*Stop The Cavalry* It's The 2014 Christmas Chatter Thread

freespirit66

Evening everyone, my DS has not long been back in from his weekend away in his old uni city, and made me giggle about four times ive told him to get to bed, too much excitement at this time of night is not good for me haha, god i love his sense of humour :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

NITNURSE wow you really are organised in all aspects, i thought i was a bit of a twit buying the chocolate oranges yesterday, now i feel better after reading that

PIXTOTTS can people just canvass any street with Avon, i always thought you had fixed areas?? Ooh i love the sound of your Pina Colada

DROPSOFJUPITER so do i, no matter what i go on for i always end up adding to my christmas board

OMO love the quote, just seen your savings total, wow go girl!!! That is unbelievable

CAZ oh i hope your new medication is just what you need, good luck!

NEWTHRIFT they turned out really well but not too keen on the actual brownie layer i bet you are counting down the minutes now

NANAMIA oh what a view! hope you have all had a lovely week, look forward to hearing all about it

FeistyFidget

Omo that total is amazing!

Nana so glad to have you home, you've been missed!

Free spirit, glad your son is home

Thank you everyone for survey sites, I've set up a seperate email and fingers crossed will make some pennies

Still no flat viewings

blue_eyed_girl

Only had time to read and run lately Nanamia I'm afraid as things have been a bit manic here but hopefully things will ease a little bit soon. Lovely to have you back btw - looking forward to hearing all about it.

Cannot believe how much the CV fund has grown OMO - well done you :T

Got early morning drs appt for blood tests - nothing to eat since 8am last night.


Take care everyone


b_e_g

princesskitty29

OMO wow your CV fund has shot up! Well done, great achievement. I really must learn how to sell on Facebook!

Feisty so glad to hear you enjoyed your evening out. I think vouchers as presents are a great idea - especially with difficult people! I am never disappointed to receive vouchers, gives me an excuse to go shopping. Sorry to hear you haven't had any viewings yet but stay positive. I think you've already had lots of survey site suggestions but just in case I though i'd mention that I do really well with Ipsos, I build points really easily and have also had free full size samples of products to try.

Freespirit and nitnurse you are so organised! Great to hear and you're inspiring me! I've always wanted to buy all of my cards for the year at the beginning of the year so I don't run around like a headless chicken buying a card and trying to post it in time, so next year might be the year....

Mojoworking I hope your cold clears up soon. I can't say I ever come across ping pong balls, but if I do I will let you know!

Pixtotts I hope the people pay up soon! It's frustrating having to wait for payment. Hope you enjoyed your pina colada! :beer:

CazD2008 wishing you lots of luck with the fertility treatment, I really hope this works for you and that you get an early Christmas present. x

Nanamia welcome back! What a lovely view, I hope you had a wonderful time and are well rested.

B_e_g I hope the blood test goes well, these things are never pleasant!

I hadn't been on my Pinterest boards for ages but I had a look last week, there's so many good ideas on there that I must do/implement! I'm going to make it a new goal soon that I have to do one of these ideas at least once a month, I am so guilty of pinning lots of things but then never going back to them!:o

mrs-moneypenny

morning all
welcome back nanamia
omo you are doing fantastically
beg hope the tests go well
pixitotts, someone tried to steal our road from our avon lady she reported it to her boss and the other person had to stop leaving their books in her street. (from what i understand she gained a few extra customers as she knocked and asked if they wanted an avon order as she was the street rep and not the person who had left the books so they mostly gave her their orders.
hope everyone is well sorry if ive missed anyone

busy weekend Dh off on friday as Ds2 needed his brace fitting, then had a friend round for a cuppa, busy saturday as Ds2 wanted to move his room round so all the furniture had to come out. DD3 and fella round to watch BGT final glad they won as i loved their version of tat song. DD2 and fella round on sunday for dinner. now everyone back at school or work so im back on cleaning and catch up duty.

newthrift

:wave:
Well it's bucketing it down here and we have had some big claps of thunder:(
Nanamia - welcome back! Looks a beautiful place
BEG - hope your tests go well!!
Freespirit - Ahh that was a shame about the brownie layer! Yes I very much am, picking him up at approx 2pm :j
Pixitotts - hope you get it sorted and get your customers back!

