Picking the best of January's furniture sales

Carol O’Callaghan gets inside the January furniture shopping spree. 

With the new year sales in full swing some of us are experiencing a relapse of the pre-Christmas shopping bug — urging us out into the storms to pick up a few bargains.

But let’s try to retain that lovely chilled out feeling we developed over the Christmas holiday and try to make our excursion as efficient and stress-free as possible — so we don’t carry home a cold with our shopping trip.