In this picture taken at Makola, a very busy district in Accra, some head porters are carrying off sizeable hampers of their clients.

Typically among the middle-class, Christmas without a hamper is like soup with insufficient salt. Something is just not complete about it.

And if your only source of a hamper is from government, your chances, am sorry to say - is bleak. Well,that is in theory.

The President says no hamper for you. Maybe next year.

So on a merry making period like this, myjoyonline.com is asking - did you get a hamper?