The 2 Week Countdown

With 14 shopping days left till Christmas the hunt to find a good Christmas present is running out, or should we say just the hunt to find something is running out.

It happens to the best of us, at sometime in our lives we receive an awful present and what do we do, smile. I think I’m rather fortunate, as I never have had a really memorably bad present.

Since moving into my flat in September with a six strangers, after four months we are starting to get along and as Christmas approached so did the idea of a secret Santa. So in go the strips of paper with our names and who did I pull out, the person I know the least, obviously. Don’t get me wrong, I love the secret Santa idea, only having to buy one present rather than six will always be a good thing. But what should you buy? I think the best thing to buy is a general gift. You know something all students will love, for example food or booze. Its true you can never go wrong with chocolates.

So what do you do if you get a bad present? Well you could save it and give it to your uncle for his birthday but do you really want him to think that you would have brought such a bad gift. My answer is eBay. People will buy anything; I mean anything on there. When researching I found somebody had bid on a ghost in a jar. So why not make yourself a bit of extra cash in the New Year and my advice to you is sell your crap presents on.