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It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Unless you’ve left your present-buyin until Christmas Eve, and have to contend with the shoppin -centre leftovers before headin back to a home filled with tetchy in-laws and su ar-addled little ones. Then the holiday season can be an unmiti ated ni htmare.

Fear not, because this month’s bumper issue of Stuff is here to see you rei n supreme amon friends and family as the kin of Crimbo. Not yet rifled throu h the 100+ present ideas we’ve crammed into the Gift Guide you ot with this issue? There’s plenty to keep you oin in this main ma .

From a smartphone supertest that sees the iphone X face off a ainst Goo le’s Pixel 2 XL, to our Christmas TV streamin uide, there’s loads to be di in into. Alas, Netflix still hasn’t done the decent thin and commissioned a Stranger Things school panto episode. Eleven as Widow Twankey? No? Just me then.

Whatever sits on top of your wish list, I hope Santa comes ood this year. And if you do end up with enou h novelty pants to sink a battleship, then try to remember it’s the thou ht that counts. My advice? Guarantee yourself a year of ad et joy by subscribin to

Stuff. That way it doesn’t matter what you did last Christmas that caused Auntie Mildred to hold a rud e.