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The Retirement Newsletter: Merry Christmas!
Welcome and Merry Christmas
Welcome to issue -109.
This week is the last newsletter before Christmas. So it is back to planning for the Christmas break and thinking about the next newsletter due out on Boxing Day. (And if you don’t know what Boxing Day is, I will explain next week on Boxing Day).
Again this week, I would like to welcome some new subscribers. Plus, I would like to thank the kind readers who bought me a coffee. Thank you!
Planning
My planning for the festive period is going OK.
- Christmas cards posted — check
- Local Christmas cards delivered by hand — no
- Christmas presents posted — check
And now I am going to have a little moan.
Before the UK voted to leave the European Union (aka Brexit), sending cards and gifts to my friends in Europe was relatively cheap and easy. Thanks to Brexit, it now costs the same to send a Christmas card to Europe as it does to Australia. And gifts to friends in Germany and France need a customs declaration form. Madness.
