The pressure of Christmas gifting has fuelled a multi-billion-dollar cycle of gift waste. Cherie Tseng, chief operations officer at a local fintech company, weighs in.New: You can now listen to articles.game. Faking enthusiasm becomes an art, and the dread of finding space on the kitchen table for yet another quirky mug is a universal holiday struggle.
It is such a stressful time of the year that medical professionals have weighed in on ways to “survive the wrapping paper mayhem of gift giving and receiving and dig deep for some cheer and spirit” in an article on How To Shake Holiday Gift Anxiety on health information website WebMD. Adding to this, a 2016 survey by financial services firm ING on The Truth About Unwanted Christmas Gifts suggests that not everyone is always grateful for the presents they receive. In Europe, around one in seven individuals said they were unhappy with the Christmas gift they received the previous year, and 10 per cent could not even recall what they receive