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How to spend cash this Christmas without shadow of January blues

It is that festive season once again when you are allowed to bare the social animal in you to celebrate Christmas and New Year holidays. It is a season where proper celebrations for the privileged are audited on grounds of mountains of junk food cleared, volumes of alcohol taken, cash spent on travelling, buying of new clothes and ‘murdering’ hens, goats and cows.

Even those who are confirmed to the legions of the majority poor will be in the league of carefree spenders, only to eventually end up cutting the image of sick cows in January, descending so low as to sell off their smartphones at throw-away prices just to raise fare to get back to their workstations, or to get their way around recouping their economic selves. It is one of the rare moments when every other person is in need of no prompting to burn some cash.

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