Santa’s ‘sleigh delay’ could save you hundreds, says TalkTalk

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If you’ve ever felt remotely subversive by watching the Alternative Christmas Speech then you might well choke on your turkey to learn that millions of Britons are considering holding an entire Alternative Christmas Day to save money.

Indeed new research from the UK home phone and broadband company TalkTalk (www.talktalk.co.uk) finds that – with 44% of people spending to a strict budget – almost 12 million Brits would happily buy all their presents, decorations and food at rock-bottom prices in the Boxing Day sales, and delay their entire family Christmas celebrations until the 27th December.  Four million people said they would consider such drastic action if it saved their family as little as £100.

While not everyone is considering going the whole hog with a Christmas Day Delay, 15 million (or nearly one in three) of us are already set on waiting until the post-Christmas sales to buy our loved ones a present. In fact a whopping £1.56 billion will be spent on pressies after Christmas.

If you delay your entire Christmas Day, TalkTalk has worked out that the average family could in fact save an estimated £208 each. What's more, if every family in the country were to follow suit we'd save a colossal £5.6 billion – enough to buy every household in Britain a Nintendo Wii console Christmas.

Mark Schmid at TalkTalk says: "Britons are made to pay hugely inflated prices around Christmas, but this year it seems that millions of us are prepared to buck the trend by buying presents in the sales after Christmas. Delaying the entire Christmas celebration until December 27th might seem extreme, but in these tough times it's a great way of saving money if you're prepared to hang on an extra few days!”