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The Company That Cancelled Christmas
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
I Still Buy Christmas Presents
Stanford Harvard study found that some people lose £2,000 a year. We can all play our own little role in shaping the Christmas culture. In Harriet Beecher Stowe's story The Good Fairy, her characters decide to stop giving Christmas presents altogether and make charitable donations instead. But if you go back and re-read A Christmas Carol, you'll see that Scrooge didn't waste his money on extravagant and showy gifts for people who didn't need them. And he gave Bob Cratchit the greatest Christmas gift of all. That's the Christmas spirit. God bless us, everyone.
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