What have you got left to do?

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Things keep popping into my mind "ooo gotta do X" and I need to write a proper list, but this is what I've remember so far...

Wrap DD's presents.
Get cheese.
Steam mop hard floors (have been using the Flash speed mop for a couple of weeks feels like they need a proper go).
Find the FC stocking paper (red tissue).
Clean guest bathroom (including annoying mildew corner).

What have you got left?

I've finished all task but one. I need daughter to write a card for her music teacher.

Buy the bird

Just finished decorating the tree!

Couple more pictures to put up.

Need to clear kitchen buy hey got a couple of days

Tidy up after carpet fitters
Re-assemble our bedroom
Re-assemble front room
Gut the spare room which has been a storage room/dumping ground for the last 3 months
Some general cleaning to get rid of final bits of dust from surfaces + mop whole of ground floor
Put away feed + bedding delivery from feed merchant
Wrap all presents (everything has been bought)
Pick up M+S shop on Xmas Eve and any last bits
Pick the meat up Xmas Eve
Drop 2 charity bags off
Drop dry cleaning off....

.........finally chill out!!

We cleared the spare room this morning. It was also a dumping ground. Including one box we have not unpacked since we moved in 2023.

We also have charity shop stuff to drop off, but I might wait until the new year.

Also need to dust landing ceiling which which is looking a bit too haunted-house-spidery for my liking.

Finish off one present I'm making, wrap three, wait for my Xmas shop on Monday then done. I should probably do some cleaning but I'm a bit 'fuck it, it's Christmas'

I'm wrapping presents this afternoon but I know I'll run out of gift cards/labels. So I'll use what I have. Tomorrow I need a food shop so a trip to Aldi. Tuesday I'll go early to Tesco for the fresh stuff I need. Then the garden centre for gifts of bulbs.

I've just put my red cabbage in the oven to braise :)

Will probably do the cauliflower cheese the day before. Maybe the roasted root veg too as that stands up to reheating pretty well.

Got one present left to be delivered so hoping it turns up Monday!

find the stockings. No idea why they’re not in their usual place…

Rearrange the dining room so there’s space for everyone and everything

Good clean of the bathrooms and floors

M&S collection before work on Monday

Work Monday and Tuesday

Drop gifts to friends

cook ham and prepare chocolate bread and butter pudding

work night out tonight

Pretty much all of it. Could not even think about it until I finished school yesterday. Trying to decide if I CBA to decorate this weekend.

Collect the meat from the village butchers and put away the food delivery Monday evening. If we haven’t got it, we don’t need it or won’t starve.

Oh yes... the cooking.

Tomorrow I'll be baking ginger cake (Nigella's recipe), and a mince meat cake. I've already braised and frozen the red cabbage.

On Christmas Eve, we'll roast the gammon (which I only remembered and added to my shopping order about an hour ago)!

Probably pop to swap late Monday to get a few party food bits for xmas eve. Two presents left to wrap. Then all ready!

Wrap presents
decorate the tree
pick up beef and cheese tomorrow
brave Tescos after work on Monday for fruit and veg and non Christmas food

For next three days
Wrap kids presents
Sort stocking bit and pack stockings
Do final Christmas food shop on Monday, mostly lamb, cheese and salad needed.
Make lemon curd
Make tart au Citroen
Think about another dessert

Xmas eve
Maranade lamb for eve
Remember everything I need to take to mums house (make a list)
Chutney
Frozen crossants
Boxes of presents
Cheese
Candied nuts
Pack Food (I'm only doing Xmas eve food)
Chop cabbage for next day

Xmas day
Prep/cook pigs in blankets
Prep/cook second gf stuffing
Call dad (lives abroad)

Everything .....

Put the Christmas tree up
Buy presents for SIL & mother
Wrap all the presents
Buy Christmas Day dinner & general food shop
Tidy the living room

I've got to give the house (floors mostly) a good going over, but it's been wet and the dog will just muddy them up again so I'm in no hurry. I've been a bit 'not quite 100%' this week so I'm taking today and tomorrow to chill and rest, everything is under control and nobody will die if I don't get the floors clean. Two daughters are coming to stay on Monday so they can help make a start on the food prep and Christmas Eve is when I finish work so I can start cooking after that.

I'm actually feeling quite smug this year because all the presents were bought and wrapped in good time, they're nearly all delivered, shopping is done, tree is up... I wonder what's going to go wrong?

Deliver village Christmas cards
Wrap all presents
Change a book I bought for DH as DS got him the same one
Change beds
clean bathrooms
Clean kitchen
wash floors
sort pile of things I had to take out of drawers in my bathroom for plumber access
start clearing spare rooms for guests coming on 29th so that might wait till after Christmas
buy some wine
pick up Waitrose order
pick up my medication from Boots
pick up trousers I had altered

That is quite a lot!

*Do a full house clean on Christmas Eve, including changing bed linen and washing and drying all towels.
*Wrap all my gifts.
*Sort out my dining room (currently a gift storing and wrapping production line!) and lay my Christmas table.

Clean and decorate garden room- we started this today but things were a little damp so drying it out and will finish tomorrow- we are having mulled wine and nibbles in there on Christmas Eve.

Wrap two bits I found in my wardrobe for dd3

Make table centrepiece

Deliver local Christmas cards

Sort a cheese board to take to a friends on Monday night for a party.

Plan Christmas day food and buy it on Monday. Take glass to bottle bank. Wash Christmas tablecloth and napkins. General tidy round but otherwise sorted. No extended family coming, so it shouldn't be too stressful!

I’m finished , 2 more presents are arriving tomorrow but husband does all the wrapping ( he’s gone to my sisters to help with her wrapping today) . We are eating elsewhere over Christmas and I have plenty of food until then . My husband goes with my sister to collect the meat order / M&S etc as they are all too early in the morning for me .

Have a big deep clean
Go Tesco for the vegetables and trimmings (got the meat last week!)
Do a food shop for the days before and after Christmas
Complete1 more day at work
Make the Christmas dessert
Have a pamper before the big day!

All food shopping
Finish wrapping
Clean bathroom
Regret buying the kids things with millions of pieces and swear not to do so next year