This will be the third year I've bought my darling husband and my dearest children absolutely nothing for Christmas. Christmas 2023 was therefore very different – in a good way. The numbers are wild: according to the website Finder, the average British adult plans to spend £514 on Christmas presents in 2025. But the multi-million-dollar question is surely how the girls, that bit bigger now, are reacting to their atypical Christmas. Pictures of a big landfill site and those huge slicks of ocean plastic persuaded her that plastic toys all have the same fate.

Source: Daily Mail December 22, 2025 05:15 UTC