Cheap for advice If you don't fancy picking funds yourself, there are online services that do it for you.
Did you miss out on tickets for Take That's forthcoming tour and fancy picking some up?
Until 9 December, www.cape farewell.com/anthem Adam Jacques Art Do you fancy picking up an original work of art from Anish Kapoor, Gerhard Richter or Yoko Ono for £40 a pop?
If you're a Rhône fan, you might also fancy picking up a couple of bottles of the rich, spicy Perrin Reserve Vinsobres 2014 (13.5% abv), from one of the area's top crus.
To that end, like a grasping relative rummaging through the cupboard of a dying family member who lies helpless on the bed, Osborne set about stealing any item of Labour clothing that took his fancy – picking out all those with mainstream appeal.
My sister suggested that instead of a rib roast or a bird, or the usual overflow of Korean food, we make all sorts of finger dishes that our mother might fancy and pick at.
This (at £49) contains generous sample pots of bold, interesting nail colour (frankly, they're sufficiently big and fancy to pick three you don't like and can pass on as a Christmas present), treatment products, a good crystal nail file, some lovely nail art and a full-size bottle of festive, glittery red polish not available elsewhere.
The stories he tells are Dickens's fancy goods, picked up while he tramped the streets.
"His runs, scored at the pace they came, put Notts very much in the driving seat and they must now be fancied to pick up the first win of the season".
And — with a payments platform that tapped specifically into the rising number of marketplace startups that connected buyers with a number of sellers of goods and services — it got off to a running start, with companies like CrowdTilt (now called Tilt), Zaarly and The Fancy all picking up its services.
