So, what's left on your Christmas to do list??

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I need to

Panic buy another present for my mum
Panic over what I'm going to wear on Christmas Day
Finish icing the cake (it's marzipanned already)
Clean the bathroom
Clean the kitchen
Make up the spare room bed
Finalise the Tesco order coming tomorrow
Get turkey and beef from Costco (dh job)
Make lasagna for Christmas Eve
Make pear and cranberry pies

It doesn't sound too awful but with a 5 and 2 year old constantly underfoot I'm getting nowhere fast!

A million other things that I've forgotten.....

Buy Christmas tree
Decorate house
Mop floors
Finish washing and ironing
Charity shop run
Library book run (or will get fines - again!)
Last food shop
Get face defuzzed
Buy more booze
Alter son's dress shirt (he is skinny, it is not)
Collapse in heap

And have just discovered that said skinny son with too fat shirt has gone to work without telling me that the extremely expensive, very flipping expensive light bulb in bathroom has gone. Thanks son.

As well as all the Christmas stuff I still have to do I promised my DC I would have decorated the kitchen and painted 12 internal doors by Christmas......sadly I can't see this is going to happen!!

Halfway through the wrapping and need to add another item to my list:

Buy more wrapping paper

I always under estimate!

What a great idea for a thread. Here's my list. I'm hosting Christmas Day and Boxing Day (eh, how did that happen?)

• Post Christmas cards
• Write Christmas cards for local delivery and deliver
• Tesco shop coming at 1pm today - try to accommodate it somehow in larder/garage
• Clean whole house. Have started upstairs and DCs bedrooms done
• change our bed sheets
• try on all the clothes I've bought and decide which ones to keep (probs none) and try to return others before Xmas
• cook Boxing Day pulled pork and freeze. Currently marinating
• make cranberry sauce and veggie dish
• paint nails and defuzz
• make Costco shopping list
• Waitrose collection tomorrow
• tidy up patio and move dead/dying plants out of view
• have a few restorative Sherrys

Best get a move on as currently undressed.

Bugger

• wrap remaining presents.

Does everyone wrap stocking presents? I didn't have this as a child and haven't done it for my DCs but am contemplating.

I need to:

• buy dd2 some tights to go with her dress
• tidy the house
• buy wine/beer/Buck's Fizz
• wrap the last few presents
• draw cash out for the two older dc
• but a few essentials (bread, cheese, milk, etc.).

I think that's it. I have work tomorrow so I have the rest of today and Saturday to get it all done. Should be plenty of time.

I wrap stocking presents Deux but that's because books don't fit in the stocking

Oh crap, just remembered I need some crackers too. I forgot about those.

I don't wrap stocking presents!

Luckily just unpacking the Christmas delivery today. Yesterday I came down with a god awful head cold and feel too shagged to do anything.

I've had some kind of out of body/out of my mind experience.

As a child, stocking presents were never wrapped and part of the fun was having a good squeeze and putting your hand in not knowing what your little fingers would connect with. Soft, hard, squidgy, crinkly, hard, smooth.

There was a thread on here with loads of people saying they wrapped stocking presents. FOMO. Anyway I'm not going to wrap. Phew.

No. You don't wrap the stuff in the stocking. The whole point is to tip it out and be overwhelmed with the sight of everything all at once.

I've just got to make the fudge to go on DS2's birthday cake. I'll do that tomorrow ready for Christmas Eve. Everything else is done.

Salad & fruit shop
Seafood shop
DD's GP appt
Tidy & clean kitchen, dining & lounge
Wrap 3 presents (all the rest are done)
Bake cheesecake
Go to church (DH will go to the cricket. Which is pretty much his church!)
Pack for 3 days at inlaws
Set up DD's main gift (its too big to take with us - but need to unpack it and get it ready for when we come home)

Bugger forgot about returning books to the library, that's another one to add to the list. And forgot to buy batteries. But cleaning is crossed off the list now thank goodness.

Its my last day in work today and I'm tackling the Christmas food shop when I leave here (hosting). Picking up the Goose and Dessert tomorrow morning.

I need to wrap a few more presents which I will do tonight.

Cook the biggest ham in the universe (tomorrow's job)

tidy up a few rooms (we have a cleaner - praise be - so just gotta put clothes away and run the hoover round

Put my feet up and open the wine!

Food shop today
Wrap one last present
Make up DD's flat packed "big present"
Put DD's Christmas Eve goodies in hamper

Just realised I've no fruit for trifle! Will some frozen blueberries do? I know they won't....darn!

Having spent many years living abroad where they are very laid back and chilled about Xmas, and Xmas preparations, in the nicest possible way, it baffles me at the amount of pressure that people put on themselves.

I feel exhausted just reading some of these lists!!

I'm intrigued by the number of people changing beds - surely you don't do that specifically for Christmas?

The only reason i'm ironing bedding is because it's new and ironing is quicker than washing and drying it (plus i have a million things to wash already what with spare clothes/pe bags coming home from school).

And no i don't do it specifically for christmas but i change the sheets fortnightly which just so happens to be this weekend anyway.

Same applies for table cloths. I have never had one and am hosting at my house this year (i normally cook at other peoples houses) so thought i should get one. It's very creased but again ironing is quicker than washing and drying it.

PurpleMcPants I do mine weekly usually Saturday (dc) Monday (ours) but am doing them Friday/Saturday instead just so they're done.