Black Friday Giftcard Hack
6th of November, 2020It may have its origins in USA, but Black Friday is here in the UK to stay. According to Wikipedia, in the USA, as from 1952, Christmas shopping started in earnest in the days after Thanksgiving, when hordes of shoppers and traffic would descend into the city of Philadelphia.A few decad...
Is there anything, ANYTHING, you can’t buy with an Amazon giftcard?
4th of November, 2020Amazon seems to sell everything - so here is the question: Is there anything at all, that you can’t buy with an Amazon giftcard? This is the challenge. What on earth can you not buy at Amazon, using your Amazon giftcard? Well armed with...
The Big Cash Secret – you’ve already got it!
2nd of November, 2020Shhhhh.... How to discover the cash you didn’t even realise you had. No – we aren’t talking about going down the back of the sofa, although that’s not a bad idea for a few pennies or even a shiny £1. This is much savvier and scan get you a LOT more cash for your effort.Do we hav...
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...