I consumatori spenderanno in media il 14% in più questo Natale

As I’ve gotten older, the yearly purchasing of many gifts ,usually plastic and often discarded not long after December, started to take away from Christmas for me.

I try to gift an experience or something that’ll last, but it’s not always possible.

The pressure on parents with young kids is tremendous this time of year.

We’re doing kris kindle apart from the nieces and nephew. Made it so much easier this year. So much more relaxing and tbf anything i need i just buy now like everyone else

In and of itself that statement is kind of meaningless.

The real-world rate of inflation for the type of things people would buy specifically for Christmas has increased past 9% so of course people will be spending more this year whilst getting less then they got last year.

Then there is the increase in all the things some people would do to go shopping, like getting a taxi into town to get gifts. That has shot up massively in price, average gifts and groceries are more expensive. My favourite is the inflation that isn’t obvious in price like shrinkflation with boxes of chocolates where the price stays the same but the product is itself smaller than previously was.

Just the last day I was in town and I popped coffee shop, I was at the counter and ordered a latte and a sausage roll, and I went to the till to pay a cost 9.50 lol.

and it wasn’t even that nice!

It is what it is but it’s sickening to see off officials taking some kind of credit for it.