DiscountVouchers.co.uk Survey Shines Light on UK Attitudes to Love and Money

Voucher codes specialist polls Brits and finds many still consider no such thing as 'price on love'.

2011-09-02

SURREY, ENGLAND, September 02, 2011 (Press-News.org) Internet-based retail deals specialist DiscountVouchers.co.uk, the website that gets consumer money off at hundreds of top stores, this week publishes the results of a new poll surveying attitudes on money and relationships. The offers website questioned site visitors and discovered that 40% think that there is "no price on love" when it comes to saving up and spending money on an engagement ring.

The poll results also showed that 11% believe in the old adage of an engagement ring costing at least double what the man buying it earns in a month, while 30% confessed that they would pay up to GBP500 when purchasing an engagement ring.

The voucher code site also questioned people on restaurant behaviour in new relationships, with 65% admitting to the time-honoured habit of going 'Dutch' on a restaurant bill. 75% admitted that they regularly buy a new outfit ahead of a first date and 67% will never order the most expensive dish in a restaurant - even if it should turn out to be their favourite food!

Early stages of new relationships threw up some interesting answers too with 57% saying that they eat out regularly with new partners while 46% said that they receive flowers.

New partners often means new presents too, and the poll showed that 25% of people receive gifts of jewellery from new other halves, and 20% admitted being treated to romantic weekends away. On the other hand, just 5% commented that their new partner gives them the gift of new underwear.

The poll also took in views on parsimony when getting a relationship off the ground. 25% of respondents said that should a new partner appear to be stingy they would be happy to dump them, while 37% said stinginess is not really a factor in their view of a new partner.

42% of respondents admitted to being prepared to take an overdraft on to spoil a new loved one, while 94% said that the traditional way of a lady's father and family funding a wedding celebration was not in their plans.

Doug Scott, managing director of DiscountVouchers.co.uk, comments: "Our latest poll really does seem to show that UK consumers still believe in romance! We know that relationships require time, effort and money, but discount codes like ours are a good way to make the most of a budget."

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