Our most chaotic festive buying habits revealed

TESCO has announced the nation's quirkiest Christmas shopping habits - and it turns out Irish customers are creatures of festive chaos, last-minute rituals and some surprisingly loyal traditions.

- BY CATHAL RYAN

Based on research carried out with Bounce Insights, when it comes to remembering gifts, teachers are one of the recipients we are least likely to forget, with just 9% admitting to leaving them off the list - second only to our other halves at 7%.

Meanwhile, siblings, in-laws, colleagues and neighbours are not quite as lucky. Neighbours are the most forgotten (27%) for a gift at Christmas time, proving that proximity does not guarantee presents.

And if someone unexpected knocks on the door with a gift? A whopping 66% of us will give wine, chocolates or biscuits as a gift.

When it comes to stocking up, the same items catch us out year after year.

Batteries (36%), a spare gift (32%), tin foil (22%), Christmas crackers (21%) and sellotape (19%) top the list of items most commonly forgotten in the week leading up to Christmas.