What to avoid at Christmas
Speaking exclusively to Fabulous Digital, money-saving guru Liz Edwards, who is Editor-in-Chief at personal finance comparison site, finder.com, reveals what she’ll be avoiding to save cash this Christmas.
Liz comments: “There’s terrible pressure on parents to spend more each year on teachers’ gifts.
“The internet is littered with stories of teachers, schools and even a council asking parents not to buy them, especially when they can’t really afford it.”
She goes on to note how last year, a £1 bar of chocolate wrapped in a child’s drawing was a hit with parents on Facebook as a cheaper way to thank teachers.
“A survey of 5,000 teachers by the Teacher Tapp app found overall that they’d rather get a homemade card than wine or chocolate (though the primary teachers preferred wine to a hand-drawn card – maybe they’d seen enough of those in December!),” Liz continues.
“An alternative is a group gift like a store voucher, with parents contributing what they can afford, and the teacher allowed to choose what they want.”
