‘Spending seems out of place’: how Britons are reining in Christmas gifts

From giving up sending cards to family secret Santas, people are trying a variety of ways to reduce festive excess

Ralph Morris’s Christmas cards will include an addendum for his friends this year: that he’s finished with Christmas cards.

Before he retired from teaching Morris, 71, from Grimsby, used to send about 130 cards a year, which has steadily reduced to “around 80” this year. But no more.