The Hidden Costs of the Holidays

Every January, it happens to many shoppers: You look at your bank or credit card statement and feel as if you've awakened to a financial hangover. You figure you must have blanked out for most of December, because there's no way you would have spent so much if you had been thinking clearly. In fact, you are pretty sure you set aside a certain amount of money for gifts. So what happened?

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