Anyone want to share their ‘still to do’ Christmas list?

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I feel wildly out of control this year. I still need to:

Shop for some last minute gifts although most of the main ones are sorted now.

Post cards to relatives (hoping they will get there by early next week if I post Thursday at latest).

Arrange postal gift for friends dc who is 3 on Christmas Day.

Post local cards through letterboxes.

The full food shop! Only got nibbles, turkey and ham so far.

About 50% of wrapping still left to do.

A big Christmas clean and tidy before people arrive on Christmas Day.

All of this while working (up until 23rd), usual chores and dealing with the kids numerous christmas plans.

God it looks worse now I’ve written it down.

Not got DC presents yet. DH will hopefully get to it Friday. Most of the food ordered for collection Monday. If we need anything else we'll pick up Tuesday or Wednesday.

It's no biggie. No point getting stressed about it.

Last posting day for 2nd class is tomorrow Wednesday

So, people still send Christmas cards?!

I have a couple of cards still to do, a few presents still to buy and lots of wrapping still to do. But I've already done masses of cards, bought loads of presents and wrapped a lot, too. It just seems never-ending, and unfair. There's the food shopping to do, too.

Not many but yes, to family who don’t live nearby and also to a few local people in our village.

Doing the work of the baby Jesus here, thanks very much 👍

I love sending and receiving cards!

Yes, I like my relatives who I’m not going to see to get a card from me to show in thinking of them. We receive quite a few too. Family is all over the place geographically so we won’t see them all. My colleagues all do them too so I’ve written them to my team. Still get them from my cousins in their 20s too.

Still to do;
Finish packing
Deliver gifts for friends son tomorrow, friends daughter and friend on Christmas Day.
Get DC to various Christmas events, hairdressers etc.
keep the holiday a secret.

Buy six vouchers.
Wrap GC presents.
Wrap DH presents
Wrap stocking stuff.
Go through stash of food and make meal
plan for the week and buy stuff to fill gaps.
Err, err…
Write letter to go in card for elderly relative.
Stick cards through neighbours letter boxes.
Not so bad and will probably get it done tomorrow.
Now worried I have forgotten something.

I’m guessing if you’re doing this on your own you have a full time job and no partner and that is tough.

I do an online shop, online gifts, I haven’t had to leave the house at all!! But, I have a husband who I can share things with, so it’s not stressful at all for me as we share the load. So having to do everything on your own does sound stressful!

20% of gift buying
100% wrapping
Some cards for colleagues for my last work day tomorrow
Write and send cards for relatives
Decide on what I'm wearing xmas day (buy new outfit?)
Xmas food shop online
Drink wine
Eat Pate

You still have time ❤️ I have still got about half the wrapping to do too, plus local cards to dish out. DD and I always make Christmas biscuits for our elderly neighbours, but I think that will have to wait until the 23rd when we're both free! I have a load of tidying and cleaning to do here for Christmas (no-one is coming, it's just a bomb site!). Were having Christmas dinner at my grandmother's (I am cooking, she can relax!) and I promised I'd go over and give her place a clean so she doesn't worry about it. I'm also finishing the food shop tomorrow evening with my Dad.

I have bought presents for DD, DH and my side. I have also reminded DH to get his own family sorted a few times. I used to do that for him but he's a big boy and I'm sure he should be able to manage.

Now that I've written all the above I'm feeling more stressed than I was before! 🤣

Plus the elves need to "do things" every night!!

Ooo, surprise holiday sounds amazing!

Op- it seems you might be my, except am working til the 24th, including weekend! Basically I’m like that Christmas film- I’ve a day to sort Christmas!!!

Cards for posting are written - just need to take them to the post box

Write cards for friends and neighbours

Wrap family presents and seal up the present bags I’ve already sorted stuff into

Put decorations up

Supermarket shop for Christmas treats / party snack foods (we are going out for our Christmas Day lunch)

I am at home so have plenty of time to do things.

I do have a dh but he also works. We will do some of it together but most likely he will watch dc so I can just crack on. He cooks the whole Christmas lunch so at least I can relax a bit come Christmas Day.

I just always find this lead up to Christmas incredibly busy and stressful. My favourite time is the week between Christmas and new year when there are no obligations to do anything and we can just lounge about eating leftovers.

• Buying a Christmas tree (bring it inside the day before Christmas Eve)
• Buy one last Christmas present
• Build a gingerbread house
• Vacuum/Hoover
• Grind mustard for the lutfisk
• Eat candy

Everything. Literally everything. I moved house a few days ago and, unsurprisingly, that’s overshadowed everything else. I’m hosting my mother, her partner, my grandmother and possibly an uncle for Christmas Day and I have two children, preschool and younger, so I really must get my arse in gear.

ETA wait not literally everything. I have bought my eldest a new bike and we decorated the day after we moved in. A questionable decision perhaps but I couldn’t bear to put him off any longer, he’s been so excited.

Not loads, but feels like it with a little over a week to go.

I still need to:

• sort stocking fillers
• take dc shopping to choose their gifts for family members
• wrap pretty much everything
• take nursery and school gifts in
• get dh a couple of bits
• edit still need to put the tree up, but promised elder dc we'll do it Christmas eve once little ones in bed

Thankfully both dh and I get paid this weekend, so we've got a bit of flex with shopping.

I reckon I’ve around 10 hours of wrapping to do! 6 kids plus 2 kids birthdays! Youngest is tomorrow and middle daughter is on Christmas Eve!
Xmas food shopping
Prepare myself for DP having 2.5 weeks off work… luckily I’m working throughout the Xmas period so that’s something I suppose 😅
Take the dog to the groomers for his “Xmas bath” and that’s about it!

It was a last minute decision, we really want to take our kids for a trip given what our family has been through this year.
I thought it would be fun to make it a surprise and not tell our DC, so it can be a present for them

Things done. Nothing, other than counting up who wants what for dinner. Things to do. Everything other than counting up who wants what for dinner. Not the best of starting places at this late date. X

Us too!! Sometimes I love that bit of writing Christmas cards with a nice drink and music on, whilst he puts the children to bed. I’m more like your husband as I love cooking Christmas dinner (we have ours later), I can chill for a bit in the kitchen ‘watching things’ whilst the others play with their presents and the grandparents entertain. My siblings and I are in the kitchen with a glass of what we enjoy and have a natter!!

I don’t mean to sound smug, but we do all the gift buying on Black Friday and all online (same with food for Christmas) so we don’t have any stress in the lead up to Christmas. We are lucky and have 2wks off and just want to maximise the fun and minimise the chores. We both have full time stressful jobs and have done all we can to minimise stress and enjoy the time we have as a family.

I have to wrap presents and organize the stocking stuff into bags ready to fill on the 24th.

Mail a couple of cards.
Order flowers for recently bereaved aunt. Better do that now!