Preventing Holiday Stress: Holiday To-Do List
As I see it, there are two ways to reduce holiday stress:
- Lower our expectations–literally cross off the number of things on our to-do list.
- Get started earlier.
My personal preference is a combination of both these strategies. Here’s what I want to accomplish this year:
Make holiday cards like last year.
- I need to draft the text for our holiday cards.
- Ask Matt to select the photos for our holiday card.
- Get the card designed.
- Get the card printed.
- Pick up stamps.
- Get updated addresses from my friends and family.
- Stuff all the envelopes.
- And send!
Purchase all my gifts and get them wrapped before Thanksgiving.
- Make a list of everyone we need to get gifts for.
- Brainstorm ideas.
- Make purchases.
- Figure out what we are going to do for wrapping paper this year.
- Wrap our gifts!
- Make gift tags.
Decide which gifts I’m going to make.
- Make a list.
- Brainstorm ideas.
- Get supplies.
- Make the gifts!
Get Matt’s birthday present (end of November).
- Luckily I collect ideas all year.
- Purchase gift.
We’ll see which of these things I get started on versus which things just get crossed off the list!