Financial & Travel Musings

Just because you can do something doesn’t mean that you should do it.

Until recently it was quite expensive to personalise products but as we’ve all seen there’s a massively growing market in t-shirts while you wait and so on. Now it does seem to make sense to have personalizable coffee mugs and perhaps pens, the range of items that you can personalise these days does seem to be getting out of hand. Do you really need to have your name embossed on  your laptop? Perhaps it makes sense for security, but what when you come to sell it?

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A few years ago renaming brands so that a single product name could be used across the world was all the rage. Thus we have Snickers instead of Marathon, Starburst instead of Opal Fruits and so on.

Oddly though it seems to have passed by gateway laptops who sell as Gateway in America but until quite recently as eMachines in Europe. Quite why that should be so is something of a mystery as computers are a product that you’d expect to see marketed similarly around the world these days.

Why, of course, leaves the puzzle as to why they’re absorbing eMachines into Acer at the moment and offloading a lot of eMachines at bargain basement prices.

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The price of weddings seems on a never ending spiral upwards with not only inflation to contend with but increasing requirements for little extras around the main business of the wedding too.

So, as well as the wedding invitations, you now need to send “save the date” cards so that people can pencil the big event into their diaries even further in advance than they used to. Those bits of admin mean that it’s not uncommon to need a wedding planner to pull all the various bits and pieces together so that the day is a success.

Even for the main items it’s becoming more of a hassle with the need to co-ordinate the bridesmaid dresses with the rest of the stylistic features of the wedding.

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