DH has made his annual announcement

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He definitely going to send Christmas cards. Every year the week before Christmas he declares this so I now know we are truly in the Christmas season.
He has never sent cards out in time, most years not at all. He will buy cards though, which I occasionally gather up and give away.
He did once send a bunch of cards in January though!

I have always thought there should be an option to send New Years cards - I am always really busy before Christmas, but have loads of time between Christmas and New Year so thats a good time to write cards. Last year I wrote this years cards in the days after Christmas while I was watching tv and eating Christmas nibbles.

Well, you learn something new every day!
I thought it was just my DH that did this, but obviously not.
I say he is like a politician, promises everything & delivers nothing!

I make my own cards so will continue to send them, as I love doing them for people. I use stuff from kits but have a die cutting machine too. I always write my own verse(s) too 😊

DH is very cross with me today as I took the pile of addressed cards to go in the post, bought stamps and posted them... even the local ones I've said if I've made the fecking effort to write them, they're not sitting in his car for a month before he sneaks them into the recycling....!!

My DH announced he had done an online Christmas Food shop. It arrived today, 8 bottles of wine, stuff to make sausage rolls and nuts. Thankfully my order is coming Wednesday with actual food.

We are taking his family’s presents over Wednesday, it’s Monday night and he has still yet to order or buy his Dad anything 🤦🏻‍♀️ If he announces anything to do with cards - we don’t have any left, I many dig up the patio!

Like so many other PPs, my DH is generally of the hand deliver cards, sort out presents on Xmas Eve persuasion. He will also promise a fancy cooked item for Xmas day or spend forever sorting out a perfect clutch of games to play. He does however turn our house very festive with lots of greenery and bespoke natural decorations.

This year I was amazed to see he has bought and wrapped quite a clutch of presents already. He was really excited that his adult children had agreed to come to us for Xmas and went a bit overboard on the gift front. He’s been utterly crushed when they announced they are only going to be using us for accommodation while they spend Christmas at their mums as she has moved and doesn’t have space for them to stay.

We’re moving from the area next year so they won’t be able to do this to him again - but I wonder if they will ever bother to come and see him once we’re not useful for free accommodation. Since his DCs left home they scattered across the country, so wherever we live we could only ever be near to one of his DC.

Last year I made the announcement that DH should do the thank you cards with the kids. Now they are a lovely thing to send but his family's thing not mine and I had been doing them for the previous 8 years.

Did they get done dear reader? Nope!
Did DH explain to his family or apologize? Nope!

Today he has announced he will do them this year, only time will tell....

The few that dh has to do, will invariably be posted on the 20th or later - and some are for Australia, Canada, etc.
I can never get him to do them any earlier.

I have spent a long time over the last few weeks buying beautiful wrapping paper and coordinating bows. I have a young granddaughter so she has peppa pig wrapping paper. .
I have been out all day and 'helpful' DH has wrapped all the xmas presents. Marvellous. Except they are all in peppa pig paper with not a gift tag between them!

After a lot of huffing and puffing and many questions about the availability of cards, stamps and the final date for posting, DH has gone off to post Christmas cards to two of his friends. I'd say they will be surprised as he never gets beyond the planning stage.

Lol at the Peppa Pig wrapping paper and the Christmas food order!

Love this, do you have a different tradition now?

I've been meaning to do my own Christmas wreath but hadn't had time to go foraging.
So DH did the foraging and announced proudly that it was all ready for me to use.
Would probably be enough to do a quarter of the wreath.

He was in charge of cards this year, after we received a couple he said he'd better send them some back.
I asked why he hadn't sent them initially as they are in the address book....
Apparently he didn't realise we had to send to everyone in the address book so had picked a random few to send to.

He loves Christmas as much as I do and enjoys the lead up but soon loses interest until Christmas eve.

DH has family scattered around Europe. The only card he ever writes is mine.

2 weeks ago, as I drove him to work (not a regular thing) he announced that “WE must not leave it too late to write and send the Christmas cards”. I then developed a horrible cold resulting in a week off work. No cards have been written. He has not yet discovered that last year I only did cards for his immediate family , local to us. So I doubt he will discover the lack of cards this year.

the last time I did send cards, it cost me over £60 in postage due to the number of cards going to Europe. Of course, he doesn’t pay for them!

DH also complained that he didn’t like how I have distributed the lights on the Xmas tree. He suggested WE undecorate it and reposition them.
I’ve told him to crack on and I wouldn’t be helping. Once is more than enough for me. He hasn’t touched it.

Every November DH declares that now the DC are adults they shouldn't be having so much and that we also shouldn't spend so much money on each other.
Come mid-December he asks if I have bought enough for the DC and he also starts panic buying for me.
It makes me laugh every year...luckily he knows I don't take any notice of him and always have Christmas well in hand.

I panic buy from now until Christmas Eve. For me, it's stocking stuffers for guys. I could fill a bus with all the great ideas I have for my DD and DGD and even DMIL. It's been that way forever, even when my DM and Dsis were alive. Bags of stuff.

But adult guy stocking stuffers? I can't fill a Hot Wheels bus with my "ideas". SIGH

my DH announces every christmas eve.. if we dont have it we dont need it.. he forgets that he has contributed absolutely nothing to the planning and preparation of christmas! he has not bought one gift, written one card or stuffed one turkey.... but when he makes his grand announcement you would think that he himself is the one and only Mr Christmas

Sort of the opposite - I was away working for 3 days last Sunday got back Tuesday night to find DH has taken the Christmas ham out of the freezer and bloody cooked it, it's nearly finished now so I'll have to buy another one - I mean how did he think it would last for 9 days???

DH set off into town yesterday to do his xmas shopping. I've been poorly for the last three weeks so have been doing all xmas shopping online. He needed to get presents for his side of the family who we are seeing on boxing day, and presents for his dad to give to our DC. I asked him to pick up one thing. DD went with him so she could chose a xmas present from her grandad.

They came back with one pair of gloves for DS (he never ever ever wears gloves) and nothing else. DD was almost in tears of frustration. She had chosen a pair of earrings and for some reason DH got distracted and they went elsewhere and didn't get them. He didn't pick up the item for me as it seemed "too expensive" so I've had to order it online and pay for next day delivery which I didn't want to risk.

Today he has a migraine so I've been out to sort his family's presents. Bear in mind I am still not 100% and am on antibiotics. AAARRRRGGGGHHHH!

Mine usually does absolutely nothing but take all the credit so this year I am doing nothing. No traditional Christmas dinner (I hate it anyway), he’s writing the cards, getting the presents etc apparently. We’ll see……👀

Hope You do updates !

@JenniferJupiterVenusandMars How was your Christmas?