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What’s Your Budget? Alternative Christmas Gift Ideas
We know how this Christmas story goes: Dad’s getting a novelty tie. Mum’s heading for some new perfume. There’s a Cliff Richard calendar for nan in there somewhere, and Christmas shopping is shaping up to be exactly the same as last year. A recent survey by the Office for National Statistics suggests that our Christmas spending habits haven’t changed since 2006, but what about the gifts we buy? If you’re stuck buying the same thing every year, here are some alternative Christmas gift ideas for exactly the same old price. So without further ado…
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It’s December: Time to Release the Christmas Treets
To mark the start of December, we’ve released our Christmas Treets. Head on over to the Red Letter Days Christmas tree, where you can get yourself a little treat every day for the next 12 days. And don’t forget: the more you tweet about the “treets” with the hashtag: #RLDstar, the closer we get to revealing the star prize on Day 12. Happy shopping – bring on the festivities!
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Five Things You Need to Know About Black Friday
Psst… Check out our incredible Black Friday Deals here. Today is Black Friday, otherwise known as the ‘official’ start of the holiday shopping season. This annual event takes places the day after American Thanksgiving, when many popular retailers offer huge sales and discounts to get people in the spending mood and as it’s popularity increases, some of the UK’s biggest retailers are now getting involved! But where did it come from, and just how far will some people go to get a bargain? Find out below…
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Happy New Year!
…And we’re back for 2013! We hope you all had a lovely break over Christmas and New Year, and that you ended up getting everything you wanted. If you’re struggling to get back into the swing of things after the break, take a look at the discounted gift experiences in our annual January Sale. You could use the offers to learn a new skill in 2013 – how about some half price golf lessons or learning how to design your own jewellery? We’ll be back on Monday but until then, here’s a picture of a sleepy looking orangutan – because I think we can all relate to him at the moment.…
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Merry Christmas from Red Letter Days
It’s been a busy few weeks for us here on the Red Letter Days blog – but we’re now signing off for Christmas. We’ll be back in the new year with more things to make you smile, but until then, there’s plenty to keep you occupied in our small but perfectly formed archive – and don’t forget you can still get any last minute gifts delivered by e-voucher up until Christmas Day. Take a look at our Christmas opening hours if you need to get in touch over the holidays. We’ll see you back on the blog on the 4th January. From Issy, Angela and Dan – The Red Letter Days Blog…
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Ask Everyone: What Was Your Best Ever Christmas Gift?
Ask Everyone is our office Q&A, where we put a question to the staff at Red Letter Days and post their responses. Got a question you want us to ask? Get in touch! It will come as no surprise that as an experience company, the subject of gift giving tends to crop up quite a lot in our office (funnily enough, we’ve got a particular soft spot for the ones that come in envelopes). However, of all the presents you receive throughout the year, it’s the ones you get at Christmas that you often remember years later. To test this theory, this month’s question put to the team was: “What was your…