The Alco-Shops
feature is where I attempt to make you aware of interesting and useful places
that you can use for buying booze, and with Christmas approaching, I thought
I’d start a sequence of three posts that might help you out with your Christmas
shopping, which officially started this week. So I want to introduce you to
HotUKDeals, if you aren’t already aware of it, then next week (and the week
after) I’ll move on to giving you some whisky buying advice, before moving on
to some festive drinking activities. After that I’ll be in Canada indulging in
some booze tourism while I visit the in-laws, but I will be back in January to
start Drink It How You Like It’s
third year of existence. How time flies when you’re drinking heavily…
Hotukdeals is
basically a member site (though you don’t have to be a member) where people
post all the bargains they’ve found online and in the shops. It covers nearly
all genres of stuff, though some of
the items make you wonder how people can be bothered to post about them at all
(what?!). It could be something as inane as a Cadburys Crème Egg for 25p in
Spar, or at the complete opposite end of the spectrum it could be a speedboat
for £9000, reduced from £13500. This can be an invaluable resource when the
time comes around for you to be thinking about what to buy people for
Christmas. Sometimes you just don’t know what to get, do you? Well, just have a
browse and you’ll be given bargain present ideas, and directed to various
vouchers and sales.
More relevant to
this blog though, is that you also get posts about cheap booze - one of the
users actually provides a price comparison across a number of spirits in the
main supermarkets, so that can be quite useful, especially if you’re stocking
up for a party.
Occasionally you’ll
see something you actually have to go
and get. It niggles at you and forces you to go way out of your way, and the
while time you’re on edge – what if
they’ve run out by the time I get there?
I was recently
forced to abscond from work for 45 minutes so that I could walk over to the
nearest Asda where HotUKDeals had informed me they were selling bottles of
Bruichladdich Rocks for £20 – an offer I couldn’t refuse. The normal price was
quoted around £26, but I’ve seen it priced around £30 previously. The 20cl
bottle my brother-in-law had given me the previous Christmas went down a treat,
and I’d promised myself I’d buy a full size bottle the next time I got a
chance. Well, here it was.
It did conflict with
the other vow I’d made to myself about not buying another bottle until next
month, but for some things you gots to make exceptions, and since it was a
beautiful day, it made sense to sit out in the garden with it as soon as I got
home.
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| Bruichladdich Rocks in the garden. Thanks. Hotukdeals! |
That name again,
it’s www.hotukdeals.com.
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