Why don’t you treat your mum this Mother’s Day (the 14th of March)? Here at Give or Take we have picked out a few ideas to get you started and what’s more you will earn cashback on everything you purchase through the site.

If your mum has a sweet tooth, then why not get her the Exuberantly Fruity selection from Hotel Chocolat? Each chocolate contains an explosion of fruitiness combined with the smooth creamy chocolate texture – available for £19.50 with 7% cashback.

Alternatively why not say it with flowers? There is no better way to brighten up a room, and say ‘I Love You Mum’ at the same time. Order your flowers online today with Bunches and receive free chocolates with every purchase two presents for the price of one and also receive 10% cashback.

If your mum prefers something a little more personalised then check out Not On The High Street.com. They have many gifts that can be personalised, including a hand painted vintage style sign. You can choose a phrase to appear; the default is “I have the best mother ever”, but you can enter whatever you think your mum will like – from £16 with 10% cashback.

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Love is in the air and Valentine’s Day just around the corner. Are you panicking because you’ve not reserved a table yet?

Well don’t. If all the top restaurants in town are booked up then all’s not lost; turn your home into your own Personal Restaurant for Two with Give or Take and have a romantic evening in with your partner:

• Dinner: Get in touch with your inner Delia or Jamie and hit the kitchen, you don’t have to be a professional to cook a fantastic meal. Click here for some great recipes that can be found on the Tesco website. Plus click through Give or Take to Tesco for those all important ingredients and receive £5 cashback if you are a new customer to them.
  

• Set the Mood: Creating that perfect mood couldn’t be simpler. Order some candles and place them around the room this will create soft lighting. Don’t forget the music. As Shakespeare once said, if music be the food of love, play on.  Download your favourite love songs onto your iPod, or buy your choice of CD’s that you can play for the duration of the evening. Visit HMV and get 4% cashback on all CD purchases.

• Dress Up: Just because you’re staying in that’s no reason to put your pyjamas on. Make the extra effort to dress up for your romantic evening. Ladies get your best dresses out, guys make an effort and get suited and booted.

Your home has now become your own personal restaurant for two. You have cooked the food, set the mood and your dressed to impress all you have to do now is sit down and enjoy your fabulous dinner.

Don’t forget with companies such as Thornton’s and Bunches on Give or Take you can buy those Valentine’s Day flowers and chocolates and get up to 12% cashback. Also shop at Oddbins for your favourite bottle or wine or champagne for that extra special evening and get 5% cashback. Happy Valentines!

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The Give or Take Christmas competition kicks off this month with over £400 worth of prizes to be won!

For your chance to win all you have to do is make a sale at the stores listed below between December 1st – Jan 29th and you will automatically be entered into our Christams draw. Winners will be announced on the blog on February 1st. So keep an eye on the blog to see if you have been lucky!

Start shopping for your chance to win…

• £100 M&S voucher
• £50 Play.com voucher
• a pair of  ‘dhb pro triple lens sunglasses’ from Wiggle
• £50 Zavvi voucher
• £50 voucher for The Hut
• £30 Miss Selfridge voucher
• £50 e-voucher to spend online at Kitbag

…and the Christmas good will doesn’t end there as there is still loads of cashback to be earnt on every purchase you make via Give or Take!

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Dads are tricky to buy for as they always seem to have everything!  So if you are stuck for inspiration this Father’s Day maybe these great offers will give you a few gift ideas to think about.

If your Dad is a bit of an ‘action man’ then take a look at Red Letter Days. You can get 10% discount with code GIVEORTAKE and 3% cashback on all experience days.

Update your Dad’s wardrobe in the Debenhams up to 50% off sale, and earn 4% cashback on everything you buy!

Maybe your Dad likes a good book?  Well you can buy him twice as many in the Waterstones up to 50% off sale and pocket 5% cashback. If you spend over £15 then delivery is free.

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Don’t forget Mother’s Day March 22nd! If you haven’t even thought about what to buy your beloved Mum don’t worry because we have had all the “thoughts that count” for you!

