A light-hearted travesty on the mania for Christmas presents. Mrs. Budlong has a counterpart in every community. She is the woman who returns calls too promptly, has a frenzy for giving dinners, who makes the telephone an instrument of torture. Mid who always bursts out with special eclat at Giristmas time. This is the story of how she harrowed and harried a small town to distraction, but finally met an overwhelming retribution and was buried under an avalanche of her own origin.