A SUPERMUM with 12 kids has shared her top buys in Home Bargains for stocking fillers – and prices start at just 70p.
Zoe Sullivan, 46, husband Ben, 49, and their dozen children make up one of the country’s biggest families.
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The couple are parents to Elisabeth, 19, Olivia, 18, Noah, 14, Evangeline, 12, Tobias, 11, Agnes, seven, Joseph, six, Florence, two, and two sets of twins – Charlotte and Isabelle, 16, and Leah and Erin, eight.
The bumper brood live in a six-bedroom house in Burghead, Moray, where they regularly document their hectic lives on their YouTube channel.
And Zoe announced that Christmas arrived in the Sullivan household this week, with the kids making festive crafts.
In an Instagram post, she said: “Is it too early for Christmas? Not in this house it’s not!!
“Today has been all about Christmas crafting.
“I have started my big clean for Christmas and realised just how dusty some of my house is. I swear I clean and the next day it’s dusty again!!!”
With 12 children, the busy mum also has to be very organised when it comes to Christmas gifts.
So the weekend called for an early shopping spree to Home Bargains, with stocking fillers in mind,
Zoe said: “So it’s Saturday night and what do you do on a Saturday night? You go on a shopping trip.
“I quite like coming to Home Bargains on a Saturday night because at the moment it’s quite quiet. Obviously in the lead up to Christmas it’ll be much busier but at the moment it’s quite quiet.”
“As soon as you walk in, loads of decorations. It gets me in the Christmas spirit straight away.”
The savvy mum then revealed some of her top stocking filler tips and buys that she swears by for her brood.
She insisted that bath fizzers are a “great idea” for small gifts, with prices from just 59p. ‘Surprise bath bombs in the shape of dinosaur eggs also offer a fun alternative for younger kids at £1.49.
Zoe was also impressed by “really, really pretty” 99p hair gems for younger girls.
And a stocking filler roun-up wouldn’t be complete without toiletries gift sets – with prices from £3.99.
“I always try and buy the girls, and the boys, a gift set. They’re just nice”, said Zoe.
For beauty-loving teens, she pointed out that there’s also St Moriz fake tan gift sets for £4.99.
She was quick to pick up a pack of 12 hand cream gift set for £4.99 and shared a clever hack.
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She said: “We’ve actually got one of these for the younger girls [Leah, Erin and Agnes] because they use a lot of hand cream.
“But I didn’t buy three. I just bought one and split it between the three of them because I don’t need that many hand creams but 12 tubes of hand cream for £4.99 I thought was quite good.”
Hand creams aren’t the only thing she divides between the kids, either.
She added: “Face mask kits are great for teens. If you’ve got multiple like we have, you can always split the pack and put one in each. They’re not overly expensive.”
She also bagged Squishmallow lip balms sets, £2.99, for the youngest girls and a £3.99 Spiderman bath and shower set for Joseph.
Next up, the mum insisted that old school puzzles and games, from £1.49, are “always good fun and good to chuck in”.
And she revealed that kids “could have hours of fun with those sorts of things” as she showed off make your own bath bomb, soap and lip balm kits.
Zoe also said she likes to make sure there’s something crafty in her brood’s stockings, so they have “something they can do, instead of just play with” – with a £2.49 pencil case you can colour in proving a perfect example.
Meanwhile, she praised a £2.99 fidget popping game £2.99 that she bought for the boys last year, adding: “I need to go back in and buy some for the girls.”
Zoe finished off her recommendations with the essentials – socks, gloves and hats.
“These are always good stocking fillers”, she said.
Heading home, she added: “I came out with a little more than I went in for, but it’s all good fun.
“They’ve actually got loads and loads and loads of stuff.
“How long things will be in for, I don’t know. I’ve made the mistake before of not getting stuff when I’ve seen it lip balms especially for some reason and then them being sold out which is why I’ve grabbed some stuff tonight that I’ve seen.
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“But they’re all reasonably priced stocking fillers and little gifts, you don’t have to spend a fortune.
“Just some bits and bobs for the younger ones mainly but they’re all reasonably priced stocking fillers and little gifts for people, you don’t have to spend a fortune.”
