I had christmas with all my uni friends before we headed back to our hometowns for a few weeks. It was a night of great food (if I do say so myself!) festive fun and games and a lot of laughs. I thought I'd pop a few tips on here for how to put together a great student christmas without breaking the bank.
- Decide how much you'll each pay. We decided to all put in £5 to cover the cost of the food and a few extras. If you all decide a small amount to pay you'll have more than enough food for everyone. It's much easier to all put money in than trying to split who gets what. You can decide to just get food for a christmas dinner or you can add in sweet treats, crackers, decorations and nibbles too!
- Secret Santa! Keep the price limit low and go for silly presents. A £2 spending limit and a trip to poundland and your living room will be full of plastic bow and arrows and plastic tiaras!
- Create your christmas playlists and don your christmas jumpers! Things can feel pretty 'un-festive' at uni, you don't really want to splash out on decorations when you're going home in a few days, so make the most of what you've got!
- Whoever cooks, doesn't clean! Make sure everyone does their bit, if you've cooked the whole meal, get the others doing the washing up.
Most of all. Have a lot of fun! My memories with my uni friends are my memories with my best friends, ones I will always remember!
Are you putting on a christmas with your friends this year? Let me know your plans!
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When you are at university and living away from home, your friends become your family.
You over share, you laugh, you cry, you get drunk and you love them all to bits.
We thought we'd have a little christmas together before we headed home for the festive period.
I was very excited about laying the table, as make-shift as it was! (We used the garden table from my balcony!)
Myself and Fran's first attempt at cooking Christmas Dinner, pretty great if you ask me! But I didn't have loads of time to snap it, I was staaaarving!
THIS is house students do christmas. Just look at that magnificent tree...
After we'd stuffed our faces, we continued to stuff our faces with Quality Street, open our secret santa presents, play ridiculous games and celebrate into the early hours!
Not beautiful photographs, but they hold a lot of happy memories for me so I wanted to blog about it!
Did you have christmas with your friends?
Secret Santa's can be a bugger to buy...
Price limits, not knowing the person well enough or having no clue where to even start!
But, there is also a lot of fun to be had in buying a Secret Santa gift! These are some of my top Secret Santa picks!
Some are unisex, but most are for women. I tend to go down the jokey route for men, as lets face it, they're impossible to buy for! Sorry boys...
The Body Shop Glazed Apple Treat Box // Daisy Floral Phone Case // Travelcard Wallet // Clinique Whole Lotta Chubby Gift Set // My Future Listography Book // Xmas Party Props // Retro Sweets // Selfie Stick // Funny Quote Tea Towel // Bunny Ring Holder // Molton Brown Tree Decoration Soap // iPhone Fish Eye Lens
With the most expensive item here being the 'Clinique Whole Lotta Chubby Gift Set' at £20 and the lowest being the Fish Eye Lens and Xmas Party Props at £5, these gifts are great for any lower budget for Secret Santa!
What are you thinking of purchasing?
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