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How are people still surprised / outraged by this? Happens every year.


The logic is pretty simple.


Some people like to budget and so, to spread the cost of Christmas, start stocking up week by week once autumn hits, taking advantage of any special offers as they go.


Supermarkets respond to this with an array of special offers, particularly on stuff like tins of chocolates, in the hope that whoever bought them in October will have eaten them by the time Christmas comes round, and they'll have to buy a second tin.


I'm going to the Liberty Christmas shop today.


Rosie, getting all the best baubles since 1995

El pibe, I often end up doing that, ironically with more close relatives and friends ie those for whom I spend ages looking and rejecting lots of things till after the event on the grounds that the present isnt nice enough. They end up with something ok but two years late!

maxxi Wrote:

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> KalamityKel Wrote:

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> -----

> > I still have undelivered xmas pressies from

> last

> > year... you have been warned ;-)

>

>

> So YOU'RE the Lordhip Lane postman...



maybe... maybe not ;-)


*sneaks off whistling to self*

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