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Survey Shows Australian Consumers are Bound to Spend Less for This Year’s Christmas

Christmas 2009 may not just be the happiest Christmas for Australian retailers after they learned that Australian consumers will settle for a smaller budget for the holidays. A recent survey conducted by the Melbourne Institute and Westpac Bank showed on Monday that 35% of the respondents are categorized as expected to spend less on Christmas presents this year than the previous year. 50%, on the other hand, are expected to spend just about the same as they spend their Christmas last year, while only over 14% said they plan to spend a little more. Digging into more details in the survey,

Christmas charity starts with the government

Is HM Treasury a charity, you might not think so but The Charities Advisory Trust have a different take on it. The trust has produced its Christmas Good Gifts Catalog, it has the expected trees for British woods and watertanks for African schools, as you would expect from the pioneers of giving a goat for Christmas, but it also has a £20 voucher to "Whittle down the National Debt" "I may be the maddest person in Britain, but I thought it would tickle people's fancy" said Dame Hilary Blume, the director of the charity We are not sure how serious the idea is and Dame Hilary Blume may have

Survey Shows Australian Consumers are Bound to Spend Less for This Year’s Christmas

Christmas 2009 may not be the happiest Christmas for Australian retailers after they learned that Australian consumers will settle for a smaller budget for the holidays. A recent survey conducted by the Melbourne Institute and Westpac Bank showed on Monday that 35% of the respondents are categorized as expected to spend less on Christmas presents this year than the previous year. 50%, on the other hand, are expected to spend just about the same as they spend their Christmas last year, while only over 14% said they plan to spend a little more. Digging into more details in the survey,

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