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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Helen Coffey

I don’t buy people wedding gifts – am I a total monster?

Your presence is present enough” – it may be a somewhat cheesy and clichéd line, but it’s one I very much take literally. Especially when it comes to weddings.

It was never my intention to be the kind of person who doesn’t buy wedding gifts. That person, if not quite a full-blown monster, was surely deserving of a few other choice descriptors – mainly ones beginning with “s”: stingy; skinflint; Scrooge. (Or “p”, for that matter: parsimonious; penny-pinching; penurious. You get the picture.)

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