When will you/did you..

[tasha41]

Start your shopping?

Put up decorations?

Plan your holiday meal?

Plan your holiday parties?



I started my shopping in July, decorations won't go up until December.. same with planning the meals/any baking we do.. and holiday party details (when & where) will probably get ironed out in November..

Anyone got their Xmas ornaments up yet

 

[Erised]

Start your shopping?
Ermm, probably not until November or December. With a little one of the way everyone has already said not to spend anything on them and just use the money on our little one. So we'll just get a couple of little things late, only stuff we might buy early as 'early presents' for bubs, probably mostly clothes

Put up decorations?
Through out the whole house, start/middle of December. Our bedroom I like doing in October/November so I can enjoy it longer, plus we don't usually come back (to my parents house, where we celebrate) until a week before Christmas, and this way the decorations are up already. =D

Can't wait! To be honest, our Christmas lights never came down last year so they're still there.

Plan your holiday meal?
I don't! Thankfully this is up to DH and my dad. They usually plan it 4 days before Christmas

Plan your holiday parties?
It's always the same, so not much planning involved. In Holland (where we celebrate Christmas with my family) we have 2 days of Christmas. What's called Boxing Day in England is just another day of Christmas in Holland.

So on the first day we usually celebrate by having breakfast together (me, DH, mum, dad & brother), open presents with coffee around lunch time and have dinner with my grandmother & grandfather in the evening

On the second day we sleep in, do nothing special until dinner when we have dinner (at ours, both days) with my other grandmother, my auntie & uncle and my cousins.

 

[Vickie]

Start your shopping? started last month, only for Hannah though

Put up decorations? Probably November, we go to Texas in December and take them down before we go

Plan your holiday meal? I don't family plans it and I bring what I'm told

Plan your holiday parties? ummm never really had one though hoping to do an Ontario girls holiday party since Anna is coming to town

 

[Lexi's Mummy]

Start your shopping? started last week

Put up decorations? 1st dec

Plan your holiday meal? leave it to the parents, but bake cookies and cakes etc all the way through december

xx Linzi xx

 

[Pyrrhic]

Start your shopping?

Next week

Put up decorations?

1st week of december

Plan your holiday meal?

already planned We're going to my Mums and its my grandparents 50th anniversary on Christmas Day.

Plan your holiday parties?

Already planned! They start in November. We have a squadron christmas party, a station christmas ball, an officers wives christmas party, my staff christmas party and family parties!

 

[bubbles]

Start your shopping?

Already started

Put up decorations?

1st December

Plan your holiday meal?

Usually 2weeks before but I'm going to my sisters this year

Plan your holiday parties?

Don't do parties although we may be going to DH's works christmas do

 

[mernie]

Start your shopping?
Probably in October

Put up decorations?
The day after Thanksgiving has always been the day for me lol

Plan your holiday meal?
Depends on if I'm even gonna be home for Christmas or not. If I am then I usually start planning right before the last paycheck before Christmas day

Plan your holiday parties?
Usually this gets done in November with any fine tuning done in early December

 

[princess_bump]

Start your shopping? started a couple of weeks ago for miss maddi

Put up decorations? always go up after my b-day, 23rd of Nov

Plan your holiday meal? - normally around start of dec

Plan your holiday parties? not many this year, its the first anniversary of losing nan, so just lots of family time

 

[Kitten]

Start your shopping?
I pick things up in sales whenever I see them, normally July onwards.

Put up decorations?
Start of December, when the advent calendar starts!

Plan your holiday meal?
Depends how much time I have but I normally search for ideas/recipes from the beginning of December or if I see them on TV or whatever.

Plan your holiday parties?
We don't have parties, but the relatives will all be visiting at some point.

 

[Kitten]

Start your shopping?
I pick things up in sales whenever I see them, normally July onwards.

Put up decorations?
Start of December, when the advent calendar starts!

Plan your holiday meal?
Depends how much time I have but I normally search for ideas/recipes from the beginning of December or if I see them on TV or whatever.

Plan your holiday parties?
We don't have parties, but the relatives will all be visiting at some point.

 

[brownhairedmom]

Start your shopping? DONE!! Or at least for Renah anyway

Put up decorations? Probably around the 15th of December

Plan your holiday meal? Someone else takes care of that

Plan your holiday parties? Probably early december!