‘My mum declared war on Christmas gift giving’ | Eleanor Margolis

Eleanor Margolis‘s house has never been one for Christmas sentimentality – in some families, she says, it’s simply better to accept that gift-giving is futile, and only causes untidynessIt started with the decorations. Christmas was once a supermarket plastic bag bristling with sweet, tacky, red and green tinsel that smelled like 20 years of pine, a string of mini pretend presents that, in spite of their very obvious hollowness, begged to be opened, and – most important &