I too don't like the run up to Xmas. I have six children who are all grown up but I think I set the bar too high when they were little. Oh for the days when you could go into 'Woolies' and stock up on toys, clothes, sweets, CD's and selection boxes/stockings so they all had a big pile of presents to wake up to on Xmas mornings. Now it's presents that look like nothing but cost the earth. They all say they don't expect so much but its not that easy. Old habits die hard
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