How much of Christmas stuff does your partner do?

[BlackBag]

Secret Santa for his work and sometimes gets the tree.

[abgirl]

Nothing this year except buying and wrapping my pressies, but I am letting him off as he has been fitting our new kitchen every night for the last 2 weeks, and is now laying flooring in the hall and dining room. (I quite enjoy doing all the christmas stuff really)

[marriednotmulled]

We discuss what DCs want and agree presents.

He writes cards for his family (eventually and under great sufferance). Does most of the cooking by choice. Buys my present after I have told him what I want and where to buy it- preferably online- which he will then ask DD to wrap

I do absolutely everything else.

His idea of Christmas is to relax and feed/entertain friends and family, the stuff I do is window dressing it seems. Happy to accept compliments for my mince pies and OCD tree though...

He's paying for most of it this year though so I can almost forgive him

[crazygracieuk]

He does
Secret Santa for his work
Buys gifts for me
Cooks Christmas dinner (One of the few times that he cooks)
Buys tree and decorates house
Goes to work so we can afford Christmas!!

I
buy gifts
do cards
organise groceries
organise children's Christmas social events

[GoodKingSlubbersArseFellOut]

Buys the cheese
Orders the wine, port and fizz from the wine society
Buys one present (mine)

It's fine. He's at work all the live long day and I enjoy doing all the Christmas stuff.

[traceybath]

He buys my presents and I do all the rest.

But he works very long hours and I like doing all the christmas stuff.

[lucysmam]

Absolutely anything I ask him to! Apart from cook the turkey for Christmas dinner, because I like to be in control of what goes on in the kitchen, but he does help with the other stuff.

He shops, puts decs up, writes cards, takes dd1 out. All sorts

Oh, I don't let him near the cakes either, they're my thing to do that's just me, in the kitchen, with my Christmas cd on singing away to myself

[notquitenormal]

Puts the room decorations up (I do the tree)

Write the cards for his freinds & family (I never do cards...wasteful rubbish IMO)

Decides the presents for his family, me and DS's gift for me (I do my family, him and DS's gifr for him.) We work together on DS's gifts. I buy anything online, he buys anything from a shop.

For Xmas dinner he does the veg and the gravy. I do the starter, meat and pudding. We both clear up. We both clear up.

I wrap everything. He delivers.

He would like me to do all his thinking and organising for him, but he isn't daft enough to think I actually will.

[Litchick]

DH does a lot of on line shopping for his parents and the children...but I wrap up.

I do the cards.

We buy the dress the tress en masse.

I order the turkey and would happily order the other food, but DH insists that we shop in rl. Quite why he wants to fight his way around M&S buying pickles and parsnips is anyone's guess.

[Litchick]

We buy and dress the trees en masse.

Not been at the sherry, honest.

[Earthymama]

It's so lovely to hear these stories, when things are shared in a way that suits everyone.

We do tree and decorations together (we were ill in mid-tree dressing and abandoned it until the next day!)I love this as when I was married I did almost everything on my own.

We share present duties, though DP does ALL the wrapping. We share the cooking too. We do get a bit narky though as we both no right, nothing that mulled wine can't put right
My son and daughter seem to have found trhe right balance for their families, too.

I was shocked to speak to a friend last Saturday whose partner had made NO contribution to Christmas at all, financial or practical!!

[taffetazatyousantaclaus]

Gets tree and puts it up
Buys me a present
Whines about how much has been spent and then listens to everything that has been arranged, bought, prepared, cooked etc and then shuts up and leaves me to it

Works for us

[nickytwotimes]

dh does almost everything.

i bloody love him!

[ClaireDeLoon]

Chooses the tree (I'm rubbish at choosing), gets it onto the roof, get it up and decorated, inc retreiving decs from loft.

Moans about the fact I put my foot down to coloured lights.

Helps with cleaning.

Comes up with rubbish gift ideas for his family.

Buys me a present.

[unfitmother]

Bugger all!
A bit unfair - he buys the tree and puts some lights up.

[ReshapeWhileDamp]

He lugs the tree to the car (actually no, that tends to be one of the tree men at the tree place). Ok, he lugs it into the house and lifts it onto the stand. Then holds it straight while I screw the clamps on.

Um. He gets the boxes of Christmas Stuff out of the loft? I'm really struggling here!

He does buy presents. But I've been buying most of them this year for DS, his niece etc.

He is rubbish about thinking up present ideas for his family and I have to press him to get something nice, if, for instance, I know a relative of his always gets us something special.

He does do much of the cooking, to be fair. We do the food shopping together.