We asked you to tweet us your favourite thing about Christmas. From food and family to baking and, er, balloons, here’s what you love best.

Here’s our guide to avoiding common pitfalls and rescuing your festive dishes when disaster strikes.

On a budget this Christmas? Looking for a great Secret Santa present? Blogger Sarah Wong chooses her favourite gifts for less than £5.

At around this time every year, I browse Rex London for Christmas stocking fillers and Secret Santa presents. I was given a £30 gift voucher and I wanted to make that £30 stretch as far as it could.

You’d rather be given pants than a mobile phone this Christmas, according to nearly 4,000 of you who responded to our Spirit of Christmas Survey.

Our friends give us the worst Christmas presents, according to 4,000 of you who answered our Spirit of Christmas Survey 2015.