'Keep your festivities. They're just too much hard work for me'

Bah humbug, I say! Who needs Christmas? It's just too much hard work.

First comes the scramble for gifts and the struggle to think of something else to buy over-indulged family and friends.

Then there is actually buying the gifts, rubbish like "special edition" CDs and DVDs, soap hampers and endless tins of shortbread. Not forgetting the annual Christmas Eve pit stop at the gas station to buy whatever they have on offer for that person you forgot to buy for.