I am always ina quandry at Christmas and other major present buying times of the year.  I let the event overwhelm me, worrying about who might like this or that, and did I get a simlar thing before. . etc.  It has been the bane of my adult life – some people manage to swan… Read More Panic Not – Go Online For Painless Gift Buying

It has always been a bit of a dilemma to me whether to give household items, for example, dinnerware or kitchenalia, as christmas and birthday presents.  My own mother was absoltely anti such a practice and I can remember the look of thunder on her face when poor old dad made a classic error and… Read More Listening Well Gains Ideas For Desired Gifts

A young couple I know are in the middle of house exchange – having sold their delighful and much loved starter home of extremely modes proportion, they are making their way up the mortgage ladder to a bigger, stone conversion offering much bigger rooms.  This is all very exciting but also slightly worrying about how… Read More Property Move Calls For Enhanced Homeware Buying

Oh how we partied recently.  A relatives was having a shin-dig to celebrate a milestone birthday – the one between 20 and 40.  She’s not a party animal by any stretch of the imagination, and I was amazed when she consented to her partner getting one organised for her.  However, he only did the food… Read More Introducing Inspiring Gifts On A Shoestring

Chatting this morning to the kiddies who live next door – I discover they’d just returned from their ‘main’ summer holiday – a week’s all inclusive in Ibiza.  Apparently they’re expecting to go away again before the beginning of the next school term.   The kiddies were highly excited and said everything was fab,  the flight… Read More Online Shopping A Boon For Holiday Returnees

I have a young relative who has set up home with her partner – using the bank of mum and dad to get on that mortgage ladder.  There is so much to be acquired when setting up home together for the first time.  Although they both had gear left over from university, most of that… Read More Savvy Buying Online Equals Mastery Of The Budget

I live in a fairly unexciting town that had one sole industry – literally, they made shoes.  Thousands, in fact, probably millions , including for the army in the first and second world wars.  The whole of the town seems had connections with the industry the huge numbers of factories connected with shoe making meant… Read More Gift Buying Online Substitutes For Disappointing Outlets

Getting those extra gifts for the best family in the world  –  that is always a challenge isn’t it.  The shops in those gorgeous holiday villages always make their giftware look so enticing and to a certaine xtend I like to shop in each and every one of them, just to help them in their… Read More Browsing For One Off Giftware Proves Painfree Joy

We usually think of Christmas time as the main present and gift buying season – this of course starts just after Easter as far as the shops are concerned.  There never seems to be a gap between the seasons now and just as soon as one event has come upon us, and all the organising… Read More Needing Ever Expanding Giftware Choices

There are so many times in a year when  you suddenly realise that it’s a special birthday or notable anniversary approaching.  This calls to mind a few years ago when the grandparents  were celebrating that amazing Diamond 60th anniversary  It is some time ago now.  So much so that it was still considered unusual enough… Read More Celebrations Call For Gifts Of Distinction