Why are 300 cheap Christmas presents worse than one very expensive one?

When richer people take their kids on Christmas ski trips or buy them a new Christmas saddle for the new Christmas pony, there are murmurs only of quiet approval, But because 300 fivers mummy went for quantity over quality, she got an online pasting, writes Suzanne Harrington

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As the environmentalist George Monbiot writes of “hedonic stimulus that lasts no longer than a nicotine hit” and within weeks ends up in landfill — he’s talking about novelty Christmas presents like solar powered plastic dancing nuns — an Isle of Man woman is digitally tarred and feathered for the 300 presents under her tree.