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  Christmas is a time for stress - and here's what causes it over the festive
                                     season

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   'Tis the season to be stressed out of your eyeballs. There's just days
   to go until Christmas Day and many of us are collapsing under the
   weight of everything there is to do at this time of year.

   A new study by Argos has found that the top seasonal stresses are gift
   buying, budgeting and trying not to put on weight while being tempted
   to feast on festive food and drink at Christmas.

   Some of us see Christmas shopping as so stressful that almost a third
   of us (32%) will take a day off work to get our lists ticked in time.

   Thousands of us are not helping our rocketing stress levels with 12% of
   us leaving gift buying until a last-stop-shop on Christmas Eve.

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   But our concerns don't always focus on what to buy for family and
   friends - one in 10 say their top stress is trying not to put on weight
   when tempted to feast on delicious food and drink at Christmas, and men
   worry almost as much as women about weight gain over the festive
   season.

   Budgeting is the top stress as 9% of people revealed they spend over
   €1,000 on Christmas presents.

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   right up until Santa’s busiest night of the year.”

  Our top seasonal stresses

   1. Budgeting 35%
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     * Christmas
     * Christmas Presents
     * Stress
     * Christmas shopping

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   Chloe Boyle was diagnosed with bone cancer in 2012
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   DublinVideo of son acting the pup on Christmas Day to stress out Dublin
   mammy is gas
   This was surely happening all over the country on Christmas morning