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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Saskia Kemsley

Best gifts to liven up your Blue Monday

We’re not referring to the iconic hit by 80s rock band New Order, though the repeated question asked by Bernard Sumner in the song – ‘how do I feel?’ – is certainly relevant. The answer of course being: not entirely fabulous.

Blue Monday was first coined by Sky Travel in a press release back in 2005. They named the third Monday in January in this ever so gloomy manner due to the fact that it is, supposedly, the most depressing day of the calendar year.

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