WEBSITES are urging us to buy more Christmas presents online to avoid ‘sweaty, impatient crowds and overflowing car parks’.

But surely one of the pleasures of Christmas is visiting shops to look for gifts and relish the festive atmosphere?

One website goes totally over the score, describing how shopping centres ‘turn the merry Christmas season into hell on earth’, and adding: “No-one really likes enduring this painful annual ritual.”

Another suggested that I, and every other man on the planet, would be delighted to receive a ‘luxury cotton waffle spa gown’.

It gushed that, unless we acquire this item, we ‘can’t look like David Gandy when we wake up’.

Who the devil is David Gandy, I wondered, and then found online he is a fashion model.

Well, good luck to him, but he can keep his fancy gown.

Also recommended was whisky for ‘refined palates’, said to be ‘honeyed with refreshing citrus notes’. No offence, but it sounds absolutely revolting.

As usual at this time of year, you can’t turn on the TV without being bombarded with ads for everything under the sun that could make a possible present.

And now a manufacturer is encouraging people to be even more obsessed with their mobile phones, if that’s possible.

Just in time for Christmas, we can buy special ‘eTip’ gloves to allow users to touch devices without having to uncover their paws.

Whatever you give or get on Sunday, have a very Merry Christmas!