Christmas is a happy time of year. The world is full of peace, goodwill and joy, and we wander around with big smiles on our faces as we exchange gifts and tuck into our festive feasts.

Christmas is also a very expensive time of year, and if you're experiencing money worries - or even just tightening your belt a little - those smiles can disappear as quickly as they appeared.

Christmas money worries affect businesses, too. The run-up to Christmas is a time when many businesses need to increase their marketing activities and advertising, but when the economy is slow and there's not a lot left in the advertising budget, things can start to get tough.

As a marketing services provider, we've seen both sides of this story recently. Clients want to spend less on advertising while achieving better results, and friends and relatives are spending less on Christmas because they're being more careful than ever with their hard-earned cash.

Stories like these are what inspired debbidoo to create Keep Christmas Cheap.

Keep Christmas Cheap aims to help consumers save money at Christmas by becoming part of our community, discovering and sharing tips, recipes and craft ideas to help each other have a cheaper Christmas. We also display products from third-party stockists which may help visitors have a cheaper Christmas, including inexpensive gift ideas, stocking fillers, food and drink, party costumes and games, decorations, cards, wrap and more.

We're also doing as much as we can to help businesses reach a targeted audience of Christmas shoppers looking for a bargain, without spending a fortune on advertising fees. That's why we offer ridiculously cheap advertising, which costs just a one-off fee of £10 per page. UK registered charities advertise for free.

Whether you're a business owner, a marketing employee or a consumer with a smaller than usual Christmas budget, we want to help you Keep Christmas Cheap - because we believe that money worries shouldn't be allowed to spoil what is, for so many of us, the most magical time of year.

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