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Save money and stay safe – when helping out with Covid19
15th of April, 2020Are you shopping for your neighbours, or volunteering to help others with the Covid crisis? We’re all trying to do our bit these days. And shopping for friends and neighbours is a really great way to help out. However, you may have some concerns about handling cash, or managi...
Get an extension on your Giftcard Expiry Date
8th of April, 2020Are you worried that you’re going to lose your giftcard because you can’t spend it? One of the problems with giftcards and gift vouchers, is that they often have an expiry date. And time goes by so fast that sometimes we can totally forget that we have t...
Easter Bonnet Competition
2nd of April, 2020Feeling bored or fed up under Coronavirus Lockdown? Well get your crafting kit out, get the kids involved and join in with our Easter Bonnet competition, to win a £10 giftcard. Let's light up Facebook, Twitter and Instagram with bright and beautiful photos of bonnets, hats and baskets, an...
Office hours - Incoming/Outgoing post
2nd of April, 2020Updated 25th January 2021This is an update to our previous blog post. We have reduced our office presence to comply with government guidance for reducing travel and contact, and this further affects incoming physical 'sell' gift car...
Step away from the panic buying – buy smarter and SAVE MONEY!
1st of April, 2020Panic is a self-perpetuating cycle. It drives us to make some foolish decisions. Like buying what we don’t need, stock-piling, or not buying in the smartest way.How to stop panic-buying When we understand the process of panic, then it’s much easier to deal with. Panic stems fr...
Keep on keeping on – but don’t keep your gift cards!
30th of March, 2020It’s tough out there. We’re social distancing, being responsible and doing the very best we can. However some of us are finding times extra tough, and just at the moment you think you’ll be able to spend your #GiftCards for Tesco’s, you realise it’s outside your local area– and the only st...
Part 2 "Keep cycling (your giftcards)"
30th of March, 2020"Cycle" your giftcards to get what you really wantAnother story in our riveting series of people-who-get a-better-deal-from-their-gift-cards…. Paul's storyPaul got a Sainsbury’s vouche...
Amazon.com – extend your reach – and get 12% off!*
26th of March, 2020Always been a fan of Amazon but not stretched into the zone of Amazon (dot) com yet? Well here’s your invitation. Cardyard has a stock of Amazon.com cards which, right now, are an EVEN BETTER deal than Amazon.co.uk Added to the exciting cost savi...
Take a deep breath and "buy like a boss"
26th of March, 2020How you can save £££'s when you stop and take a moment first... We have all heard about the panic buying that’s rife in our supermarkets, with the onset of Covid-19. Precisely why this is happening, is because of a whole range of rea...
Cardyard - a love story
25th of March, 2020Sam wanted a new sound system.She’d shopped around and found one at Currys PC World.However it was £220 and she’d budgeted £200. She decided she was going to spend the full £220 (which she figured meant she couldn’t go out at the weekend.) Fortunately she told her friend Zach what she was...