On Fri, 29 Nov 2019 08:46:42 -0800 (PST),
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On Friday, 29 November 2019 11:48:34 UTC, T i m wrote:
So we go from buying each other gifts that neither wants, to getting
the gift ourselves to some agreed value to giving each other the money
to get their own gift to agreeing how much we should spend on
ourselves in some sort of mutual agreement?


I've outdone last year's four-for-a-pound christmas presents from the charity shop.

Go on ...

This year there are 10-for-a-pound DVDs,

That's good. They were 4(5?) for a pound the last time I looked?

and a free calendar from the Open University,

Oooh, I wonder if daughter will get one of those?

getting packaged up.

Newspaper I hope. ;-)

Secret Santa for a fiver; I'm not chuffing spending that much!

They would walk up to me with their collection box and luck dip names,
pause and then 'jog on'. ;-)

And I found it funny when the thickos / gullible / brainwashed called
me a 'spoilsport' (I didn't know Xmas was 'a sport') or that I was
'miserable' when I was probably one of the happiest people there. At
least I wasn't moaning and groaning about how I still had to get
presents for x, y and z (and didn't know what to get of have the spare
cash to get it) and hadn't got the food in or decorations up! ;-)

Cheers, T i m