Christmas is tomorrow, you have this afternoon to get ready...

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What 5 things can you not have Christmas without?

For me, I'd be spending the afternoon:

• decorating the tree
• wrapping kids presents
• chilling champagne for Buck's Fizz breakfast
• buying crackers and getting some games out
• getting the roast dinner trimmings sorted such as pigs in blankets and making proper gravy.

Not sure I could do all that in an afternoon actually!

What is essential for your Christmas?

Insist that the dc get on the train home immediately.
Buy a pile of new books for everyone, plus new PJs.
Buy stuff for lunch.
Put on a Christmas CD and get the tree up.
Pour a glass of Baileys and relax.

1. Nip to M&S food hall
2. Put the tree up
3. Erm... that’s it.

Tree, gifts, trip to Waitrose for ready made pudding, brandy butter, minced pies, roast veg etc etc, trip to to be station to collect family, can’t think of anything else.

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Die Hard is the ultimate Christmas film!

You know what? I’m usually pretty much started by now. I’d have one last ‘town’ shop to do (Primark) and things would be arriving daily.

I quite like the idea of having half a day.

1. I’d go shopping: to M&S for food, gifts, pjs. Primark. Body shop for stocking fillers.
2. Tree (must be real) and decorations.
3. Wrap presents.
4. Christmas music.
5. and most importantly, watch Elf.

1. Get tree up
2. Go to Iceland and get food
3. Go to Poundland for cheap presents fast
4. Clean house
5. Get into pjs

We didn't have a tree last year as we had a new puppy and thought he would eat it. So tree isn't top of my to-do list now. But at a push …

1. Put up those decorations that can't be reached by our now older but no less enthusiastic dog.
2. Wrap presents (thankfully a lot already done, although we still don't know what Father Christmas is going to be bringing).
3. Get something out of the freezer for lunch tomorrow - as long as DH cooks his amazing roast potatoes I'm happy with anything else.
4. Lay dining table.
5. Watch ELF.

1. Bomb out to PC World and Aldi (v close to each other) to buy ds's present, some random stocking presents and a lump of meat to cook.
2. Buy, pot and decorate a tree from the shop round the corner from Aldi including the four baubles I never got around to putting away last year which are still on a shelf
3. Find an old King's College nine lessons and carols service to play on youtube
4. Set up the Angel Chimes
5. wrap the presents

Hmmm - had to think about this one!

1. Get my DCs to put the Christmas tree up - I hate doing it for some reason so that's one less job for me
2. Go food shopping to get things I need for Christmas lunch, make sure I add Cottage Cheese and Coleslaw to my trolley as it's tradition that I always have them with a turkey sandwich on Christmas night
3. Wrap the presents that I already have whilst watching Home Alone 1 & 2
4. Get the veg prepared for dinner the next day and lay the table
5. Clean!

Decorate tree
Christmas music on
Mince pies
Prosecco
My family

If I woke from a coma on 24th December, my house would be fully Xmas blitzed (cleaned, decorated and dinner prepped) within 8 hours.

I've already started wrapping and all but finished Christmas shopping [santa]

I'm not kidding...just reading the title of this thread gives me anxiety OP . In all sincerity, this has given me a real moment to consider what actually is important and has made me a little tearful. My top 5 would be:-

1. Crack open bottle of champagne.
2. Prep roast dinner with help of DH & DCs & set the table.
3. Decorate tree.
4. Wrap gifts.
5. Sit down together and enjoy what we have.

1. Wrap DS's present from Santa. DH has temporarily misplaced the majority of his presents from us that I bought and put away safely , and I probably wouldn't bother wrapping stocking presents.
2. Christmassy diffuser out.
3. Get the stockings out.
4. Whatever decorations I could get up. It usually takes me the best part of a day to get them up, so it would be a scaled back version. Definitely the tree with lights, though.
5. Crack out the fizz.

DS isn't bothered for Christmas dinner (I am, but I'd cope). He'd have beans on toast, I'd have Yorkshire puddings and pigs in blankets out of the freezer, DH would have all of the above, so we'd manage without going food shopping.

We had norovirus over Christmas the year before last, and it helped me see what we really needed for it to be 'Christmas' and what was nice to have if we weren't all puking our guts up had the time.

1. Put Christmas music on and decorate the house. If I don't fluff up the tree the way I normally would and I draft in dm to help I could do that in 2 hours.

1. Send DH to buy what we need for a roast and get him prepping.

1. As I was decorating I'd have to devise a plan for presents. Would most likely just buy a decent bottle of booze for everyone (except the nieces & nephews) but I've already bought for them.

1. Make sure we had ice cubes ready, do a quick tidy through of the house (chucking anything that doesn't belong in to the spare room because no one uses it )

1. Muppets Christmas Carol on, fairy lights on, festive candle lit (I already have a few), champagne cocktail in hand and spend the evening sighing at how much I like the season and wrap the kids presents.

Tree and dinner, anything more is unrealistic.

Ok....
Mine would be:
1- Take pictures with my 2 cats and dog wearing a Santa hat (pets also must be wearing hats and looking ate the camera).
2- Fly my parents here or go to theirs. Must be with my parents at Xmas.
3 - Buy and wrap gifts
4- Watch Xmas movie on Netflix
5- Order Food to be picked up today.

We have the Xmas main meal on Xmas eve, so it would be a hurry!

I could do this!
We had some awful Decembers so I instinctively prepare for Christmas on the fly. The boxes in the attic are organized with the essentials at the front. The children’s presents are wrapped and ready and I could manage something for most adults too if I had to.

1. Hasty house cleaning and some shoving of laundry baskets and random clutter in closets
2. Send DH to shop for a turkey
3. Mull a bottle of wine, put on Christmas music and decorate with dc.
4. Prep dinner while dc watch a Christmas movie.
5. Make choc biscuit pudding.
6. Last minute wrapping.

Epic thread!!! Get tree up
ring family get them to mums house for a few hours (we normally do a weekend in December;))
Elf the film
Celebration sweets and fizzy drinks

Funny I don't care about the dinner!!!

Oh and looks like we're going without presents too;)

1. Buy cards
2. Put money in cards
3. Feed cats
4. Call a cab

5 Get in cab to my parents.

Finish making four Advent calendars for children (they were going to be their Christmas presents, but they'd have to open all the boxes in a day!)
Produce Christmas stockings for two teddies belonging to DGCs - DGD apparently believes Father Christmas fills her teddy's stocking, and I decided her little brother's teddy should get one this year as he's old enough to notice (the DCS, not the teddy).
Write an IOU to DP for some future present.
Buy a load of pretty much instant food, if DGCs and their parents are actually going to materialise here.
Get a tree and decorate it.
This is very unrealistic as just doing the tree would take me most of the afternoon and I'd need a rest afterwards!

1. Alcohol
2. Sun
3. BBQ burgers and Mac n Cheese
4. .... that's about it really.

I would

1. Go online and book holiday somewhere else.. Hot and sunny (do does not ski)
2. Find everyone's passports
3. Order taxis for four dds from their various locations for the morning to get to airport
4. Book dogs into kennels
5. Pack hand luggage only

I hear Christmas in the carribean is lovely ☺

Reschedule to next year