Here are some startling and crazy Christmas statistics about the festive period in the UK.

1.  We cook over 10 million turkeys worth an estimated £400 million
2.  The average turkey weighs 12lbs and costs around £60
3.  It is estimated we eat 25 million Christmas puddings
4.  We drink around 250 million pints of beer and 35 million bottles of wine
5.  The average family spends £170 on their Christmas dinner
6.  The average Christmas lunch costs £14 per head
7.  We spend an eye watering £50.6 million on 370 million mince pies and eat on average 27 mince pies each
8.  Over 7 million children leave mince pies and a drink for Santa on Christmas Eve
9.  Almost 40% of Christmas dinners are apparently be cooked by men
10. We put up 7.5 million Christmas trees worth an estimated £245 million
11. We write 1.7 billion Christmas cards
12. We buy about 25 million crackers
13. Christmas wrapping paper sold in the UK equates to 83 sq km, which is enough to cover 33 Hyde Parks
14. People start thinking about gift ideas on average 11 weeks before Christmas
15. The average shopper spends £384 on presents
16. Christmas costs the average household £975 for the day
17. Alcohol consumption in Britain increases by 40% in December, more than any other country in the world
18. Over 40 per cent of toys and presents given to children at Christmas are broken by March
19. The Christmas period accounted for approximately 29% of total retail sales in 2009
20. The UK spends around £20bn on Christmas with about £1.6bn going on food and drink