tips to get ready for xmas

Tips to get ready for xmas

The word Christmas comes from the old English Cristes maesse meaning Christs Mass.
31. Make a Christmas planner
First and foremost, everyone must make a Christmas playlist. When its snowing outside and everyone is sitting around the dinner table rolling out those pre-made, reindeer and Santa-shaped sugar cookies, listening to rap music or Britney Spears just does not have the same cheery effect. The best Christmas playlists include a variety of songs from different eras. Some basic suggestions: - Santa Baby by Madonna (a good pick if you can get past its creepiness) All I Want for Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey (my all-time favorite, judge all you like) You are A Mean One, Mr. Grinch by Thurl Ravenscroft (gotta get some movie soundtracks in there) Anything from Michael Bubles Christmas album (the mans got a Christmas voice) Notes, checklists and planner forms will help you get organized but only if you can find them! Solution? A simple three-ring binder creates a Christmas planner, a one-stop planning tool that will track and record holiday prep around the year.New Years' sales at the office supply store make it easy to set up a simple notebook as your Christmas planner. Click a set of dividers and a handful of page protectors into a good-sized binder. Add filled-in forms and lists, and as you see recipes, craft ideas, or decor inspiration, tear and tuck torn pages into page protectors.
32. Choose an organizing plan
Here at OrganizedChristmas.com, we know theres no one right way to get organized for next year's holiday season. Some folks love to think Christmas all year round, while others must be dragged, kicking and screaming, into the season late in the autumn. Thats why we offer different organizing plans to help everyone achieve the serene and stress free holiday of their dreams. Which one is right for you?
33. Buy/Build a gingerbread house
Pre-made cookies are not the only sugary good that define the Christmas season. Gingerbread houses also make for a fun family-bonding event. To clarify, I do not mean full-sized gingerbread houses. If you have the patience to attempt such a project and the self-control not to eat it along the way, then props to you, but I tend to go for the smaller, more manageable gingerbread structure. Even if the frosting does not mix right and the walls do not stay up for more than 2 seconds and in the end, you end up staring at a pile of gooey gingerbread panels that looks more like a stack of logs than an edible treat, you can say that you tried and thats all that matters.
34. Decorate Decorate everything
As much as I hate walking through the aisles of CVS in October and seeing decorations for holidays inappropriately far in advance, I believe its also important to stock up on these decorations for when the actual holiday rolls around. And do not limit yourself to decorating your house. Decorate cookies. Decorate the sidewalk with Christmas chalk drawings. Decorate your face with red and green makeup. Decorate your soul with the Christmas spirit.
35. Watch a Christmas special 10 or 100
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. How the Grinch Stole Christmas. A Christmas Story. A Charlie Brown Christmas. There are so many heart-warming Christmas movies out there, its hard to list them all. And do not even get me started on Elf. It would get its own number if I had room.
36. Create a gift list idea for other people
Receiving gifts on Christmas is only half the fun. The only thing better than the weeks leading up to Christmas is finding the perfect present for someone you love, whether its a gag gift or a serious item that they have been needing for awhile. Once you spot that antique typewriter that your hipster brother has been looking for, everything about life seems to fall into place.
37. Start a countdown
Countdowns can be a very powerful force in nature, if the New Years Eve ball drop tradition is any indication. They can both ease the mind (i.e. 10 more minutes until I can escape this English class on Medieval Dinner Plates) and incite anticipation (i.e. 2 more days until I can order my tickets for Lord of the Rings on ice). Advent calendars can also be an acceptable substitution for such events. A friend of a friend (definitely not me) mentioned that Neopets has a good advent calendar, but I do not know for sure.
38. Bust out the seasonal drinks and food
Nearly every respectable establishment offers some sort of special Christmas meal or drink. Mint hot chocolate. Pumpkin spice latte. EGGNOG. Then pair that with Christmas munchkins or candy canes and you have got yourself a meal.
39. Wear a Santa hat all day every day
Santa hats are like Ellen Degeneres. They make everything more fun. Quote me on that.
40. Volunteer to wrap presents and everything else
Present wrapping is a core part of the Christmas tradition, so volunteering to do it, either for charity purposes or to wrap your own, can get you in the holiday spirit. Wrap yourself in a sweater while wrapping a sandwich wrap and buying wrapping paper to wrap Christmas presents. Then when you are done, go to a wrap party that plays only rap music. Thats a wrap