Work is horrendous!! Things keep breaking, customers shouting and this morning my mouse stopped working so I plugged in the 'plug-in' mouse and when coming back up whacked my head on my desk and it now feels a little bruised

pixtotts

freespirit66 - your right, Avon you are allocated streets and not supposed to wander unless family, friends, or they ask you for a book... Well this lady also does kleeneze, which has no territory, so she's taking her kleeneze books to new places getting orders then when she takes their next book shes also taking a Avon book and claiming they are friends as they are kleeneze customers boo! Means she's reaching out into others peoples areas all over the place
mrs-moneypenny - thanks hopefully it works out as well for me as it did for your rep. It does give me an excuse to recanvas I guess, put out I'm your real rep letters with books see if any that said they didn't want any before have changed their mind

The Pina Colada was good I think they are my favourite

Todays a busy one, I've posted parcels, 2 different places because one was parcelshop and the other was collect+ ! I didn't know so many places existed , was finally able to get rid of that big ebay box though she will be happy it was posted in less than half an hour after she paid lol.
I went checking on my Avon streets again checking where exactly she had dropped books.
Then I went for a run luckily it stopped raining just as I got there
Now bath time, then fetch sis from college, then WI tonight... I need my bed already! lol
X

Gettingtherequickly

Been thinking! I know that is dangerous, but was thinking about how organised OMO is with her links etc, so was wondering, and please don't kill me (!) do you have a timeline list somewhere on when things should be done, if poss, to reduce pressure.

I know that shopping is throughout the year and we all strictly adhere to that , but what about everything else?

I have made my first Christmas cake of the year and plan to have all ready to mature by end of Sept, so that will be one job out of the way, but what about everything else?

I'm sure most of us have Christmas cards bought already, so shall we all aim to have them written by end of August, maybe 1 or 2 a week which we won't notice time wise, but would notice 1/2 a day if all done together?

Any other suggestions? For obvious reasons, time can't be rigid, but if there was a guide to enter on calender, should help make for a chilled, smug December:rotfl:

Linz4383

hi
figured it was time to join the christmas thread
i have so much to do before december, however most of the christmas shopping is done!!!!!
am due to have my second baby not long after christmas so need to be making sure the house and christmas is all sorted :O
over the next couple of weeks i need to pack up all the xmas pressies as they are in the spare room which is being gutted! so will check my cmas list and see whats left to get

newthrift

GTC - that's not a bad idea!!
I always spend 1st December doing my Christmas decorating around the house, if I should be at work I book the day off as I love having Xmas songs & films on whilst doing it.
Last week of November decorating Xmas cake.
End Oct/Beginning Nov Xmas cards written. I don't have too many so this is fab for me. Sept I make sure I have all my Xmas gifts and then go for a big shop day for any last bits I don't have + I then sort everything in to bags with peoples name (just carrier bags). Beginning December I spend a couple days wrapping presents for me doing it then is perfect as my OH sometimes ends up odd late nights working in the garage so I pop something Christmassy on TV and do it then. I try to food shop for anything that won't go off for actual Xmas day/week from September (meal plan is already done basic so will review & amend as I see fit nearer the time. As we don't have children yet and don't have masses of cards ect doing everything when I do fits in great but I know a lot of people will need to be doing most of this a lot earlier, but this is just what works for us (at this time, I'm sure once we have children it will change and I will be doing some of this earlier in the year)!

OH is home, so glad he is back he had a nice time but said a couple of them were just awful but overall it was a good time so I am glad! Time for tea soon as beef has been in the slow cooker all day YUM YUM!