I haven't sorted anything for Christmas yet...nothing! Aibu?

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Never happened to me before but this year.
Just curious about if I'm only the only one sooo behind. No food, no presents! OMG Aibu or crazy?

I've got decorations up and most of the Christmas food. Not 1 present. I'm doing it next week. Can't be fucking arsed though.

Good on you, it’s one day, just relax and enjoy, we have done a massive scale back this year and it feels fantastic.

No Christmas tree, no decoration, no gifts!! I despair... Don't know where to start :(

Don't you worry OP, I am highly unprepared as well this year. Haven't done much of my Christmas shopping (thankfully not many to buy for) and the food is coming next Thursday... only the 21st 😳

I did the presents early as we had a terminally ill family member, however they died recently so, no food shopping done, or wrapping, or the extra bits you buy with your food shop. Going to be a busy week, we have no decs up yet neither. It's hard when you are grieving, but I have to get on as we have a dd who really enjoys Christmas

I am so sorry for your loss gillybeanz.

I am in exactly the same situation as my mum died last month. Paying for her funeral has also put paid to my usual extravagences. Like you I have to get on, not just for my own family, but as a foster carer I must make Christmas good for them. But I just wish it was all over as quickly as possible and hated decorating the tree today.

YANBU. It's just one day. All you need is a fancy roast, a bit of tinsel, and some nice pressies. On Xmas Day the sale and holiday adverts will start and everyone's focus will have changed by lunchtime.

I've ordered the meat, have lobster in the freezer and am doing as much online shopping in the evenings as i can deal with. Christmas is OK, but the pressure from retailers is huge and saps the joy out of what should be a nice, cosy time of year. i would be jetting off somewhere hot and sunny away from the madness if it wasn't for my Mum.

I decided a few years ago not to start with all the Christmas stressing till the schools broke up. It saves weeks of worry. I'm not great at all that organising anyway so it makes little difference to the end result if I stress for weeks (or months) or just done what I can in the time. When I go with the careful planning ahead option I always end up finding stocking filler hidden in a little used drawer the following June that I have bought a few weeks in advance and forgotten all about by Christmas.

Best way

If I did Xmas I wouldn’t bother until the week before.

It’s a roast.
I wouldn’t want a tree in my front room and decorations are a bit meh.

Don't worry - I'm terribly behind too. Loads of presents still to buy. Only baked the Christmas cake today. Half way through wrapping the contents of 21 stockings for the residents of the home I work in. Have Christmas party and games to organise and prepare [for approx 50] at the home for Wednesday. After that will get on with our own Christmas - very large family so 5DD's adult stockings and pressies for under the tree not to mention 5 DGC. Love it all - just so lucky to be healthy and energetic. Not sure why I feel so calm. All will be fine for all of us I'm sure!

I've been like this for several years. Had hoped to get my cake done sooner this year, but it's still several packets of dried fruit waiting to be picked over chopped and soaked ... I'm hoping to get my kids to motivate me to clean tomorrow and then we'll think about decorations. A couple of presents are bought but basically need to get things this week. It'll be ok!

The major thing that has fallen by the wayside is Christmas cards. I failed to do them in sensible time one year, really wanted to write better ones the next year, then started thinking about writing some catchups in summer instead ... several years later I do still feel awful that I can't manage to send Christmas cards.

This was me last weekend. I hadn’t bought a single thing

I got in the Internet on Monday abd ordered lots and then went shopping on Tuesday for other presents. On Thursday I did a food order for click and collect. So all done now.

Make a list or in fact several. You’ll be fine!

lonelymelissa

I'm sorry for your loss, too my love.
It's hard enough at any time, but everything was so slow, over two weeks for the funeral.
It's a long time to be in limbo and look out for others, when those around you are running around and busy, it feels like slow motion.

For those unable to have been organised earlier, for whatever reason

gilly sorry for your loss. There's never a good time but it's hard at Christmas.

I've done ok with lots of stuff but just realised today that I've now missed all the supermarket last dates for ordering a turkey. So shopping at dawn on the 23rd/24th it will now be!

I started —and almost finished— shopping today. I feel so much better than I did this morning. However I have just discovered that due to staff illness dh is now working every day until Christmas Day (he was supposed to have three days off this week) so I am going to be Christmas food shopping and baking on my own with all three ds in tow. Ffs!

I'm going to ask Father Christmas for the next year a ticket to Manhattan, a fancy 5 star hotel, tickets for the theatre, shopping and sightseeing romantic places with my husband plus the kids running wild when I take them to the iconic toy shop there.
Church on Christmas Day, eating out and more sightseeing and Lots of snow.
Is it too much to ask...? Aww can't sleep just dreaming about it :)

We got the tree and decorated it yesterday but apart from that I have bought no presents apart from one small present for my eldest son's Santa stocking. Have got no food or drink unless you count the slowe gin that's still fermenting. And we are hosting six for Xmas day and ten on Boxing Day. I'm completely relaxed.

I’m a list maker!

I make lists in October. Ok, I start then but I don’t have the mad rush panic.

I buy stuff from list if it’s there when I’m out. I order stuff that’s for online during half term - because I am off work to receive it!

I get the food I want if is on offer throughout December.

I just have my list of food (shopping Friday) and chores (doing Saturday) before guests arrive Sunday.

But I’m very chilled and not panicked - despite most of my list being incompleted (even the boys I should’ve done by now )

@youarenotkiddingme I am planning on doing a list before new year and pick stuff up throughout the year so it's not a mad rush in December. I want Christmas shopping done with by August so I can actually enjoy the festive period instead of faffing about on Christmas markets with a toddler

I'm very chilled this year. It all feels more low key.
Panic is a thing of the past. Things have changed - in the olden days you had to drive miles to the shopping centre and go to different shops to buy loads of different presents for mother-in-law , sister-in-law etc.

now you don't need to do that, don't need to leave your sofa!

you could now, tonight, buy three or four items online - eBay / Amazon and also booked an online food shop - I got a Sainsbury's delivery for the 22nd, last week, having never done a Christmas online food shop before.

so I think these days, in half an hour, you can get mainly sorted.

Yes Oblomov17 I totally agree with you.

Amazon - eBay - online shopping for food, etc etc are all our best friends nowadays!

I also love the idea of spending the festive period abroad ( Manhattan:) but at the same time I don't like crowded airports, airlines strikes, travel disruptions due to bad weather and so on...

Sitting on the fence on that one...what do you prefer? Christmas and New year at home or somewhere else in the world?

I have practically sorted presents, but my children are in that stage where Christmas is still exciting but they no longer go to bed at 7, so has to be sorted while they are at school.

For food in the past few years I have done click and collect but ended up queuing for ages past fridges full of turkeys for sale to pick up the specific Turkey that we selected online months earlier. This year I am going to clear the fridge, get most of the stuff in on Wednesday after dropping them at school. Anything which needs to be fresher I will get on 23rd. Or actually because that is likely to be the Turkey, and it is dh who is so keen on Turkey I might just send him. If all else fails, the shops open again on Boxing Day. How far wrong can it go 😁😁.

Pull up a chair and join the Christmas loafers party I COULD have got up early and started the shopping... but here I am hours later still on mn drinking tea and eating crumpets in my jammies completely blase about the whole thing

Chill, it's only one day.

Make a list of some food and gifts. Order online. Job done!

YANBU. It is all a big hype for one day anyway.

Bah humbug 😁