My husband was out of work from the end of November until the beginning of this week. He's usually the breadwinner and I'm a stay at home mum, so it was a difficult Christmas, not knowing when there'd be more money coming in. Luckily in November I won a hamper full of Molton Brown goodies including a beautiful big candle and that provided presents for four people (we did keep a few bits ourselves) and then I won a bag of Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom toys and DVD's from E4 which was the perfect present for my TV obsessed toddler! Christmas was still tough, but it could have been much worse. I also won a wonderful Christmas experience from Magic: skating followed by a ride on the London Eye with mulled wine, but I let my brother do this as unlike me he doesn't need a babysitter!
Other small prizes I've won in the last few months included a diary, an Abbot Ale tumbler (well they did have 1000 to give away) and lots of subtitled DVDs which we thoroughly enjoy. Thanks Prizefinder. Writing it down has reminded me how well I've done!