The Shopping Squirrel

Heal's - gifts for under £15

2006-11-13T13:58:00.000-08:00

Heal's currently have a good selection of gift ideas on their website, conveniently categorized into sections for under £15, £25 and £35. No great reductions but some different ideas for those stuck on what to buy this Christmas.

Find out more here: Heals

DD Entertainment offer.

2006-11-10T13:29:00.000-08:00

DD Entertainment are offering the Complete Gerry Anderson Boxset for an unbelievable price of £39.99 (£200 off the retail value!).

18 DVDs containing every episode of Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and Stingray ever broadcast.

Should keep somebody quiet over the entirety of Christmas AND New Year!

Here's the offer.

Play.com's October Blowout

2006-11-10T13:23:00.000-08:00

Play.com have a bunch of low price PSP games in their October Blowout (yes I know it's November now but I'm not going to tell them!).

Titles start from £9.99 and include the likes of FIFA 2006, Metal Gear Acid and Splinter Cell Essentials.

Go to offer - Play.com

Dyson DC15 Ball less than half price at Comet.

2006-11-10T13:12:00.000-08:00

Comet currently have an offer on a Dyson Ball vacuum cleaner which normally retails at £329. With this deal you can grab yourself a Ball at the bargain price of £164 with delivery from £5.95 and a free 5 year guarantee!

Here's the link - Comet

The Xmas Rush Begins....

2006-11-10T08:26:00.000-08:00

Well it's my first posting on this blog so I guess I should explain a little bit about what this blog is about.

As Christmas approaches this year I decided for once in my life to actually get my arse in gear and get the shopping done and out of the way before we even hit December. This is a first for me and I'm probably about a 1/3 of the way there so far. Anyhow I do most of my shopping online now as it just takes the stress and strain out of running around all those shops carrying bag and bags of goodness knows what. Hey I'm a guy, I'm lazy, I like the easy life.

This year I've noticed an interesting online trend of offering all kinds of interesting deals to tempt shoppers into parting with their hard earned cash. Now I scurry around for hours on the net trying to find myself the best deal, looking through all the different shopping search engines, comparing all the prices and by the time I'm done it probably would've been easier just going into town, buying what I wanted for the full price and then having a relaxing time in front of the telly.

Whatever happens I'm always going to search out the best deals anyway and then I realised the other day I could be nice and pass on some of this wisdom to fellow UK online shoppers (that's you!), and save you wasting your lives hunting around. Christmas in particular is an expensive time and if you buy from some of the deals out there you could save a lot of money.

Now I'm only one guy and I have a full-time job to look after too so I'll try and update this site as often as I can (every day I hope), but also this site is open to comments too so if you people out there find a great deal work talking about please post it up here.