Old Style Christmas Preparations for Christmas 2013

br1armama

An American site so ignore stuff like Thanksgiving, but a great help at Christmas is the Christmas Countdown at Organised Christmas.
Sorry not allowed to put in links as a newby but:-
search for christmas.organizedhome.com/christmas-countdown
There is a ton of organisation/ideas on this site and its links, including housework, recipes, gifts to make. They send you an email reminder of what you ought to be doing every day in the 6 week run-up to Christmas. The Holiday Grand Plan gives a massive cleaning/organising of the entire house plan.:j

clare64

Thanks Lyn
That was just the info I was looking for:j
Clarex

Own_My_Own

br1armama wrote: »

An American site so ignore stuff like Thanksgiving, but a great help at Christmas is the Christmas Countdown at Organised Christmas.
Sorry not allowed to put in links as a newby but:-
search for christmas.organizedhome.com/christmas-countdown
There is a ton of organisation/ideas on this site and its links, including housework, recipes, gifts to make. They send you an email reminder of what you ought to be doing every day in the 6 week run-up to Christmas. The Holiday Grand Plan gives a massive cleaning/organising of the entire house plan.:j

Not sure if this is the one you meant, but it is one of the links from the Holly thread.

http://christmas.organizedhome.com/simplify-your-holidays/get-organized

rjh090384

i am recently disabled tho hope to be back at work in next few months but as a result finances are grim so im having a make your own christmas present type thing this year - im doing hampers, so im making chutneys jams and sop type things - anyone done this or can link me to the best threads as i have no idea what im doing

jollymummy

Oooo how exciting, I blimmin love Christmas, so I'm going to subscribe to thread and read all the posts so far !!

Welsh_Poppy

I adore Christmas as well will have to read back.

alfsmum

rjh090384 wrote: »

i am recently disabled tho hope to be back at work in next few months but as a result finances are grim so im having a make your own christmas present type thing this year - im doing hampers, so im making chutneys jams and sop type things - anyone done this or can link me to the best threads as i have no idea what im doing

There's a Mary Berry recipe for Christmas Chutney on the BBC Food website which comes highly recommended

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1158/mary-berrys-christmas-chutney

Plenty of other chutney and jam recipes on there too if you have a little look round.

Hth

rjh090384

Thanks i found loads of recipes so i know which ones im going to try just not sure how long they will keep - will jam and chutney keep if i make it now x

starlight29

I dont know about chutney but our elderly neighbour makes us jam ( like tonnes of it lol ) and it keeps ages im still having last septembers plum jam on toast in a morning
She does love her jam making oh and her husband makes wine which I have yet to find a use for because trust me you would not drink it lol


Starlight

PenguinOfDeath

Not going to go crazy this year for Xmas.. Last year was the first in own house, was a bit meh to be honest, just had my parents round for dinner but they were a bit under the weather so weren't exactly feeling festive. Plus my mum has the amazing habit or buying us lots of 'useful' presents which all have to greeted with he obligatory smile and thanks before being secreted away to the rubbish pile, id prefer if she just saved her money and bought us say one thing that we day we want, but they won't be told

Only bought a few bits so far, a book from the book people sale as a stocking filler for OH, and also got him the Morph Dvd kit from amazon, a well it's for me really

Also got a couple of little toiletrytsets in the sale, one in orange and one in strawberry flavour, so thinking of doing a little theme set using each for a couple of friends, adding a choc orange/strawberry cremes, liqueurs etc