Top tips for christmas!

[Blossom]

Thought I would share some of my top tips for making things a bit easier at christmas time.
If you have any ideas or tips feel free to post them and maybe we can all save a few pennies and have a nice relaxing holiday.

1. Make or buy a few 'extra' boxes of fudge or chocolates when your christmas shopping. Wrap them and sign them and leave them under the tree in case you have an unexpected visitor who gives you a gift that you feel compelled to return the favor too.

2. Make as much of the food before the actual day. Roast your meat the day before xmas and store in serving tray covered in gravy in the fridge, on the day you just pull out, reheat in oven and serve. Means more time for socialising and enjoying family and less time cooking.

3. Make sure you buy a couple extra rolls of wrapping paper and tags that are completely different from the rest of your wrapping paper to wrap the presents from Santa. Kids are smarter than when I was a kid I am sure of it.

4. Buy a multi box of mini cereals and juice, plastic spoons, bowls and small pottles of milk and errr, procure some sugar sachets. Put all these in the kids christmas stockings with a couple of small toys from the $2 shop and You get an extra 1hr sleep/cuddle time and they get a healthy breakfast. (our kids love this)

5. Buy cheap christmas crackers and carefully open one end and put in your own trinkets or toys (key rings, earrings, necklaces, $5 note etc). Still cheaper than the flash ones and yet get more decent stuff from them.

6. Got a big awkward present that wont fit under the tree? Hide it somewhere else. Do a treasure hunt with clues leading to the gift. Start it with a plain white envelope under the tree with the recipients name on it. (we are doing this with a trampoline this year)

7. Stop sorting laundry. Do all your laundry on one day. just do a load for each person. Cold wash so nothing runs. Hang it out the same way and you dont have to sort the dry washing. Each load for each person.

8. Buy extra milk and bread and toilet paper. You will run out. Freeze the milk and bread and thaw when needed. Saves the extra trip to the supermarket.


Well thats a few things we do anyway.. what does everyone else to do save money and time at this time of the year.

[Swoop]

Thought I would share some of my top tips...

I haven't received any form of request to perform a "TOP TIP" on this site. You will be hearing from my lawyers, forthwith.

7. Stop sorting laundry. Do all your laundry on one day. just do a load for each person. Cold wash so nothing runs. Hang it out the same way and you dont have to sort the dry washing. Each load for each person.

TOP TIP. LAUNDRY that requires "sorting" is evil. Racial harmony should begin in the washing machine.

. Buy extra milk and bread and toilet paper. You will run out. Freeze the milk and bread and thaw when needed.

TOP TIP. FREEZING your toilet paper will provide a soothing experience after visiting "Mr India" and experiencing his world famous vindaloo.

[Cajun]

cancling xmas saved lots of money.

not buying nothing for no one.
Not going to be in town. so no on can visit.

[nodrog:Me]

TOP TIP FOR XMAS. stay constantly on the booze from work knock off @ 12pm 23 of december, to at least 5am on the 25th. then sleep through all your annoying kids, visitors, and relatives. a splitting hangover is far less painfull.

[slofox]

Ride your bike to the top of some remote mountain. Find a cave to hole up in for a week. Stay there 'til Christmas has gone away.........

[vifferman]

Superduper Top Tip for Xmas: piss off overseas and leave the Mutant Spawn to fend for themselves.
It's a win-win: they are too far away to piss us off, and if they burn the house down or kill themselves/each other, it's an added bonus.

[Freakshow]

TOP TIP FOR XMAS. stay constantly on the booze from work knock off @ 12pm 23 of december, to at least 5am on the 25th. then sleep through all your annoying kids, visitors, and relatives. a splitting hangover is far less painfull.

Even better knock off work in an hour get on boozer and head away north to the Coro loop and don't go back until the last possible day!!

[Finn]

Come on guys, Christmas is a time for giving. However, I still haven't done any present shopping yet. Can't think of anything I really need.

[Beemer]

Come on guys, Christmas is a time for giving. However, I still haven't done any present shopping yet. Can't think of anything I really need.

I buy myself a present every year, that way I get at least one gift I really want! This year it was a bottle of 1999 vintage Perrier Jouet Belle Epoque champagne - the one with the enamelled flowers on the bottle. Saw it at Countdown for $209 and told the guy the last bottle I bought (admittedly about 20 years ago!) was $88 and joked I'd be back to buy it when it was on special. He laughed and said that wouldn't be likely, but guess what was on a clearance special for $94.99 last week? There is no way I would have paid the full whack for it, but saving $114 wasn't too bad!

Oh, and I would have given Blossom some rep for that post but I have to spread it around first!

[Blossom]

I haven't received any form of request to perform a "TOP TIP" on this site. You will be hearing from my lawyers, forthwith.

TOP TIP. LAUNDRY that requires "sorting" is evil. Racial harmony should begin in the washing machine.

TOP TIP. FREEZING your toilet paper will provide a soothing experience after visiting "Mr India" and experiencing his world famous vindaloo.

tehehe... +1
but seriously we dont have colours in our laundry just black and white.. errr...ebony and blanc?

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

cancling xmas saved lots of money.

not buying nothing for no one.
Not going to be in town. so no on can visit.

Due to the lack of interest Xmas has been cancelled

[Blossom]

Man you lot are all scroogies..
Tell ya what.. I have a lovely ham in the fridge, just made some gingerbread cookies and some russian fudge, the kids are out in the pool trying to drown themselves and In the fridge beside the steak for dinner is a couple of beers just waiting for the visitors.
Now play nice and you might get an invite.

[Fatt Max]

My personal tip for Christmas is always make sure I have a clothes peg for my nose.

You see, Christmas day is the only day of the year when my otherwise straight and narrow Gran lets herself go a wee bit amd has a couple of sherrys.

Unfortunatley she reacts rather bad to those and lets off huge stinky farts that are usually silent.....until about 6pm when she is a bit tiddly and then she dont care.

One liners like "Oi boys, sew a button on this one......pphhhrrrruuuppppp"

[Swoop]

Come on guys, Christmas is a time for giving. However, I still haven't done any present shopping yet. Can't think of anything I really need.

I think that we have all been given a nice present this year...

[Mrs Busa Pete]

Man you lot are all scroogies..
Tell ya what.. I have a lovely ham in the fridge, just made some gingerbread cookies and some russian fudge, the kids are out in the pool trying to drown themselves and In the fridge beside the steak for dinner is a couple of beers just waiting for the visitors.
Now play nice and you might get an invite.

Pick us pick us we love gingerbread cookies and russian fudge.. Oh and the beers not that bad either.



My top tip is go to daughters for christmas dinner that way you don't have to do the cooking or washing up.