Weighing up the "How Early is Too Early" with "Leaving It Too Late"

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I like to plan Christmas , IMO it's half the fun.
But I don't want to have it all done by the start of December. I like the last minute shopping trips when its truely Christmassey. The lights, the cold, the anticipation looking for the right present.

But, today, DH said "D'you want to buy some mince pies" , I said "No, too early"
To which he replies "Not according to the Tesco advert" .......... It's an Advert .

So:
I haven't bought wrapping paper , I'm looking for boxes (but I might not find them)
I haven't bought a Christmas Jumper (they're wafting into the shops now though)
I haven't made my cake (but I made two puddings last year so I'm ahead there)

I want it all done (presents) by mid Dec , then my Big Shopping for Food the weekend before.
DS has a December birthday and DD keeps rewriting her list.So no point buying too early for them.
Any last minute fresh veg, milk, bread on the Friday before Christmas.

And I need to stalk the shelves for the Nutella jars with the name voucher.

Last year DD and I went to London on the 23rd and shuddered at the thought of leaving it all till then (Do people actually do this? Like real life Christmas with the Cranks? )

I have my copies of Good Housekeeping and Woman&Home that I'll read and mark off things.
And buy the TV Times when it comes out.

Last year I was very organised, bought and wrapped all presents by beginning of November.

Each person had their own wrapping paper and I wrote down which wrapping went with which person. All very organised..Dec 23rd I got all the presents out to give them to various folk and the ones for under our tree and what do you know, the notebook I had written everything in had gone AWOL so I then had to unwrap and re wrap several gifts to find out who they were for.

This year I'm buying presents in December!

I have bought most presents and wrapped as i have gone along. Also got quite a lot of food sorted.
Like a pp i always seem to have disasters in dec so aim to do most of it by end of nov.