If your Mum has a sweet tooth then this will be perfect. “Best Mum Gift Box” from Thorntons 305g of continental choc, and a hand painted mug ideal if she likes nothing better than a nice cup of tea and the odd choc! £28 with 12% cashback

If your Mum is green fingered, and deserves a break from all the gardening why not buy her some flowers from M&S. This purchase will automatically enter your Mum into their “win mum a spa break” competition where she could be enjoying a luxury spa break for 2! Large March bouquet £35 with 5% cashback.

If your Mum prefers an ice cold G&T to luke warm tea and chocs and has a wicked sense of humour to boot then she will love this. These novlety titanic and ice burgh ice cube shapes from I Want One Of Those are hillarious. She can use them everytime she makes herself a Gin & Titonic! £5.99 with 15% cashback

There are a few ideas to get you going the card and wrapping is up to you!…

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With Valentines Day only 3 weeks away here are some top gift ideas.
You don’t have to spend a fortune to show how much you care, it’s the little details that count.  Hand writing your card, and wrapping presents yourself is one way, and another is to go that extra mile to look for a unique present. Well you don’t have to put in that effort because I’ve done it for you!

Even if you aren’t a big romantic the least you can do is exchange cards. Not On The High Street.com have a fabulous range of hand made quirky cards, made by the individual sellers that create their site’s products. I have a soft spot for one with a retro fabric owl on it that says ‘owlways and forever’. Cheesey but I can’t help myself!
Get 10% cashback from Not On The High Street.com

If your better half is a chocoholic check out the snazzy chocolate on offer at Thorntons. I think these kissing love birds are great! What says ‘I love you’ better than 2 smooching chocolate birds?… Only £6 with 8% cashback

If you want to say it with flowers then add a little twist to the traditional dozen red roses with these ‘Happy Roses’ from Valueflora. £24.95 for one or £69.99 for a bouquet of 12. Multicoloured gems that will put a smile on anybodies face!
13% cashback at Valueflora.

If you want to give the gift of music then click on down to the Apple store where you can get 2.5% cashback. There’s free origami style gift wrapping and personalised engraving on all iPods until Feb 14th. If you are stuck for ideas as to what to have engraved they have an engraving gallery full of ideas. My favourite is ‘this one goes out to the one I love’  Aaaahhhhhhhhh…   x

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Spend this Halloween freaking yourself out and making yourself laugh with some wonderful classic horror movies. Take yourself back to a time before C.G.I. when dry ice was king, and spooky costumes consisted of fake wooden limbs and lashings of grease paint. 1960’s Frankenstein may have only been a tall man in a wig, who was painted green but he still has the power to scare your socks off!

Nothing says scary to me like spiders! They look like creatures from outer space, they’re hairy, scuttle sideways, and spin webs. What’s not to be scared of?… So just imagine what would happen if they became gigantic! Arrrrgh!

‘Tarantula’ (great title) is a 1955 classic. When Dr Reemer’s special super-size serum somehow finds its way by accident onto a tarantula all hell breaks loose! As cattle and humans start disappearing at an alarming rate it’s up to local doctor Matt Hastings, and his curvaceous assistant to save the day. Expect girlish shrieking, fake hairy spider leg close ups, but essentially everything turns out ok. £4.99 free delivery from Play.com and up to 6% cashback.

Another winning formula for horror is to set your film in an American high school, throw in a little crazy religion, some demonic possession, and bucket fulls of fake blood, and you’ve got the blockbuster ‘Carrie’. I’m ashamed to say I have only recently watched Carrie myself, and it made me wonder why I didn’t spend my childhood stuck indoors watching endless videos of American teen horror because it is brilliant! Just like all moves of this genre the eerie suspense keeps you on edge for the whole movie. The juxtaposition of the seemingly normal school with the supernatural powers of Carrie, and the ravings of her demented mother is a nice touch. I dare you to watch it, and not get just a little bit spooked, especially at the end when she….nope I’m not going to spoil it! Carrie £4.99 free delivery from Play.com and up to 6% cashback.

