Old Style Christmas Preparations for Christmas 2013

craigywv

love the thread!!!!!!!!!!!i have a good chunk of my pressies bought, my ds aged 9 is a lego freak so got quite a few things for him in sales in January also got most smaller bits in too I LOOOOOOVE CHRISTMAS!!! also got a tin of Christmas only money lol for grub so well started this yr. xxx

Julie67

Ooh I love the Christmas OS thread, I've subscribed:j

I've bought a couple of little bits already. I do prefer to buy them throughout the year. Last Christmas was spent in Australia so a bit of a mad rush. I'm hoping to enjoy a traditional day this year.

I find the grabbit board really useful and used it lots last year. I find my eBay sales buy lots of our Christmas presents so I tend to buy from companies that let me pay with Paypal. June is such a busy month for us birthday wise so try and get that out of the way and then really get stuck in

carolbee

I too love Christmas and the planning for it. Will be extra special as our almost 3 years old granddaughter will be here from Australia, with her parents.

Just bought nigella Christmas at a charity event, £1, will save that for a rainy day look at

kittiej

There's nothing wrong with planning for Christmas now - after all this is what all the retailers will be doing as we speak

My DH mentioned something about a Christmas drawing set in Home Bargains yesterday but as usual I wasn't paying attention to him

I'm thinking of looking at the Tesco rewards exchange offers to see what I can get for Christmas pressies.

Nanamia

Ooooh thank you another Christmas thread you can't get too much Christmas. I will be starting a little later than usual this year cos of our hols but I shall be subscribing and keeping up with your preparations. I too thought I'd see if I could double up my tesco vouchers for presents to put away.

CountingPennies

Subscribed! May is a mega hectic month (6 birthdays) so i'll be on board 1st June!

Ho Ho Ho!

Thanks for the links Zippy!

sketchingkari

Great thread, thanks for starting it

I have been working on christmas items for the cross stitch magazines for a few weeks now whilst humming jingle bells and thinking about what to do this year.

My lists were started this morning, I will be doing gift baskets for all the adults with little bits and pieces, which I will buy when I see them.

This will be my first year of being super organised, we are lucky, as DH gets his bonus just before christmas, so we normally do all of our shopping on 21st Dec, but because we are in a hurry, we spend far too much, and the bonus soon disappears We have about 20 people to buy for in addition to each other and our 3 kiddies, so its a mad scramble.

Linda32

CountingPennies wrote: »

Subscribed! May is a mega hectic month (6 birthdays) so i'll be on board 1st June!

Ho Ho Ho!

Thanks for the links Zippy!

:rotfl: Maybe you should start preparing for May sometime around October!

CountingPennies

Linda32 wrote: »

:rotfl: Maybe you should start preparing for May sometime around October!

I tend to start buying birthday gifts in the christmas sales, but this year its "big" birthdays so its lots of meals out too and party planning! Its no go for my waistline i can tell you that! :rotfl:

buggalugs

Thank You Zippychick I haven't even thought about it yet, which is very odd for me lol This is just what I need to raise my spirits and get myself moving. You are a star