Killer Tinsel

What are your top tips for alleviating post Christmas blues? Post festivities I usually spend the end of the holidays trawling charity shops and freecycle in the hope of cadging an unwanted Christmas gift. In the past I've picked up snug novelty slipper socks, aftershave sets and an assortment of kitchen implements and glass paperweights. Some I've used myself and others I've put aside for forthcoming birthdays. This year I'm stuck in work with no hope off tripping off round the charity shops. To make matters worse I was very nearly throttled by a folorn looking Christmas decoration clinging to the wall by it's last bit of Blu Tack gumption. In a rush to fix a photocopier jam I failed to notice the half strung decorations finding myself caught up in a web of red and silver bunting. So I pulled the whole lot down, tore the tinsel from the tree, ate the smashed chocolate baubles from the floor and bagged the fairy lights up until next year. Someone told me its bad luck but it made me feel a whole lot better!