Penny pinching and careful spending can go out the window when Christmas comes to town with most of us spending plenty of money and time making the holiday perfect. For one mum, the festive season is the time to go all out - as she has spent £40,000 on decorations in the last six years.
Joanne Buckley-Smith turns her house into a winter wonderland with a different theme every year and starts shopping as early as January to make sure everything is prepared.
Sparing no expense, the 41-year-old has bought a Santa lamp for £700, two MacKenzie-Childs stags for £1,700 each, a £600 MacKenzie-Childs snowman and a $500 dancing Grinch from the US, for her home this year.
