One in two Italians ready to re-gift Xmas presents

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 27 - One in two Italians is ready to re-gift Christmas presents, according to a survey by Confcooperative.
    Italians are increasingly "serial recyclers" of gifts, the survey by the Confcooperative Study Center said.
    It said that that one in two people, around 28 million people, recycle gifts received and perhaps not appreciated at Christmas.
    There are those who even resell them online, the survey said.
    The overall savings reach 3.5 billion euros, 100 million more than last year and 200 more than the pre-pandemic Christmas.
    "It is an old habit - it is explained - that has turned into a trend that is becoming more and more consolidated in recent years.
    "Despite the increase in the thirteenth salary which has been constant: 45.7 billion in 2022, 49 billion in 2024 and 51.3 this year".
    For Confcooperative, gift recycling thus becomes "an almost compulsive tendency where people are increasingly drawn to spending on themselves rather than on others".
    Sometimes it is out of selfishness, other times out of necessity, in an Italy where the middle class is weakening and Italians in poverty are around 10 million. (ANSA).