3 Months Until Christmas

Well, you have 3 months before Christmas is here...grab your notebook and lets get started in planning!  Everyone's situation is different and just because I talk about "Christmas", use the same thing for any of the holiday's you practice...I just know about this holiday, and mean absolutely no disrespect to anyone!  For me, I need to plan things out, in order to get more done! Time is also limited for me now, so I need to get done when I can!  So, lets get started planning things out a bit more than we did last month, and if you are just getting started with me, you can always check out this post, for what we did last month in order to catch up!

Today, we want to go more in to details and plan out some of those things we discussed last post!  We have 3 months to get stuff done - and honestly, if you work or procrastinate - that is not much time!  

• Start to work on the Christmas cards for those you are making by hand!  Check out your favorite inspirational site or magazine and narrow down what you are going to do!  If you mail cards out, name sure you look at that when you are designing your cards.  Decide how many you will need to make each week in order to get them done and in the mail in time!   
• Parties you are attending or giving...this list is such an important part of everything being able to plan out everything, and starting to purchase what is needed before hand!  Have a separate area in your kitchen if you need to, in order to not use the items before the time or event!  
• As you are planning out your parties, start to work on your baking list!!!  Look at what needs to be done, can you make anything before hand and freeze them?  Check out different recipe's and get things narrowed down!  
• Gift you are making - do you have your list ready?  Out of that, what do you have, and what do you need to purchase?  As you are looking at your list, look at your budget too...this is probably just as important as anything is!  
• What about decorations, are you making any ornaments or decorations this year?   What do you have, what do you need, what do is your budget here?   Start to work on things now - or purchase what you can at least!!!  
• The gifts you do purchase, how do you want to wrap them?  Look at different ideas, and start to figure out your own way to wrap the presents you do buy, such as the can in the picture above!  If you are like me and drink a lot of coffee, you can recycle your containers into unique gift containers and save money while you are at it!  

Before things get too crazy, and you are spending a bunch of time in getting a ton of things done, try to get stuff done earlier this year, in order to be able to have fun then!  I hope you will join me this year in getting things done this year!  You have a month to get this done, so start to planning!  

Thanks for stopping by,

Lynda Jeffs

Memories in Tyme