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Talk / Life / Money / UK set for record Xmas spending

By will, Wed 15 Nov 2006 at 9:52am 
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Shoppers are expected to spend a wallet thumping £378 on average, over a fifth more than last Christmas.

What are you going to be buying? By the way, one of our neighbours has put their Christmas lights and tree up already. Beat that!

Read this story

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By Midwich, Thu 16 Nov 2006 at 7:35am 
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£378? Is that on the WHOLE of Christmas, or just presents? Frankly, I'm not surprised, when you consider the cost of technology that will be on some 'Christmas wants lists' (eg, Sat Navs, xbox360s). Even a couple of xbox360 games comes to nearly £100.

So far I've spent just a little over £200 on presents - so that figure looks (sadly) realistic.

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By shutupacut, Thu 16 Nov 2006 at 8:34am 
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This will probably be my cheapest in years, as I now am single!

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By tuff, Thu 16 Nov 2006 at 8:38am 
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I haven't spent anything yet and haven't even thought about it.

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By shutupacut, Thu 16 Nov 2006 at 8:39am 
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I will probably spend about £25 per person, so I can get away with about £150

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By Noffles, Thu 16 Nov 2006 at 8:52am 
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Irish Radio this morning said exactly the same thing, everywhere is going to spend more..

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Re: UK set for record Xmas spending

By ArthurP, Thu 16 Nov 2006 at 9:06am 
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will wrote:

By the way, one of our neighbours has put their Christmas lights and tree up already. Beat that!



actually, I think you should beat them ....

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By ArthurP, Thu 16 Nov 2006 at 9:07am 
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Noffles wrote:

Irish Radio this morning said exactly the same thing,




Bill Murray ? Is that you ?

is it Groundhog Day already ?

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Re: UK set for record Xmas spending

By Noffles, Thu 16 Nov 2006 at 9:19am 
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ArthurP wrote:

Noffles wrote:

Irish Radio this morning said exactly the same thing,




Bill Murray ? Is that you ?

is it Groundhog Day already ?



We'll just have to ask the groundhog....?

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