It’s the most wonderful time of the year…and normally the most stressful too! Shopping goes from a pleasurable way to spend a few hours with your girlfriends to a cutthroat, hostile war zone. So let Semple take some of the stress out of your Christmas shopping with our Christmas gift guide: Husband/Boyfriend/It’s Complicated Picking a...Read More
December has arrived and it’s officially okay to break out the Eggnog and your favourite festive jumper and start getting excited about Christmas. The fairy lights have been switched on everywhere and it’s only a matter of time before your social diary starts to get full. Holidays are officially coming! But no sooner than you...Read More
Whether the origins of Christmas link back to Christianity or pagan festivities that celebrated Winter, the truth is that the essence of this holidays has been corrupted by the greedy religion of marketing. In some households, the love of sharing of Christmas Day lasts for just that, one day. If on the 24th children go...Read More
Sophie Maguire asks “Is it incessant greed, pride or just plain consumer brainwashing that has us spending money we just realistically don’t have?” Nowadays Father Christmas is quite possibly a sexual deviant, carolers are hooded yobs looking to make a quick buck, toy stores are crowded and overflowing with spoilt children and our time-honoured Christmas...Read More
So there is now one week to go until the big day. It’s normally around this time, after traipsing round a million shops and nursing yet another Christmas party hangover, that we start to wonder why the hell we bother anyway! There are presents to wrap, trees to decorate and Christmas songs to be badly...Read More
As a woman, making tough decisions is part and parcel of our daily lives. Whether its making up your mind between two equally stunning pair of shoes when, alas, you can only warrant the one pair; or deciding between attending that evening spin class or catching up on the soaps with a share size bag...Read More
In almost every wardrobe I have the pleasure of de-cluttering and restyling, I find them. Sometimes in a shoe box, sometimes in a carrier bag, sometimes in its original wrapping paper, but nonetheless there lies the hangover from the Christmas before the Christmas before: the unwanted gifts that never had stood a chance. It’s always...Read More
So Lords have started leaping and the geese are getting fat; like it or not Christmas is well and truly on its way. Whether you are a fully-fledged Christmas Elf or a scroogy bar-humbug type it’s time to face those packed high streets and more importantly get your wishlist off to Santa! Satuma’s and mince...Read More
As we are sat slumped on the sofa after a day or two of massive overindulgence, there are a lot of people contemplating what to do with their unwanted Christmas presents. In fact, it’s a pretty safe bet that, if you were to search eBay for the most recently listed items, the vast majority would...Read More
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