Caitríona Redmond: Unwanted Christmas gift? Here are your options

If you do get any unwanted Christmas presents, you may not be able to take them all back, writes Caitríona Redmond

To exchange an unwanted gift, the item should be in the original wrapper, with labels attached. This is particularly important when it comes to clothing items. You'll also need a receipt and you'll have to check the shop's returns or gift policy

Now that Christmas is gone and the new year is only a little bit of time away, you may be looking over your Christmas gifts and thinking some of them are not quite your thing. Whether you can return them back to the original retailer though depends on whether or not you have a receipt.

If you take anything from my column this week, it’s to make sure you hold on to your receipts when you’re buying or receiving gifts in future. Just because you’ve received an unwanted gift does not automatically entitle you to return it or reselect another item from the same retailer.