@steveTu It is ‘safer’ to send postal orders through the post if you do it correctly and the sender completes and retains the counter foil ... but so many grannies and aunties put the whole thing in the post. Vouchers are the same ... much more secure in the post if the sender retains the receipt ... but so few do.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I prefer garden vouchers because that's money earmarked for the garden rather than just being absorbed into general funds - which, happily, I'm not short of. But if anyone wants to give me money that's fine too, and I try to bear it in mind when I'm ordering plants on line, so I needn't feel I'm being extravagant. As a child I was always delighted with a book token. We lived in London, and my dad would take a day off work between Christmas and the new term, and take me to Foyles to spend them.
My how i loved book tokens as a child. They meant a trip to the wonderful Castle Bookshop in Framlingham and at least a couple of hours choosing a book while Ma did grocery and other shopping at the marketplace. Such a treat ❤️ I had a Waterstones token for my birthday this year ... loved it ... I bought a couple of novels and some poetry I really wanted ... they felt like an indulgence ... but that’s what a present should feel like 🎁
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I never got them as a child, but my students would give me them eot or at Christmas. I found them difficult to spend as I wanted to spend them on something to justify the money that some of them could ill-afford.
I don't mind vouchers if they are for a garden center or a book shop but all we get is kitchen stores and clothes shops *shudder* I don't need more kitchen things and clothes URGH. We always get money on our birthdays and we put it all in a pot over the years it builds up and when we want something special we have a few hundred pounds (equivalent) to buy something with.
A bad time to rip off voucher buyers just before Christmas. Maybe it's time to give the cash that's been mouldering in your purse/ wallet for close on a year. Have you noticed how bad it smells? 😞
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I had a Waterstones token for my birthday this year ... loved it ... I bought a couple of novels and some poetry I really wanted ... they felt like an indulgence ... but that’s what a present should feel like 🎁
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Maybe it's time to give the cash that's been mouldering in your purse/ wallet for close on a year. Have you noticed how bad it smells? 😞