Oh, you shouldn’t have. No really, you shouldn’t have…’ Finding out what presents your family and friends received is part of the fun of Christmas; the perfect, the dull and, best of all, the dismal fail. My ‘add-on’ gifts of food bag sealing clips, allegedly for the third year running, made me the butt of many jokes. An error I rode out by saying, ‘Yeah but you can never have too many Clip-its!’.
A common cause of ‘wrong gifts’ can result from wish fulfilment, as happened when my siblings and I bought our mother a portable picnic table. When I saw the look of bewilderment on her face I realised
