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Post by amandad74 on Dec 1, 2014 13:41:40 GMT
He is in charge of buying for his side of the family, cooking the dinner when it is our turn to host. He also does buy a lot of things online and wraps those gifts himself.
Other than that, I do it all. Outside lights, inside decorations, trees, cards, half of thr presnts, taking it all down...
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Post by Ramona on Dec 1, 2014 13:49:04 GMT
He's in charge of earning the majority of the money to pay for it all. He also does the buying of the tree...and doing outside lights, getting decorations down from the loft and adding food items to the shopping list  He works ridiculously long hours and I work part time so it's fine with me that I do the majority. This is our family, too. He did string a few lights outside for years, until the evergreen trees grew up! Sadly, he has missed a lot of Christmas time with us. He works a lot! Now he just doesn't participate. When the grandkids are here to open presents, he is too concerned about picking up the Christmas wrap, than to intermingle with the kids. I make up for it!!! I love to give presents!!! |
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Post by ~Susan~ on Dec 1, 2014 14:38:02 GMT
For some weird reason my DH loves to drag down the Xmas tree, put it together, fluff it and put on the lights. He acts like it is no big deal. He really doesn't like to hang the ornaments (or so he says). I think he knows how much that means to me and just lets me and the girls do our thing. He will pretty much do anything I ask him to do. He even does some cooking and baking now. He is turning out to be quite the chef. He is also fantastic at wrapping presents. He is a really good elf  |
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Post by mjmone on Dec 1, 2014 15:01:12 GMT
dh is also in charge of buying for his parents and brother, as I don't have a clue. He will also help bring my Christmas decor in from the garage, and when we host, he usually cooks the turkey in the outside grill. Other than that, it all falls on me. And I kinda like it that way
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2014 15:14:58 GMT
My DH is in charge of listening for me to say, "DH, can you come and do xxxx?" He will do anything I ask but I do not leave him to planning or organizing anything. That's my area.  |
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Post by lbp on Dec 1, 2014 15:15:51 GMT
ZERO! My husband does not do anything to help for the holidays. He used to do the outdoor decorations, but he refuses to do them now. He does buy me something for Christmas but I have to make a list and he picks from it and I am fine with that. He just doesn't think decorating or doing anything special for the holidays is important and I think that is in part because of the way he was raised. Some years they didn't even get a tree and his mom would take them to the store the day before and tell them to pick out a toy.
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Post by grinningcat on Dec 1, 2014 15:26:31 GMT
ZERO! My husband does not do anything to help for the holidays. He used to do the outdoor decorations, but he refuses to do them now. He does buy me something for Christmas but I have to make a list and he picks from it and I am fine with that. He just doesn't think decorating or doing anything special for the holidays is important and I think that is in part because of the way he was raised. Some years they didn't even get a tree and his mom would take them to the store the day before and tell them to pick out a toy.
Wow. That really sucks. Your DH really lost out and it's sad that it translated to continuing that in adulthood. |
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Post by likescarrots on Dec 1, 2014 20:26:18 GMT
ZERO! My husband does not do anything to help for the holidays. He used to do the outdoor decorations, but he refuses to do them now. He does buy me something for Christmas but I have to make a list and he picks from it and I am fine with that. He just doesn't think decorating or doing anything special for the holidays is important and I think that is in part because of the way he was raised. Some years they didn't even get a tree and his mom would take them to the store the day before and tell them to pick out a toy.
Wow. That really sucks. Your DH really lost out and it's sad that it translated to continuing that in adulthood. Why is it sad? Some people just aren't into it. Neither me or my husband are interested in Christmas, so our 'division of labor' consists of me buying my side presents and him buying his mom a present. We also usually buy each other some stuff, but our birthdays are Xmas eve and Xmas day so they are more birthday presents. |
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Post by Jili on Dec 1, 2014 21:50:10 GMT
I'm pretty Grinchy, so he does quite a bit. He puts up outdoor lights (I don't care if we have them or not), and basically puts out decorations and gets the trees in the stand and the lights on them. We all help to decorate them. We collaborate on shopping, and he does most of the wrapping because I detest it and he's really good at it. He even helps bake, too-- but we don't do a ton of that.
If there's cooking involved, I do it because I enjoy it.
We really don't send cards anymore, but when we did, it was a team effort. There were a few years where he did the bulk of it.
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Post by myboysnme on Dec 1, 2014 22:47:24 GMT
DH brings in the boxes and puts them back at the end of the season. He puts up the tree and the outside lights and takes them down. He makes Christmas Eve dinner.
I decorate the tree and house, buy and wrap gifts, write Christmas letter, sign and send cards, send gifts to friends, cook Christmas dinner, take down and put away all the decorations.
We don't do much else to celebrate.
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Post by shannoots on Dec 1, 2014 22:49:25 GMT
We put the tree up/decorate it as a family. My husband and I do most of the shopping together. He is off for about 3 weeks at the end of the year and I'm home so we spend that time shopping together (not all of it). It is a fun tradition that we both look forward to every year.
It makes me sad that so many people have stopped sending out Christmas cards. It's one of my favorite things every year (sending and receiving). I do those but my husband does help pick out a card if I'm torn between a few.
I am solely in charge of the teacher's gifts...if it were up to my husband, we would not give any. Other than that, I think we're pretty even where the holidays are concerned.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2014 22:55:08 GMT
He buys for his parents. If I procrastinate, it's Christmas Eve and no presents are wrapped, he helps me. I despise wrapping, so he usually helps.
I don't enjoy going all out with decorating, don't do Christmas cards, easy Christmas dinner, and keep it fairly simple so there's not much for him to do.
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Post by canadianscrappergirl on Dec 2, 2014 0:04:11 GMT
For the first 10 or so years I did it all other then the lights on the tree, but I think hubby started to realize all the stuff that was involved in making Christmas special and started helping more.
The past few years he has helped me with the baking(which I could care a less about but I know him and the kids love it)
He helps me make the appetizers for Christmas Eve (this year he says lets skip all the fuss and muss and only do a couple instead of the ton we usually do)
He started actually doing some of the shopping several years ago which is a great help before I did it all.
He puts the tree up and the lights on, the rest is up to me but that is how I like it lol.
He helps with the wrapping, prep of Christmas dinner, and probably some other things I am forgetting so I am grateful!
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Post by canadianscrappergirl on Dec 2, 2014 0:06:25 GMT
My dh helps with the tree and outdoor decorations, but other than that it is all me until Santa duty on Christmas Eve. I do the shopping, choosing, wrapping, cooking, baking, etc... This year I decided I am no longer sending Christmas cards. I don't enjoy it, we get very few in return, and I'm just going to let it go. Dh did not like this at all. I told him to get over it or do it himself. As of yet he has not done it. So, what is your dh/so in charge of for the holidays? My hubby was all about the Christmas cards too for years and I begrudgingly did it, but quite a few years ago I said look most of these cards are for your family and friends so how about you do them, he did it for hmm 2 yrs and that was the end of that lol. |
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