'i Worry About What Message Is Sent. Is Buying Soap Another Way Of Saying "you Smell"?'

WHATEVER happened to the global financial crisis? The shops are full of crazed people with a desperate look in their eyes, buying whole trailer-loads of useless stuff. Christmas stuff. Stuff like a cat calendar, purchased because Aunty Patricia has a cat; a golf ashtray, purchased because Uncle Terry plays golf; and a pair of socks, purchased because husband Tim has feet.