Benefits of Buying Your Christmas Gifts Early!
Christmas comes once a year, and boy, does it make an impression whilst it stays. We go all out to celebrate it: decorating the house from top to bottom in shiny decorations and colourful lights, baking cakes and cookies you don’t get at any other time of the year, drinking some raw egg with a bit of alcohol mixed in… There’s a lot of traditions we keep to, and there’s a few of them that just don’t seem to make sense! But the one we all love to practice year by year is the act of gift giving. We want…
Ultimate Mother’s Day Gift Guide for 2019
For those of you not in the UK you might not know that Mother's Day falls on Sunday 31st of March (as opposed to May, in North America). With it fast approaching you might be feeling unprepared. But, there is still time to secure that perfect gift — check out our Ultimate Mother’s Day Gift Guide to find the best presents to buy for the occasion this year. Keepsakes and Jewellery Gifts Instead of the usual Flowers and Chocolates, why not get something for your mum that lasts a bit longer, something she can keep and cherish. If you know the…
Christmas Gifting: The Economy of the Holiday Shopping Season
Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year. It's about love and happiness, it's about families gathering around the Christmas tree, exchanging gifts and feeling the love they have for each other, it's about the smell of mulled wine and pine, and about the delicious food that perfectly expresses not only tradition but the festive spirit of this amazing holiday. For companies, in turn, Christmas is about money. It's about selling as many TVs, smart speakers, smartphones, new gaming PCs, shoes, books, jewelry, and other products as they can. This might not be the very best way to describe…
How to Wrap (almost) anything for Christmas
So, have you even started all your shopping? Or maybe you're one of the organised ones and you've actually finished? The best part of the gift-giving season (besides all the happy faces on Christmas morning of course) for me, is wrapping the Christmas gifts. There's something pretty magical about listening to Christmas Music while you go through all the items you've bought and intend on giving. But, sometimes you get an item that just doesn't fit in a box, or just wouldn't look good covered in paper. Here are a few tips on wrapping that you might not of though…