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GiftTRAP wins GAMES Magazine’s “Best Party Game of the year 2007/2008”

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Puts your gifts to the test!

GiftTRAP is the hilarious new game that’s taking the gaming world by storm and putting the social back into board games.

The goal is to really get to know your friends and family.

You win by knowing your friends and choosing the right gifts, but most of all it’s just fun to play and gets you talking about things that matter.

• 3-8 Players, 5+
• Playtime 45-75 mins
• Learn in 10 mins

• 1 full size game board
• 640 Gift Ideas
• Rules
• 8 Organza Gift Bags containing; scoring markers, gift & choice tokens plus advanced strategy cards

Love to play Trivial Pursuit, Cranium or Apples to Apples - You will love this family party game.

GiftTRAP is all the fun of Secret Santa without needing to shop or wrap.

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What kind of Gift Giver are you?

Gift Giving: A big unwanted $35,000 problem!

Hiding in the cupboard, returning to the store, selling on eBay, re-gifting, garage sales and charity shops; there are many ways to dispose of unwanted gifts.

Here’s some interesting statistics on gift giving, interesting given the theme of the game;

- 40% of gifts are a disappointment to the recipient
- Therefore 40% of the gifts we give are unwanted
- The average person gives 29 presents per year
- The average gift costs US$52
- The annual gift spend per person is US$1,500
- Lifetime cost of gift giving : US$87,000 per person
- Lifetime cost of bad gifting : US$35,000 per person

What else could you buy with an extra $35,000? Look here for some ideas!
Is this connected to the fact that we are all so short of time? Do we have the time to really pick the perfect gift? How well do we really know our friends? How well do they know us?
Is it not time we stood up and confessed to the giver? Etiquette seems to declare we do not tell the giver - meaning we get the same lousy gift next time around!

If you can’t handle dropping hints to Aunt Flo or Uncle Joe to improve their poor gifting, try giving them GiftTRAP next holiday and save your family a heap of cash! Who knows it may improve the gifts you give too! It could be the best investment you make this year.

Research :

UK homewares giant, Habitat surveyed 1,000 people on their gift giving habitats. The research was was picked up by a number of local newspapers and magazines quoting Victoria Eden, Habitat UK PR Manager (we converted all £ values from the UK study into US$)

Sources

Which Magazine : Britons drowning in clutter mountain

Daily Mail : How was waste £19,000 on gifts

Britons are drowning under a mountain of unwanted gifts that they’re too embarrassed to return, a new survey reveals today.

Homewares giant Habitat says the average person buys 29 presents each year and 40 per cent of these will be a disappointment to the recipient.

The survey of 1,000 people also found that 57 per cent of British households have been too embarrassed to return any unloved presents, while an enterprising 20 per cent have passed an unwanted gift on as a present to someone else.

Habitat also says that two thirds of the public haven’t cleared out their clutter for more than six months.
Gift service

Victoria Eden of Habitat said: People need to be smarter about their giving. With so many homes kitted out with the latest mod cons it is time to give people something they actually want and can chose themselves.

ёWe found that half of the respondents would rather have vouchers or money than gifts that have been purchased sporadically.

Habitat revealed the results of the survey at the launch of a new gift service. It offers an account to which friends and family pledge money and the cash can then be used to buy what you want. You can register online, over the phone on 020 7614 5397 or in any Habitat store.

Source : Which Magazine :  http://www.which.co.uk/reports_and_campaigns/house_and_home/Reports/family/British_clutter_mountain_news_article_557_92827.jsp

How we waste £19,000 on Gifts

From socks to novelty jumpers the average Briton speond £18,800 buying unwanted presents in a lifetime according to a survey.

And the research reveals that 57% of recipients are too embarassed to return them.

More than a fifth sell the unwanted gifts on an Internet auction site and 23% give them to charity.

A shameless 20% re-wrap them to give to someone else.

The survey, by Habitat, found that Britons buy an average of 29 presents every year, at a total cost of £825; meaning they spend £47,000 over a lifetime.

More than a quarter of people surveyed said they had received more than one of the same gift before.

Victoria Eden, from Habitat, said: ‘People need to me smarter about their giving. With so many homes kitted out with the latest mod cons it is time to actually give people something they actually want and can choose themselves. We found that half of the respondents would rather have vouchers’/

The Habitat research also discovered that we are a nation of hoarders

- two thirds of us have not cleared out our clutter from our houses for more than six months
- one in ten has not had a clearout in more than five years

Sound : Daily Mail Monday 21st of August 2006