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Brits hoard around £900 million worth of unwanted Christmas gifts

Study shows that UK consumers keep enough discarded presents to fill Wembley Stadium 11 times over

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14 January 2012

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Britons hoard around £900 million worth of unwanted Christmas gifts, according to new research.

Online auction site lovelyjubbly has published the results of a survey which shows that UK consumers keep enough discarded presents to fill Wembley Stadium 11 times over.

Overall, one in three UK consumers received unwanted gifts last year, with seven million given duplicate presents. Over three quarters of Britons are too polite to express their feelings when they do not like a gift.

Gareth Whipps, commissioner of the survey and auction expert, revealed that Brits spent a total of £124 billion on gifts last Christmas.

He said: "A lot of us have received gifts that we don't particularly want or particularly desire and that means one in three of us have got Christmas gifts we don't want."

The extended family were the main culprits for giving unwanted presents, with partners making the best gift choices.

Posted by Jack Ramsey

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