Organised Christmas 2008.. The countdown has begun!

scattymam1

pinkladymel - I love the tacky red and gold rubbish too - but my husband hates it - I always manage to wangle something in though.

Well, couldn't upload my before photos of my daughters messy room - tried but I needed a url address for it - where do people send their photos so that they can upload them? Are they free? I have them so if I figure it out I will post them.

My house is like a show home as yesterday afternoon the estate agent phoned with a viewing for our house so I tidied and scrubbed and cleaned all evening and this morning. Except my cupboards are stuffed full to the brim now - I didn't have time to sort through boxes and do the ironing, etc; so I just shoved them out of sight. So while the house is clean and tidy I'm going to crack on with decluttering cupboards and drawers, get the ironing sorted and try and keep the house show home esque.

Might even get some crafts done cos it's so tidy.

mum2one

80 days, it sounds like a lot, but even thou Im organised, dd keeps adding people to her xmas list, now got the ballet teacher, the 2 helpers, the lady and the man who teaches her swimming!
Back home tomorrow, the back of the car looks like santas grotto, (got all bags, paper etc + all those extras just incase she comes home with any extra christmas presents.....
xx

mum2one

Thought Id give u a laugh a stunt my dd pulled 2 yrs ago, when she was in nursery, id gone to Tunisa b4 xmas, get a call from mum, ring home urgently.....me I panic......according to dd she needed a present for everyone in nursery... ended up buying 22 presents, got home 11pm wrapped the 22 presents took them into nursery next day..... moral of the story..... the letter gave the names of the children, so they could write cards to each other.........xx

logan

lmfao....bet she had loads of best friends

kalojac

logan wrote: »

just reading this and it made me giggle.....my name is stacey....my first born is called logan who will be 3 in february
We will have lots of fun rebuying the christmas decorations this year as everything is going to be about santa.....we want logan to understand about him
tacky is always good when you have kids...its so much more fun

Ooh, my 2nd born is called Logan he is 5 1/2 we're in Aberdeenshire, and there are 4 Logan's in our town.

I finished my first "teacher" present this weekend.

• Mug - Dunelm mill - 79p
• 2 x Horlicks Sachets - 40p
• 2 x Ovaltine Sachets - 50p
• 2 x Cadbury's Drinking Chocolate - 30p
• 1 x Options Belgium Choclate - 25p
• 1 x Mini Whisk - 75p
• 2 x Lindt Sweets 44p

I cello'd it up yesterday, with a pull bow and homemade tag, and it looks really great. Still x-stitching some cushions for my other hampers.

I am way behind with organised christmas, but have cleaned out some cupboards and intend doing more today.

LOVE THIS THREAD!!:xmastree:

Shevs

Hi everyone

Managed to get a few bits done but what a day, mum called me to see if I fancied having a look around our local craft shop so she can get some ideas for halloween and christmas arts and crafts for the chidren in her class at school. But whilst we were there I got my first ever parking ticket :mad: , I cryed I was that annoyed and I would of had to of taken the money out of my christmas fund cos there was no way I could of afforded it. But my lovely mum said that she would pay for it because I wouldnt of gone there if she hadnt asked me. Then she suggested we go to our local Lakeland shop and treated me to some decorations there, she said that some of them were tacky so I said that they were classy tacky cos it was lakeland stuff lol.

Anyway I managed to finish all my hm pressies but didnt write my cards out. Just cant bring myself to doing it, I really dont like doing it

scattymam1

wow - I haven't even started my hm presents - really have to, need to bribe my husband somehow to take daughter out today but leave me in so I can at least sort some stash out so that I can get started, too much stuff - it takes ages to sort!!! WILL WILL WILL do 1 hour on hm made pressies today.

sarahf191979

scattymam1 wrote: »

wow - I haven't even started my hm presents - really have to, need to bribe my husband somehow to take daughter out today but leave me in so I can at least sort some stash out so that I can get started, too much stuff - it takes ages to sort!!! WILL WILL WILL do 1 hour on hm made pressies today.

I'm the same as you scattymam, got all the stuff to do the HM pressies but not even started them yet.

I too must get started, I will give myself a kick up the b*m and hide the kettle.

Hope you have a productive day.

Sarah
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lamplady

I love reading this thread,

I like to do most of my christmas shopping online these days, but I miss the christmas feeling of the shops, so I now always listen to christmas music online while shopping (http://www.accuradio.com/holidays/ is great) and have a compulsory coffee with a slug of Baileys, just to help with the festive feeling!

My children are all growing up now, and this year their presents are all tiny (in size not cost), so I'm looking for big cheap things to wrap just to make the 'wow' factor when they walk into the sitting room.

So far I have:
A 6 pack of coke and multipack of mentoes (to do the volcano thing)
A multipack of doritos (a real treat as I usually buy smartprice :] )
Hoverdiscs (49p in Home Bargains)

any other ideas? (They are 8,10, 14 and 15)

s23xy_c

I havent really been on the organised for xmas website but I have been reading this thread loads.
So today Ive decided im staying in and decluttering my house. My b/f is at work until 7 so I have loads of time to do it.
Ive already wrapped all the xmas presents I have already bought and written out xmas cards. I have a list of xmas cards I still need to buy and any xmas presents I need to buy.
I have a few birthdays between now and xmas but I have bought the presents and ordered the cards.
So guess I had better get cracking with gutting the house.
Should I go on the organised for xmas website and print off all the stuff you all have?

Claire
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