I WENT into town to get some wrapping paper a few days after Christmas for an upcoming birthday.

Should be an easy task I hear you say?

Well not so, because every shop was crammed with people trying to buy discount wrapping paper and cards for Christmas 2015.

How sad that you can’t even finish celebrating the current festive period without worrying about the next one.

Not only that, but I don’t think I would even remember where I had put the paper I bought and just end up buying twice anyway.

Celebrate Christmas before Christmas, not after.

Leave the sales shopping for something a little more interesting I say.

LINDA HAMPSON Stockton Heath