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Bookshops are booming, here’s how you can save cash.
2nd of November, 2020Last week we heard on the radio that independent book shops across the UK are having a boom time in book sales. Apparently, their Christmas book sales seem to have been brought forwards, as stores are reporting the sorts of levels of book sales that they would normally see in December when people ...
Last Christmas, I gave you a gift-card...
28th of October, 2020... and for the past year, you did absolutely nothing with it.Calling time on Christmas 2018/9 giftcards! If you got a gift card for Christmas, then chances are it might expire any day soon. Yes, the gift card kindly given, by family or friends, is probably going to be worthless...
ESPOG! The art of never letting another gift card die in your wallet.
27th of October, 2020What’s your wallet looking like these days? Is it stacked full of receipts, vouchers and loose change?Or is it neatly filed, with credit cards on one side and a few folded notes, and THAT GIFT CARD on the other? That gift card that is currently dying. ...
Cardyard – saving you money, so you can game for less
23rd of October, 2020We’ve just spotted this great review, and it echoes what many people do when then use Cardyard – make money and save money: https://www.hotukdeals.com/discussions/selling-ce...
Creative Christmas Cash-saving Ideas
19th of October, 2020According to research* the average person in the UK spends around £512.85 per person on gifts at Christmas time!!! And – 60% of us are trying to cut down our spending. OK, so that was based on research for 2019, pre Covid, and we can imagine that even more of us will be ...
Campaign Launched to Donate unwanted gift cards to support charities as smallest hit by COVID-19
15th of October, 2020As the impacts of COVID-19 continue to be felt across the UK, charities everywhere are struggling to cope. But this might be hitting the smallest hardest - as the smaller, more specialist local charities and community groups are faced with providing ever greater local support to their local commu...
World Mental Health Day
7th of October, 202010th October is World Mental Health Day. Perhaps the key point about mental health – is that we all have it! It’s just like physical health really – our mental health can be in good shape or not so good. However, unlike physical health, mental health is...
Who buys gift cards at full price any more?
5th of October, 2020Does anyone buy full price gift-cards these days? Well it seems quite a few of us do. And some people even buy them for MORE than full price. Check this out – a quick search just found a “one for all” gift card valued at 50 Euros – on sale at £50 GBP (at today’s exchange r...
Birthday Bonanza in Autumn!
2nd of October, 2020Did you know that most babies are born in September and early *October? Obviously this also means that most people have birthdays in September and early October, and that can mean it’s an extra-expensive time of year. Need to buy for an October birthday? ...
Halloween Giftcard Competition
2nd of October, 2020Turf out the traditional this Halloween! With so many people under lockdown, others who are missing loved ones, and all of us facing vast changes in our lives, it can seem like an inappropriate move to go “trick or treating”. After all, it’s not great to knock on neighbours’ doors if the...