You realize that you may, just potentially, have signed up for one too many store's email list when...a couple of days before Christmas...your mailbox is deluged with "hey you lazy bum, this is your last chance to buy something and have it actually arrive in time for Christmas" emails. Or maybe I find it irritating because, this year, my Christmas shopping is actually done...

Of course, even more galling...if you handed over the necessary spondooliks for a "must have" aviator jacket a mere couple of months ago...is The Telegraph's "Christmas sale guide: what to avoid". For aviator's will be...per The T...the "ultimate no-no" come next Spring/Summer. Of course, whether that is due to the whims and caprices of Fashion (capital F)...or the difficulty of maneuvering through the summer streets swaddled in the better part of a herd of sheep...is up for debate...