UP TO £2million worth of unwanted presents are given and received every Christmas. Don't I know it.

I've a cupboard full of unopened face and anti-wrinkle creams that I never use. I think friends must be trying to tell me something.

The amount of money that is wasted is ridiculous. It would be better if we all just swapped tenners. Still I suppose that would take away the surprise of opening another bit of something totally unwanted and unneeded.

Sound ungrateful don't I? However, I remember the old adage it's not the receiving it's the giving that counts.

And I wonder how many hands a gift is recirculated through before it becomes wanted!