23% of Britons looked at their computer history to try to see what they had been bought for Christmas

"Almost one in four people will look at the internet history of their partner, to see what Christmas present they might have been bought.
A study of 1,000 Brits found 23 percent would sneak-a-peak at their Christmas gifts online, rather than hunting the house and squeezing wrapped presents.
Nowadays they just load up the internet browser and look in the history folder to see what sites and products have been viewed or purchased.
A further 15 percent of people said they'd accidentally stumbled on what they had been bought by visiting a shopping website on a shared computer and seeing a message like "you recently bought…""
Source: Research commissioned by Webtrends, reported by News Lite, 21st December 2009