'Tis the Season for Decorative Trees
Can I just brag about the fact that I'm almost done with my Christmas to do list, and it's still technically the first week of December? We decorated our little tree last Saturday, and had all but a few presents wrapped by the end of the night. We may or may not have gotten distracted by the TV and spent the rest of the evening playing Diablo. I cannot confirm this. >_>
This year, Michael's family decided to switch things up with the kids and their significant others, and did a name pull (like Secret Santa, only everyone knows). This made shopping this year SUPER easy! We have three left in his family to buy for and then BAM, WE DONE SON! WHATCHU KNOW ABOUT CHRISTMAS GIFT SHOPPING?! NUTHIN. *mic drop* I usually wait to buy stocking stuffers until closer to Christmas because I always get Lotto tickets and scratchers for people, and they have a tendency to have a date limitation on them. But shopping for stocking stuffers is always more fun than it is stressful.
How did you fair on Black Friday and Cyber Monday? When do you usually do your Christmas shopping/decorating/wrapping? If you don't celebrate Christmas, what do you usually get into in December?
Holy crap that looks awesome. I wish we could have a tree, but we have a cat. So..yeah. =[ Hehe.
- Anna
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Some friends of mine have two cats and there's no way they can have a tree either. I hear keeping oranges in the tree keeps them away, if that helps any.
Nice! I just finished 80% of our Christmas shopping today. No Christmas decorations though since we're not doing Christmas here this year. But I hear you on the stocking stuffers. They're definitely my favourite part.
I think I'm at this point with Christmas presents where I would much rather get stocking stuffers than actual presents. I'm a difficult person to shop for because the things I want are weird and most people don't know how to deal with that so I would much rather hand them one of my dozen stockings and be like, "Just go to the store and fill this up and I'm cool." My mom always put weird stuff in mine and I love it. Dude, I think you just gave me the perfect topic for a blog post!
Where will you be doing Christmas this year?
We're going to be doing Christmas with my family in Vancouver this year. When we were little we had a rule that we could only open stocking presents before my parents got up, and my mom had made us giant stockings that were as big as we were. Can't wait to see your post!