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30 great gift ideas for Credit Crunch Christmas
If you’re so skint this year that even a bag of satsumas is starting to look a bit out of your price range, don’t despair. We’ve got 30 of the best free (or at least really, really cheap) Christmas present ideas.
Credit Crunch Christmas: best e-cards
If you were worried last year that sending an e-card might be considered a little cheap, you can be sure that in the lead up to this Christmas no one will bat an eyelid.
Sometimes a cat is for Christmas . . .
Wait! No need to send that comment of complaint just yet! I know that a cat’s for life - honestly I do. But in the Hemingray household, this year, it is for Christmas too.
Bah humbug… is it Christmas already?
Just for the record I wanted to point out that Christmas is 6 whole weeks away.
Maybe I’m becoming a boring old stick in the mud, but it feels like Christmas starts earlier every year. Is it because of the credit crunch or do the shops always put up the tinsel and baubles in late October?
Chocoholic biodiesel gets truck to Timbuktu
As we settle back into the working week, Christmas already seems impossibly long ago: for most households only a few stubborn pine needles serve to remind us of all the recent shopping, feasting and clearing up.
That, and the mountain of chocolate in the fridge.
Through the mangle
Just before Christmas we hooked up our washer-drier to the power meter we’ve been using to test how much power typical home and office appliances use, and measured the electricity it consumed in a 60-degree wash.
Greenwashing?
With visiting relatives in need of clean bedclothes, table cloths picking up stains from wine, cranberries and chocolate, and tea towels mopping up more than their usual share of dishwater, Christmas is a pretty busy time for the average family washing machine.
Have a very merry green Christmas – send e-cards
***Our updated list of Christmas e-card sites for 2008 is now published. Click here.***
It’s not quite what Bing Crosby was dreaming of, but Edinburgh Council has urged residents to have a green Christmas this year.
