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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — According to a new Gallup poll, the average person will spend $704 on Christmas presents this year. But others plan to spend much more, 26 percent of those polled say they plan on spending more than $1,000 on presents to go under the tree.

How much do you plan to spend this year? If you don’t know the answer to that question, now is the time to figure it all out.  Here to help put is in check is FOX 4 financial planner, Kathy Stepp.