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Christmas Statistics

Here's a breakdown of my holiday shopping, decorating, baking, etc:

Gifts:
My parents - completed
My brother and his wife - completed
My brother and his wife's unborn baby - completed

My husband's parents - half completed
My husband's second set of parents - half completed
My husband's brother and wife - completed
Our nephew - completed and bonus...left gift in Sanger for Grandma to wrap!

Other gifts for husband's family - about 90% completed

Gifts for co-workers - haven't started

Gifts for friends - haven't started

Gifts for vendors - haven't started

Gifts for Dog - 80% but lets face it this is never done because I keep finding things to add

Gifts for hubby - haven't started. Need to loose the hubby so I can go buy him something fun.

Gifts for me 100% - For every gift I mentioned above I think I have bought myself a gift or something to decorate the house with. hehehe

60% of my presents are bought - 40% yet to be purchased

70% of the presents that are bought are now wrapped

35% of those presents wrapped are now ready to be shipped

Holiday Tree - needs to be bought 6% completed. We talked about getting one this morning. The decorations have been pulled out of the garage.

Holiday cookies - needs to be baked but this project is about 5% complete cuz I have the recipes ready.

Holiday Cards - about 75% done. Cards are printed, labeled, stamped but need some addresses and need to cross reference Christmas Card List to make sure I got everyone.

Holiday Outdoor Lights - We thought we were 100% percent done but we inherited some more lights! Which is awesome cause now we can give our two Griswald neighbors who have a plethera of lights a run for their money.

Holiday Indoor Decoration - about 75% completed. I am still buying cute stuff to make my home every bit as Norman Rockwell as I can make it. I just bought Christmas bath towels today. Yes, I am crazy.

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