It wouldn’t be Halloween without vampires! ‘Nosferatu’ a.k.a. Phantom of the Night is a Klaus Kinski classic. Deep-sunken eyed and pale faced Nosferatu lives in a large gloomy castle which appears out of the the mist. Like a lamb to the slaughter real estate agent Jonathan Haker travels to Nosferatu’s castle to tie up a property deal, despite the warnings of his wife who has been having terrible haunting premonitions! I think you can probably guess what happens next …. biting …screaming …fangs …coffins …all the classic vampire cliches.
You might say this film is fang-tastic! £2.99 from Play.com free delivery, and up to 6% cashback

Click here to shop for classic horror

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THORNTONS ARE OFFERING 20% OFF ALL ORDERS UNTIL FRIDAY 20th JUNE,
AND THERE’S 8% CASHBACK!

If you’re anything like me when it comes to chocolate then this offer will have you in a spin. Screw the new years resolutions they are long gone, and say ‘adios’ to the bikini diet and buy yourself some choccy! I think that a little bit of what you fancy does you good! I’m fed up of those preachy ‘extreme makeover-10 years younger-how to look good naked-what not to wear’ shows telling me how to eat, dress, walk, talk, think, and blink.
We all know a balanced diet and exercise is key to a healthy lifestyle blah blah blah……. but we also know that chocolate tastes nice, and 20% off chocolate tastes even nicer!

I am a sucker for dark chocolate. The higher the cocoa percentage, and the more bitter the better!
This little gem caught my eye…
Continental Dark Collection 30 chocs, 400gms of dark chocolaty loveliness!
Was £11.00, but with 20% off it’s only £8.99 with 8% cashback.

If you are a milk chocolate muncher then what about this?…
Continental Milk Truffles Bag 100gms – a selection of Thornton’s finest milk chocolate truffles.
Was £2.99 but with 20% off it’s now only £2.30 with 8% cashback. How can you resist?…

Now here is a little something for you professional, seasoned, die hard, dedicated chocoholics!
Prepare yourself for…(*pause deep breath*)…the ‘I Love Chocolate Hamper’.
1294 gms of toffee, vanilla fudge, milk, white, dark, and belgian chocolate, praline, cho chip cookies, and fudge.
It’s heaven in a chocolate brown coloured box! I don’t advise eating it all in one sitting! I want to buy this and hide it so that I can have a little something from it every day (yes I am one of those people who saves their Easter eggs!)
The ‘I Love Chocolate Hamper’ was £27.50 but with 20% off it’s only £22 with 8% cashback.

Enjoy!

Click here to go straight to Throntons and start choc shopping!

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We have Boney M to thank for the musical masterpiece that is ‘Daddy Cool’. If you have a ‘Daddy Cool’ and you want to let him know how much you appreciate all he’s done then get him a great gift this Father’s Day.
Father’s Day is Sunday June 15th this year, so with only 11 shopping days left to get him something special or just plain silly we’ve giving you some handy hints…

If your Daddyo has a sweet tooth then this ’sweet memories hamper’ will be right up his street! Crammed with retro sweets from the good ol’ days buy him a tuck box of his very own.
The medium hamper is 1.9kg of sweets for £19.95 with 12% cashback available from BoysStuff.

Buy your Dad some giggles for the golf course with these ‘Crazy Golf Balls’. This set of 4 trick golf balls are the ideal antidote to golfing partners who take things a little too seriously! Aptly named The Exploder, The Phantom, The Unputtable, and The Jetstreamer they wobble, disappear, explode, and eject streamers when hit!
Available from I Want One Of Those for £7.99 with 13% cashback.

If your dad likes the occasional tipple then get him this nifty key ring bottle opener. Shaped like a key, but with the bottle popping power of a regular bottle opener. It’s a cool little gizmo that will make your dad smile, Cheers!
£6.95 from Prezzybox with 10% cashback.

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Trying to think of Mother’s Day gift ideas? What about a magazine subscription?…

Get your Mum a subscription to her favourite mag, then she can make a cup of tea, put her feet up, read, and relax…..Bliss!

Great Magazines are currently offering 15% cashback on subscriptions, and have a great range of titles to chose from.

What are you waiting for?. . .

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