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23rd Dec 09
What Would Happen if You Told Your Nan the Present She Got You Was Indeed Rubbish?
by David Davies
Golf clubs. Your Nan just got you golf clubs for Christmas. You don’t even like golf. You professed a passing interest in the career of Tiger Woods, but this was mainly slackjawed awe at the amount of sponsorship money he was raking in. Some sponsorship money would have been a great present. Each club individually [...]
(Read More)18th Dec 09
Why Giving Discounted Gifts is Right
by David Davies
Somewhere along the line, giving discounted gifts got a bad reputation. Buying for others at a discount marks you out as a cheapskate, someone trying to get the maximum bang for their buck without due thought for the recipient. The word ‘discount’, thanks to a massive conceptual cleft in the market between volume buying and [...]
(Read More)11th Dec 09
Top Christmas Toys for 2009
by David Davies
I remember getting a Thunderbirds Tracy Island one Christmas. I was the perfect age for the revitalised interest in Gerry Anderson’s 60s TV series. It was a magical contraption, designed exactly how I would have designed it if only the bods at the toy companies knew that the real way to make good toys was [...]
(Read More)3rd Dec 09
Christmas gifts for the petrolhead
by Chas Parker
There’s less than a month to go before Christmas now so it’s time to start making your lists of what you’re going to buy your favourite petrolhead as a present.
Or, if you’re the petrolhead, it’s time to start dropping hints about what you want so you don’t end up with the proverbial pair of Christmas [...]
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