It is estimated that as many as one in three shoppers send back their Black Friday or Cyber Monday purchases. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA Wire
Usually by now, I’d have bought some half-price tins of biscuits and boxes of chocolate from the carefully positioned displays that have been in supermarkets since early October. And I’d have been at least once to TK Maxx to buy stocking fillers before the best-value items were sold out.
Viewing myself as a careful Christmas shopper, I also have a stash of unwanted gifts squirrelled away for spontaneous last-minute present-giving should any family member be caught wanting.
But now that my Santa days are over, I buy books and vouchers for restaurants, massage treatments and concert tickets as gifts.
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