If nothing else you can always rely on people’s stupidity to lighten the day.

Within the next week I am pretty certain I am going to rush to the supermarket and buy things I do not need.

I find it strange that many of us always end up buying pointless stuff to fill the fridge with.

There seems to be this feeling that everything is going to shut down and we need to stock up in case a war breaks out over Christmas.

The new craze is (well, I’m not sure how new it is) is to text your friends to tell them there is an offer on at a supermarket.

I hate these texts but somehow one of my friends has put me on his ‘exclusive list’.

I have to say in the beginning it was quite useful. I felt as if I knew something that other people didn’t.

But now it has to be most annoying thing ever.

In fact I have tried to get myself taken off the list but to no avail. Apparently once you are on it – to be taken off requires UN intervention.

Every time there is an offer anywhere he starts texting away telling those on the list there is an amazing offer on somewhere.

It makes him feel special.

Unfortunately he has put some real bargain hunters on the list. Mostly women, who make their husbands drive from one supermarket to the next.

By the time you get there these experts have cleaned the place out by inviting their families to the party.

And these ladies are not about to take no for an answer.

I heard of one woman buying six items (the maximum allowed) and then going back in a disguise to buy another six items.

Genius, one has to say. But it is really necessary? What about everyone else?

Has the bargain become the most important thing ever?

I have thus decided that I will no longer be taken in by any offers whatsoever. I don’t need the stuff so why buy four tins of Pringles when it takes me a month to eat just one?

Happy Christmas shopping.