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Around half of all UK adults receive gifts for Christmas that do not really want. Gifting an experience to your loved ones could help to reduce the amount of ‘stuff’ filling our homes and can help people spend quality time together. There are lots of options for different budgets: you could buy tickets to an event, cinema vouchers or offer your time to babysit or some other act of support, or to plan to visit somewhere together of mutual interest. Anyone for a scenic winter walk, followed by coffee and cake?

If you think about your greatest gifts in life (and thank God for them) how many were bought in a shop, compared to the gifts such as people, music, laughter and fun. Is it time to reconsider our attitude towards gifts?