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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle

Need a lift? Here’s 53 easy ways to add cheer to your life as winter looms

Trainers with muck on them being held over a sink full of soap suds
Soap and glory: return dirty trainers to boxfresh splendour. Photograph: Ilka & Franz/The Observer

1. Start Christmas early

Do it all now. Put the tree up, snack exclusively on Quality Street and only watch bad films about big city girls who return to the countryside for Christmas and fall in love with a nice local man. Everything is bad, you need this.

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