Last year I was able to report on the first sale of a personalised Christmas decoration through my site as early as Mid May. I'm pleased to be able to say that 2009 has seen an even earlier start to the Chrimbo bauble buying with a sale today - April 25th.

I'm not quite sure what motivates anyone to be thinking of baubles at the moment. Actually one of my neighbours made the horrifying suggestion to me the other day that the 7 or 8 neighbours in our row all go for a Christmas lunch this year so I know some people do start thinking such things way before normal folk.

Anyway, come back next year for the third in my annual series, which I will now call The First Christmas Sale Update.