So what would you do differently next Xmas?

tsstss7

tattycath wrote: »

I will try to buy and wrap presents much earlier-so i'm not still faffing about at 2.30am on christmas morning!!!

This is mine too. I am considering wrapping everything two months early and taking photos with mobby so I dont forget whats in them.:D

jcr16

i wrapped all the pressies as we bought them, then kept a list of what we'd bought for each child. and put all the pressies in the loft. this system is the best that has worked for us so far.

normally i buy everything xmas eve and wrap in a madness, lol. we were organised this yr.

sisbod

Tulip I would have killed them all and to be honest instead of a 'thank you ' card I would send a card saying exactly how I felt about the whole situation and how it made you feel ( I am assuming they didnt come to help with the burst pipes!) I would then wait for apologies and some form of invite to their houses over the next months!

cyclingyorkie

it all boils down to tidiness! I have got to crack this - it is the day before school is back and after the festivities nobody has any idea where DD2's A3 coursework book is for her AS level photography!

It comes to Christmas and the gibble is just shoved anywhere and everywhere - I just have to declutter this house this year!

Lots of other good ideas here, though! Will be taking note!

forever_skint

This Christmas I will not be inviting any family over.

We have 4 young children and I invited over my 90 year old gran and my parents. I was diagnosed with flu and a chest infection 2 days before Christmas .... never again!

The kids got up at 8 and unwrapped their presents, by which time the living room looked like a bomb had hit it.

At 10am my mum phones and says 'we will be there in 30 mins.' That's when panic stations hit, as my gran is like Mrs Bucket. One thing out of place and she doesn't like it, so me, dh and the kids spent a mad half hour chucking all the toys etc upstairs and shutting all the doors. We just finished as they arrived.

My mum took over the Christmas dinner and refused to do DH's roast potatoes in goose fat and burnt the Yorkshire Puddings. We spent the rest of the afternoon playing the logo board game with a deaf 90 year old.

I didn't get one thank you and I was exhausted at the end of the day. I spent no quality time with my kids, and I feel sick at the thought of doing it all again.

Maybe it's like childbirth, I will have forgotten what it is all like come September?! The decorations came down on NYE, I am so glad it has gone!

Then when I went to bed last night I found a letter from my daughter blutacked to my bedroom door

.... MY BIRTHDAY LIST .... Noooooo! Her birthday isn't until 22nd July!