It's pretty well known that I used to work for American Express. I think the phrase used in these situations is "Amex is a good company, with a good product, but I've moved on now. Got good memories though." Party line.

Yeah.

Anyway, Amex does do one good thing which is its annual shop small where, in many small shops and pubs that take Amex, if you spend £10 you get £5 back. Obviously Amex want to prove to merchants the value they bring despite taking a market topping discount rate. Whatever the motive, if you have an Amex card, then these two weeks in early December are a good time to do a pub crawl with Amex coughing up £5 in every £10 (once per location).

So, in a very real way, Amex is sponsoring my Christmas. I have the hangover to prove it.

For my previous thoughts on Xmas click here.

Enjoy the video and let's push it to 50 views.

Cheers

Tim