Special Christmas message from The Economy

from artrepublic

Some links on shopping:
British consumers spent a total of £33 million online during the Monday lunch hour and £1.4 million was spent at 13:43 alone, making it the busiest online shopping minute ever. http://tinyurl.com/yckcbvb

More than two thirds of UK shoppers (70%) plan to spend an average of £220 of their Christmas shopping budget online. http://tinyurl.com/yc7959n

Deloitte estimates that spending on gifts this year in Britain alone will top £16.9 billion ($33 billion), while the average European household will rack up $872 in Christmas-related expenditures. BusinessWeek 2006.

Only buy what you need. Oh, that's just not interesting to anyone, it seems..