Interesting Facts

According to research carried out by American Express, wedding guests in the UK spend around £640 each to attend nuptials. (Guests spent on average £114 on hotel accommodation, £112 on gifts and £105 on their outfit before they even factored in how they got there. On average it cost £96 to travel to the venue. Maybe we should just send the money to the happy couple.) 

According to a survey conducted by lastminute.com, nearly half of us will fake gratitude when we receive unwanted gifts this Christmas. (In the UK adults receive around eight Christmas presents each, and hate two of them, which means about of £4.4 billion is wasted on 104 million unwanted gifts every year. In 2013 it took just minutes before unwanted presents arrived on Ebay on Christmas Day!) Maybe we should take our lead from these kids:-