Christmas has come early for me as The Mirror's Consumer Editor... over the past few weeks, I have sat in cinemas and the back offices of advertising agencies, watching sneak previews of all the major retailers' festive adverts. I've shed a couple of tears at Tesco's tearjerker about a bereaved man who carries on the family tradition of building a gingerbread house and laughed at Asda's cheeky garden gnomes and Aldi's Kevin the Carrot spy film spoof . This year, firms have spent more money than

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