Ask Her Friends Website Review

I love Christmas. Really really really love it. I love the cold weather, curling up in woolly things and fluffy socks, the food, cinnamon candles and the festive spirit. But most of all I love giving presents! (And lets be honest, I love receiving them too ;) ). So when I got an email asking me to check out a new website called AskHerFriends to help present buying I was really interested.

Ask Her Friends is a website which helps guys to pick out presents for their female loved ones (although I've been using it to find my mum pressies!). The website asks you who you're buying for (for me I chose mother), then price range (I chose £30-£60) and then there are two options 'That's all I know' or 'Wait there's more'. If you select 'That's all I know' you get loads of possible presents turn up, which isn't too helpful. But if you chose 'Wait there's more' (and hopefully most people know at least a little about the person they're buying for :P) you get further questions about the person to help narrow down the presents.

Ask Her Friends homepage

The question part is called the 'Idea Map' and I always find these things fun :P It has a couple of questions about what she normally wears and a couple about what activities she likes to do. The best part is that you don't have to select just one answer, useful when the person falls into more than one category.

Idea Map

Ask Her Friends finds presents fitting your answers from loads of different retailers, so there's a great variety. Here are the top four picks for my Mums present, and apart from the first dress I think my mum would really like them, so I was quite impressed :) Luckily there's a handy little 'She won't like this' button under each item, so it can switch with another.

Top four present choices

 Next you can create an 'Advice List' of the top three picks and if you need to there is an option to email these choices to the persons friends to ask if they think they'd like it (very useful for the slightly clueless males using this :P).

The website also acts as a normal shopping website if you want to, so you can just browse what's on there. Once you click on something to buy you're redirected to the original website for the item and buy it through them.

Overall I'm really liking this website, it's fun to use and I can imagine boyfriends, husbands and brothers finding it especially useful when they want to buy something nice, but don't know what! I'll be recommending this to all my male relatives (and probably some female ones as well :P).

The only downsides I can see are the fact that you have to know the person relatively well (but if you didn't you probably wouldn't be buying a present for them anyway) and that if you have lots of people you're buying pressies for the whole question part could get a bit time consuming.

Sunny xxxxx

Gifts From South Africa

Hello ^ - ^ My dad got back from his holiday in South Africa this morning, I was woken up rather early by Tolly barking very enthusiastically at the door - _ - As I'd been awake until 4am watching the meteor showers (it was quite cloudy but I saw a few) I was not a happy bunny.  However once my dad had sat down and had a cup of tea I perked up because he'd bought me presents :D

Ever since I was little and my dad used to go on business trips a lot I'd invented the rule that if he was out of the country he had to get me a souvenir (don't worry I do the same back :P) so I was looking forward to my South Africa goodies :D

My dad's obsessed with penguins so he got me this cute keyring, it's huge so when I attach it to my keys hopefully I won't lose them so easily :P

Then there are the two necklaces, one is made of bone and is supposed to be a seal (I think...). The second is made of beads and paper rolled up, it has newspaper, magazines and even price stickers in it!

Finally I got a 'Great White Sharks No Swimming' magnet and lots and lots of leaflets on different companies which offer White Shark cage diving trips. My dad told me that if I find a good one (i.e. a company focused on education and conservation instead of exploitation and making money) then he'd take me at some point. It's been my dream ever since I was about 8 years old to swim with sharks so maybe a 21st birthday pressie? *fingers crossed* :P

Finally I wanted to say a HUGE thank you to all of my readers and followers. A few days ago I reached 200 followers and over 10'000 page views. Thank you to everyone who reads, follows and comments :) It really means a lot to me <3 Love you all!

Sunny xxxxx