A WOMAN is in a desperate race against time to think of a big-ticket item her husband can buy her for Christmas before he goes rogue.

Carolyn Ryan, aged 42, was told yesterday ‘if there’s anything you want for Christmas I need to know this week, otherwise I’ll get you whatever’ and is frantically searching for the right item to stem a tide of crap.

She said: “It’s not that the gifts he gets me are entirely bad. It’s just they’re very ‘generic woman’.

“‘Here’s a scented candle, here’s some chocolates, here’s a bottle of artisanal gin. Does that take me up to the spending cap yet? Alright here’s a scarf.’ I’ve got five days or less to find something before he buys Expensive Secret Santa.

“It’s f**king stressful. I feel like I come across stuff I’d like which costs £200 every day, but put

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