...to think that £1.49 is daylight robbery for four small circles of card?

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I went into WHSmiths earlier with the intention of purchasing gift tags. £1.49 for either 4 or 6 little cardboard shapes on a piece of thread. Is this not just daylight fucking robbery?

I bought a pack of 48 perfectly tasteful die-cut tags in various festive shapes for 99p last year. (Not in WHSmiths, mind).

It's not even like it's a high-end shop FGS. £1.49! Don't even get me started on gift bags...

I got mine in QS - but mine are the little sticker type ones that you write on. 50 for £1.50 ish

unless they were in gold leaf YANBU

LOL this is the reason we made our own! Bought a bag full of gold and silver card, a mini set of christmas hole cutters and set to it!

I was quite shocked by prices of gift tags... didn't think of trying somewhere like QS (though don't think there is one in town, we do have a Primark though, wonder if they do gift tags).

Got 8 gift tags for £1 at Clinton Cards. Did look at their stickers but they wanted £2 for 12 stickers.

I don't bother with gift tags anymore, I now get sticky labels as they are easier and less likely to come off.

I got packs of them in asda, they just have "to........from.........." with cartoon reindeer etc.

or for next year, cut out pics from nice xmas cards hole punch and thread with cheap cord from pound shop

For future reference - save the christmas cards you get this year and use them to make gift tags for next year. Bit of gold string stuff, cut out a nice bit of the picture - bob's your uncle.

Tis part of the Christmas Stupidity Tax innit? All that money in landfill . They have us poncey types over a barrel (well, not me cos I make them. But in general). Gift bags are the absolute worst.

great minds, eh, ginger?

NOTHING to do with gift tags,in new Look today and was at brass neck of charging 3.99 for what was essentially 3 marshmallows on a stick

I keep all of the xmas cards we get and then cut out all the cute pictures etc and use them as labels the following year.

I think Poundland and the 99p shops do large packs but they sell out in about the third week of November so you have to be quick.

I like nice paper etc too, and like my tags to co-ordinate, but there is no need for them to cost so much! These were nothing special whatsoever.

it is a bit much.

I always save my christmas cards and use t hem to make gift tags the next year.

(you need pinking sheers and a hole punch)

I just use the bits of left over wrapping paper that aren't big enough for presents, fold them to make tags and stick them on with cellotape.

I print my own.

zukie, do you buy £50 ribbon too?

Gift bags are great!

They work their way round our families for years on end some of them.

Are you saying people bin them ?

£1 shop

How Smiths survive on the high street is a complete mystery to me. Their products are overpriced (books usually cheaper elsewhere) and the shops are a mess.

Then they make their poor shop assistants desperatly try and flog a bag of sweeties at the till on your way out. Horrible

Their website is surprisingly ok though. I like the gadgety gifts they have.

desperately oops!

Bendy, I reckon the airport and train station based shops where there is lack of choice and desperation to buy a book etc that makes them profitable...I reckon the high street based shops in smaller towns get some of the paddington station type overheads slapped onto them

OMG pedlars gift tags would be amazing.

I bet they'd be made of Victorian doilies, or tickets to the 1966 world cup final.