Wrapped up: A present-buying contract is a wise way to forestall Yuletide grief
(Picture: Alamy Stock Photo)Martin Lewis, our very own archangel Gabriel, is right: we need to rethink how we do Christmas. The money expert has implored people to stop buying presents for an “ever-growing list of teachers, friends and extended family,” and to “sign-up to a ‘pre-nup’ which is a pre-Christmas, no unnecessary presents pact.”
The cost-of-living crisis may be a good excuse to reassess our festive habits. Not people in poverty, who may struggle to make it through the winter having been trapped inside the fantastical budgetary tales of Sunak and Hunt, the Brothers Grimm. I’m talking about those of us who usually treat Christmas as a blowout, an orgy of gifts, booze and food to relieve silently raging middle-class malaise.
