Surely I am not the only Christmas slacker...

I'm in the middle. Everything is purchased. The tree is up.

But, my house is a disaster area. I have packages everywhere needing to be wrapped. Our son and grandkids will be here for a week, so I have to figure out food. I have a small tree for the kids bedroom that isn't up yet.

The only thing DH has to do is the Christmas cards. It's 9 days away and he hasn't started them. He's freaking retired! I'm not saying a word...

I don't have anything up around the house yet either. But I did get the tree yesterday. It is sitting outside until we decide when to put it up. I have to rearrange the living room in order to put it up which means taking the piano and putting it in the kitchen or hall. It is a pain so I don't have the tree up very long.

When my mom was growing up, the tree was actually one of their presents. Her parents would work Christmas Eve (they had their own business), then once the kids were in bed they would decorate the tree. The kids would see it in the morning with the presents underneath. When I was little, we used to put our tree up before Christmas but we couldn't convince my mom to put it up more than a few days before Christmas.

However I think I have the majority of gifts except for my oldest. He is hard because he flies here and back to Nova Scotia and can't take a lot of things back with him on the plane.

I have also been sick this past week and it hasn't gotten better yet so I am not really feeling up to doing much.

Not a shred of Christmas decoration in my house (unless you count the two rolls Of wrapping paper in the corner ). Dh wanted a real tree this year but our schedules haven’t allowed for going to get one. Yesterday I finally said there will be a tree in the living room today, I don’t care if it’s a damn Apple tree, a tree will be there. So this afternoon we’re getting the fake one out of the attic . Most of the shopping is done though, none of the wrapping of course.

The tree is up and decorated, inside is decorated, gifts are bought but not yet wrapped and I thought I was pretty much done. 

Until I thought I had better check what exactly I had bought and what was still needed. Well I have a list as long as my arm (not quite, but it is quite a list) to 'finish' things off and I still have some food shopping as well. 

A busy week coming up - having the grandies (10, 8 and 3) a couple of days and another day DH wants to go shopping as well. I know it will all be worth it but we have to get through it all first LOL

Not a stitch of decorating done and I don't plan to decorate since I'll be gone for Christmas. I had unexpected company week before last and am super busy at work this time of year. Just didn't have the energy to get it done earlier and now it seems pointless because it will be time to take it down about the time I get it up!
About half my gifts are bought and sitting in a box in the living room waiting to be wrapped. The other half are going to be gift cards. I need to go buy them and get them in the mail. I'm not too worried if they arrive before or after Christmas.

I've been sick since right after Thanksgiving, yesterday was my first somewhat good day - today I feel really good. Needless to say I am behind, tree is not up shopping is not done, and wrapping is not done.

BUT - I do have a plan so I'm trying not to panic.

Scoot over on this bench because I am right there with you. No decorating done, not even a wreath on the door. We don't usually put up a tree because we always celebrate Christmas at my parent's house. One day though I'd like to get a really nice fake (gasp!) tree that looks real. Never thought I'd ever say that. I always preferred real trees. I'm in the middle of making my Christmas cards, mostly because I have a nasty sinus infection that has me so congested and tired that I don't feel like doing anything. My plan is to get them finished this weekend and in the mail on Monday. 

I saw my ENT doctor this week and he wants to schedule me for sinus surgery after the holidays. This new infection came after a cold during Thanksgiving but is just another addition to the same sinus infection I've had for two years. This is the same ENT doctor who also had a sinus infection for two years but he's had his surgery since I last saw him. He said it wasn't bad at all. 

I have completed all of my shopping, thanks to online shopping this year. Made it so much easier. I got 2 great rolls of heavy weight wrapping paper from Hallmark leaning in the corner (buy one roll, get the next 50% off) and this year I'm going to take it easy and skip the ribbon I usually use. I'm pretty sure I have a fake Christmas wreath in the garage I can pull out and stick on the door. 

For all who are on this thread, take it easy and don't stress out. Enjoy the holidays. It's no fun if you stress over everything. 

I haven't even thought about Christmas yet! Well, I have, but only in the context of "I can't even think about Christmas until after the wedding." DD is getting married THIS Monday (yes, in two days), so all energy has been directed at that. I can come up for air on Tuesday, when the wave of "OMG Christmas is less than a week away" will hit.

I didn’t decorate at all. Not even a tree( though I wouldn’t have done it until this weekend anyway ) just my snowmen are out. I don’t really want to do a tree. It just st seems like too much work.

But I’m done shopping and I’ve even wrapped
I’m only half a slacker

I'm not really a slacker, it's more that I don't do too much to begin with. There's a wreath on the door, and the tree is up. But beyond that, I just have one small box of decorations. Hopefully I'll finish today. I ordered most stuff online, but haven't wrapped a thing.
Once the kids come home, they can do the wrapping and finish my shopping for me (they love the mall). We'll probably bake something this week, but I'm not sure what. Christmas decorations are fairly low key around here.
lisacharlotte That's how my family was, the tree went up the week of Christmas and down on the 27th. Our fake tree goes up Thanksgiving weekend, when the kids are home to carry and assemble it. It goes down after DS's birthday on Jan 9, he always begged to leave it up so we did. It's such a pain, I figure that I want it up as long as possible to get every smidgen of enjoyment out of it.
whipea You really don't sound like a slacker to me, your life sounds exhausting! Good luck with the sale and the move.

My tree is up and presents are finally wrapped, but no decorations and not going to be. I stopped that a few years ago because I didn't want to have to pack it all away - the tree is bad enough! My chore for today is to get what food I can at grocery that won't spoil. I ALWAYS have to make that last minute trip on Christmas Eve day-never fails. You should put your elf to work when he gets home!

This is where I'm at, too. And add in DS1 has the flu. 😳

We need groceries, but I'm putting it off a day and I'm going to deep clean / sanitize the hell outta our house today then go grocery shopping tomorrow. Hopefully I'll have time to wrap gifts somewhere in between.

We were going to take our Christmas card photo today, but that's not happening. Cards might be out this year.

To top it off, DH has decided that this is the perfect time to build a fence and put up a gate on the front of our property. I want the gate, but really, NOW?!

Oh, and I have to four dozen cookies to make for our employee goodie bags we do every year. My sister and mom make peanut brittle and fudge. I don't know about the cookies. I really don't want to spread the flu! Might have to go to my moms and make them one evening! Ugh!

I'm a slacker.