Countdown To Christmas

Toyboyroy

Toyboyroy

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79 Days and counting http://www.xmasclock.com/

Feeling a bit bored today so I decided to get my Christmas cards written out of the way.

92 cards later I ran out and need to buy another 4 more tomorrow to complete my list.

Next week myself and her indoors are off for a few days break down the coast and when we get back I will start getting the presents in.


How organised are you.

Roy
 

Toyboyroy, I know you aren't talking to me. I haven't mailed my Christmas cards from last Christmas. :rofl: Just kidding.
 
Toyboyroy said:
79 Days and counting http://www.xmasclock.com/

Feeling a bit bored today so I decided to get my Christmas cards written out of the way.

92 cards later I ran out and need to buy another 4 more tomorrow to complete my list.

Next week myself and her indoors are off for a few days break down the coast and when we get back I will start getting the presents in.


How organised are you.

Roy
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Oh my goodness, 92 cards!!! What does postage cost you folks? And so many! You are so patient and organized!

I don't send out cards anymore so I can't relate at all. Well Merry Christmas Toyboyroy!
 
Thank you so much for that reminder there Toyboyroy.This was very kind of you.:D
I really needed to know that!:playful:

But seeing as now I know, I wanted to be the very first here to say...

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to all senior forum members and guests.:cool:
 
No, No, No. I refuse to even think about Christmas, Santa, elves, snow, ice & cold before Halloween. Unh unh. No way!! I'm still in shock from temps going from 81 to 41 in 4 days.
 
chic said:
No, No, No. I refuse to even think about Christmas, Santa, elves, snow, ice & cold before Halloween. Unh unh. No way!! I'm still in shock from temps going from 81 to 41 in 4 days.
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Our temps took a sudden nosedive here, too. In the early AM when I walk my dog, I've been having to put on long pants and a jacket. Last week it was hot and I was plotting routes to walk where we could stay in the shade most of the time! Bit of a shock to the system.
 
Don't do so many cards anymore but collect presents year round. A good price and something special and everything goes in a big box. Something I'm getting started on is aprons. The store I work for lets us be creative with our work aprons. A year or more ago someone saw mine and requested one for herself...then her friend...then a friend's friend then...So I do them six at a time by department so I can keep people straight. I'm looking at maybe 40-60 by December. It's just acrylic paint, permanent marker, glitter and imagination but it makes people happy. Even did the Princeton Tiger for the store manager.
 
I send out less than a dozen cards each year, and only do it soon enough for them to arrive on time. I really hate all the Christmas business starting already in the stores, to me it's overkill just for companies to make a profit. They start advertising the holidays so early, that by the time the actual day comes, it feels like it's come and gone already. Liked it better back in the day when I was a kid, and each holiday was separate and not overdone.
 
Butterfly said:
Our temps took a sudden nosedive here, too. In the early AM when I walk my dog, I've been having to put on long pants and a jacket. Last week it was hot and I was plotting routes to walk where we could stay in the shade most of the time! Bit of a shock to the system.
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It's tough isn't it. I've gone from sandals and camis to heavy jackets, jeans and knee sox. Too fast for the body to adjust easily.

It's nice for people who really enjoy Christmas to begin to look forward to it already, but winter just isn't my favorite season. I equate it with snow and crowded shopping malls and hurriedly trying to find gifts for everyone.
 
SeaBreeze said:
I send out less than a dozen cards each year, and only do it soon enough for them to arrive on time. I really hate all the Christmas business starting already in the stores, to me it's overkill just for companies to make a profit. They start advertising the holidays so early, that by the time the actual day comes, it feels like it's come and gone already. Liked it better back in the day when I was a kid, and each holiday was separate and not overdone.
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My thoughts exactly SB...couldn't agree more!
 
I saw xmas stuff in the stores in Michigan in the middle of Sept! But then I don't moan about it any more like I used to knowing I'd have to figure out what to give who.

We stopped going to Michigan to see my family for xmas 3 years ago and go in summer instead. So this means the only people I give xmas gifts to is my son and grandkids, and husband's daughter and her family in Scotland. Last year I took the easy way out and sent a check to my son in an xmas card and told him to get a family gift or individual gifts or gift cards for everyone. They got a family gift and everybody was happy. Doing the same this year.

I have about 20 people on my xmas card list. Last year I mailed them the end of November just before we left for Thailand. Some were confused as to why I sent them so early. This year I'm going to send postcards from Thailand as soon as we arrive and wish people Merry xmas or Happy Holidays or whatever. And I will come home to a batch of xmas cards when we return home the 1st of March. ;)
 
Debby said:
Oh my goodness, 92 cards!!! What does postage cost you folks? And so many! You are so patient and organized!

I don't send out cards anymore so I can't relate at all. Well Merry Christmas Toyboyroy!
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Postage on my cards don`t really add up to much as 90% of them are hand delivered. The wife and I come from large families and there are neighbours and former work colleagues of the wifes` that's why we write close to a 100 cards.

Incidentally, I said that we will start getting the presents in after we come back from our break, her indoors had different ideas about that and she dragged me around the shops today where we covered most of it.

Roy
 
No thoughts of Christmas as yet, but in November I shall start buying cards and presents and putting them away.I send neighbours cards , about ten, so no mailing costs, give cards to our family who all live nearby, and mail about twenty cards to friends/ other family members who live elsewhere in the country.Presents are bought for our children/ grandchildren only.
will bring out the same tree and ornaments we bought a few years ago, so no costs there.We don't do any outside lights at all
it's not so common over here to do that, but we buy a fresh Christmas wreath for the door each year.
 

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