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UK 'settling for a tighter Christmas'
Burton Mail
|December 13, 2025
THE proportion of people planning to splash out this Christmas has shrunk sharply compared with last year, research suggests.
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On average, households expect to spend £596, down from £774 last year, Yorkshire Building Society found.
The proportion planning to spend more than £1,000 has plummeted to 15%, down from just over half (51%) last year.
More than half (55%) of people in the latest survey said they felt stressed about their finances and nearly a quarter (24%) plan to use a credit card to cover the cost.
Among those borrowing, expectations around when they will clear their debt vary widely.
This story is from the December 13, 2025 edition of Burton Mail.
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