Win a Green Heart Print Fashion Scarf in my Blog Giveaway

Posted on 12:20pm Thursday 20th Sep 2018

Welcome to my latest Lylia Rose scarf giveaway!

If you love printed scarves, pop over to my online fashion accessories boutique for a good browse where you'll find lots of different designs in stock, perfect all year round indoors and out! Perfect for the upcoming nippy autumn weather.

They are only £8 each and 2nd class UK delivery is free. They are perfect as gifts for her.

Win this scarf in my blog giveaway:

More about the scarf

These beautiful scarves could also be used as sarongs, head scarves or even as breast feeding covers! These scarves have so many other uses too. Pop over and read Five Other Ways to Use Your Fashion Scarf for inspiration!

Important information:

- Approximate size of scarf 180cm by 100cm

- Soft printed poly fabric

- Hand wash only

- The scarves are protected in waterproof poly packaging.

- Dispatched in 100% bio-degradable environmentally friendly mailing bags.

- To keep waste to a minimum invoices and unnecessary packaging will not be added to your order.

Don’t bin it!

I really hope you’ll love your new scarf for years to come, but if you ever get bored of it, please don’t throw it away. Landfills are too full of things that can be reused, reworn and recycled. For inspiration on what to do with your worn out or unwanted clothes and textiles, please read my blog post: 13 ways to get rid of unwanted clothes (without binning them)

Enter here:

The full terms and conditions are below, but simply enter using one or more of the entry methods in the Rafflecopter widget below and remember, if you win your delivery address must be in the UK.

Check out my Giveaways section for more amazing prizes!

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Win an iPad by guessing which generation was most expensive

Posted on 2:45pm Wednesday 19th Sep 2018

How much was a McDonald’s cheeseburger in the 60s and did a mobile phone really cost £14,460 in the 80s?

Age UK Mobility currently have a great giveaway on their website to win an iPad. It’s also a fun giveaway! It’s called The Generation Game and you have to guess in which generation things were most expensive from the 60s through to the 00s. Prices are adjusted to allow for inflation and some of the answers will surprise you.

Spoiler Alert!

I am going to talk about some of the answers in this post, so if you want to try it without knowing some answers then simply click the link above to try for yourself, then come back to see if you thought the same as me.

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I did think that a lot of the goods such as mobile phones, TVs, cars and even a pint of Guinness would probably be most expensive now, but when looking in relation to inflation and the relevant wages, the answers may shock you! I did think their estimate of £14,460 for a mobile phone in the 80s was exaggerated, but then I found this article which says in 1983 the first Motorola cell phone was $3995, so it’s true! No more complaining about the iPhone being expensive… look at what our phones can do today compared to a phone costing that much in the 80s that could only take and receive calls! Crazy! I bet people in the 80s were amazed by the potential of them and weren’t complaining about people on mobile phones all the time.

A McDonald’s cheese burger was most expensive in the 60s at over £4, which is a good thing. Junk food should be expensive and less readily available than healthy food. Unfortunately they have got cheaper over time, much to the destruction of our environment, health and the poor animals.

TVs, albums and a train journey from London to Heathrow were all most expensive in the 60s. Now I can’t totally remember what I entered, but I do remember purchasing my very first album in the 90s! It was the All Saints tape pack released in November 1997 and I walked up to Safeway to buy it. I didn’t even have a CD player back then and I would have been 12 years old!

A quick Google search tells me a Sony Walkman was $200 in 1980, with inflation that makes it more expensive than iPods nowadays! Though to be fair, most of us just combine our mobile phone with being a music player too.

Not being a drinker (of alcohol) for over 7 years I had no idea how much a pint cost, maybe around £4-£5 I reckon in our local pubs, but the quiz puts a pint of Guinness at most expensive in the noughties.

Finally, a Mini is most expensive now. A brand new 2018 Mini Cooper is £15000. No wonder most of us opt for second-hand vehicles only.

Doing the quiz will certainly open your eyes to how different products prices have changed over time. Some for the good and some for the bad!

To enter, try out the quiz for yourself and then add your email for a chance to win and to reveal the actual results and your score. Enter for a chance to win an iPad here: https://www.ageukmobility.co.uk/mobility-news/article/the-generation-game-quiz

Good luck!

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Win a £30 Amazon UK eGift voucher in my blog giveaway

Posted on 11:00am Wednesday 12th Sep 2018

Welcome to my latest Lylia Rose blog giveaway. The prize is a £30 Amazon UK gift voucher to spend on whatever your heart desires, well if Amazon sell it! This could be a great head start on your Christmas shopping, or the perfect excuse to treat yourself to something nice. Plus you can shop from the comfort of your own home and I'll email the code straight to your inbox, so very little effort on your part, aside from making use of all the different entry options in the Rafflecopter widget below. Some of them can be done daily too, so pop back tomorrow, and the next day, and the next for lots of entries and more chance to win!

Photo by Charles Deluvio