Are people in Birmingham cutting back on Christmas this year?

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With average Christmas spending expected to pass one thousand six hundred pounds, we asked people in Birmingham whether they’ll be spending that much or tightening their budgets. Are rising prices forcing people to scale back on food, gifts and festivities this Christmas?

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00:00I'm trying to cut back.

00:01Yeah, trying to cut back, but it's hard to because obviously at the same time you want

00:06to buy for the people that you love and stuff, so yeah.

00:09I'm hoping it won't be a grand, but yeah.

00:12I did treat myself today, which I probably shouldn't have done either.

00:16But yeah, things are definitely getting more expensive, but like you said, you want to

00:20give back to the people that have helped you through the year, because things are really

00:23hard and I know I've needed a lot of help this year, so I can't not help and give my

00:28friends and family stuff back, so.

00:31I won't be spending that much at all, sorry.

00:33It's expensive to do Christmas, very, very expensive nowadays.

00:38The price has gone off on everything.

00:39You go to the corner shop, you buy a bottle of water, it's £1.50, it used to be like less

00:44than a pound for a bottle of water.

00:46You buy a packet of crisp, they're now £1.35, they used to be 99p.

00:51This year it's about living, I had a bit of a scare last year, so I'm going to enjoy it

00:55this year, so I will be spending as much as I can.

00:59Yeah.

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