Originally Posted By wahooskipper I am going to think about it sooner than 9 months so I don't get into this trouble all over again. I will recommend Overstock.com. I got some good bargains from them and the shipping worked out well. I didn't even have to stand in line.
Originally Posted By Ursula Overstock is great except I hate the return policy. So I avoid it by not shopping there any more.
Originally Posted By dlkozy For those that really want to get organized for next year-check into www.organizedchristmas.com. Every January they start with goals and ideas that help to make the holidays fun for you too!
Originally Posted By Pixie Glitter *walks into the empty room, starts a pot of coffee, arranges chairs in a circle, and then curls up in the corner in a fetal position, rocking back and forth, hoping some other hapless souls will join her soon.*
Originally Posted By Captain Jack Sparrow The Captain never worries as long as he has rum Pixie! Where's my barrels? To the ship!
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka OMG, I really need to move into here. I am SOOO behind. I have never been this behind. Ever. I've got to make a couple thousand sugar cookies today and I haven't even made the dough yet. (It has to chill before using.) My house looks like a tornado hit it. I haven't sent out any packages or cards and I still have most of my presents to buy. Oh man. I am in trouble!
Originally Posted By goodgirl "Let's cut way back on the gift spending," I insisted, knowing that several in the family are struggling financially. "Hmmm. I don't need to put out ALL the decorations. I'm always stuck putting them back after the holidays." "Let's keep the menu simple. Just the few favorites we love. That way there's not stress cooking up so much food." Okay. Now I'm feeling guilty. There's not much left to do. I keep thinking I'm forgetting something important. Christmas is next week!
Originally Posted By Blacksheep Uncle I just finished wrapping all my gifts... I've got nothing left to do but drive to my sisters house next weekend...it's good to be a man
Originally Posted By Mrs ElderP Pixie... I'm there with you. We have exactly 4 deccorations up in our house, and that's all that's going up before we leave next week for Christmas at my sisters' (unless our sp sends some). Today, the 17th, I am FINALLY doing our Christmas Baking, and tomorrow I will be writting all the cards, (insert whine here). It just hasn't helped that a cold has laid me low all this week, and then the car accident, and then life, and arrrggg....
Originally Posted By Blacksheep Uncle awww...here you go melepoiuytreka: <a href="http://webpages.charter.net/mransr/bb/PC120095.jpg" target="_blank">http://webpages.charter.net/mr ansr/bb/PC120095.jpg</a> Merry Christmas
Originally Posted By Pixie Glitter I'm about to share a tale that is a bit horrifying and graphic in nature. I ordinarily would not post this sort of thing on a family discussion board, but after careful consideration, I have decided to do so in the hope that it might be an attention-grabbing warning to others so that they can perhaps benefit from my experience and avoid this awful fate. ***Warning*** The following contains graphic descriptions. Those with a delicate constitution or weak stomach should use extreme caution in proceeding with reading this account. Due to my loathsome but sadly typical avoidance of Christmas preparations, today, December 17, 2005, only eight days before Christmas, on the LAST SHOPPING WEEKEND BEFORE CHRISTMAS (cue organ music in a minor key), I found myself embroiled in the following nightmarish situation. . . I had to go shopping for Christmas gifts. . . . accompanied by my children. (shrieking crescendo of organ music). We embarked on the following fiendish, multi-pronged mission: purchasing teacher gifts and various other sundries at Barnes and Noble, a complete circle tour of the very large Bed, Bath & Beyond in blind hope that inspiration for extended family stocking stuffers would strike, jostling through the elbow-to-elbow crowd of distinctly un-cheery people in the narrow card aisles of Hallmark, and (you should probably avert your eyes here) the annual trip to the little Glitters' Christmas shopping venue of choice--the Dollar Store. And did I mention that said mission was completed while I was in Day Two of a nasty cold? And without narcotics or sedatives of any kind? And without my co-pilot, Mr. Glitter, who was, of course, busy being yelled at by several hundred guests at The Cheesecake Factory? Needless to say, we barely escaped with our lives. But I am happy to report that we now have teacher gifts, individual Christmas cards for everyone in the extended family, a few assorted gifts for others, and gifts from the little Glitters to everyone in the family, including their grandma's new kitty and their uncle's dog. Ooooo, and the added bonus of a very cool gift from me for Mr. Glitter and even two gifts for the little Glitters which I managed, through great stealth and diversionary tactics, to purchase and hide in the car without their knowledge. If anyone needs me, I'll be in bed with the covers pulled over my head for the next fifteen hours.
Originally Posted By Mrs ElderP yay Pixie!! That is a terror filled experiance, but you made it through, and you're a better woman for us. What does not kill us makes us stronger?
Originally Posted By friendofdd Mrs Glitter, you did that on the seventeenth? What is the big rush, anyway?
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka Go to bed Dear Pixie. Rest well because tomorrow will be one more day closer to Xmas! Ugh, I still haven't done any shopping yet but I'm not too worried about that part of it. I'll just go out by myself and get it all done in an evening. I don't even care if anyone likes their presents this year so that's really easing the tension. Ha! So, it's 10:37 and I have yet to roll out any cookie dough. The dough is chilling in the fridge and I was about to start when one of my mild-mannered best friends called me to tell me she had finally had enough and she at long last, stood up for herself! For once in her life she didn't back down and cry! She fought back AND WON! Woohoo! So, that's why I have no cookies. I am going to be so strung out on sugar and caffeine at the party tomorrow. LOL
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka So, cookies are done. I didn't end up baking them, my husband and kids did. I get to be the lucky one who sifts 4 lbs of powdered sugar for the frosting. I just need to get through the party today and then the rest of Xmas will be easy!
