I don’t know if it’s just me, but the recession of the last year does seem to have had one (slightly) positive effect this weekend – the number of TV adverts for “Bank Holiday Weekend Sales” appear to have dropped through the floor.

After all, there’s now no :

• MFI
• Sofa Warehouse
• Allied Carpets
• [several others I can't currently recall]

who always used to do that kind of sale.

Of course, there’s still bloody DFS, (Although they just seem to have one big year-long sale) and B&Q and Homebase are both doing “15% off everything” weekends, but still it seems like there’s nowhere near as many Bank Holiday Sales this year.

Mind you, it could also be because I’ve hardly seen any TV over the last week or so…