http://www.cherylontheweb.com/2006/11/14/making-christmas-lists-plural/ About the small things in life that seem oh so big Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:44:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 http://www.cherylontheweb.com/2006/11/14/making-christmas-lists-plural/#comment-2214 karyn Tue, 14 Nov 2006 23:33:34 +0000 http://www.cherylontheweb.com/2006/11/14/making-christmas-lists-plural/#comment-2214 Oh yes my dear. This will be our 3rd married christmas, although my help was required on list making well before we got married. Up until this year we had to come up with some fairly large - family specific (read: appropriate) - non-overlapping - affordable - easy to bring home in a suitcase (read: dvds and cds) - seperate lists. ugh. This year it will be quite a bit easier. My family has grown so much of late that we decided to forgo the sibling exchange we've been doing and just have everyone bring a game to play for our "Small" Family Christmas, then we need two exchange gifts for the big one - so no lists there, except for my mom and dad. His side, for which we have previously had to create a very large list, has decided to do the exchange thing among cousins, which helps a ton. Anyhow, for this year, I can't help much, but over the past several years I have started doing something that has helped populate birthday and christmas lists for myself and the hubby. I keep a couple files on my computer (which I have recently started using a website called Kaboodle to do this) and all year long when I see something I want (or he wants) that is something I can wait for... I add it to the list. Generally, as long as I don't go buy it myself, by the end of the year or at birthday time, there is at least the beginnings of a healthy list of things he or I actually want. It's worked for me. Good luck! Oh yes my dear. This will be our 3rd married christmas, although my help was required on list making well before we got married. Up until this year we had to come up with some fairly large - family specific (read: appropriate) - non-overlapping - affordable - easy to bring home in a suitcase (read: dvds and cds) - seperate lists. ugh. This year it will be quite a bit easier. My family has grown so much of late that we decided to forgo the sibling exchange we’ve been doing and just have everyone bring a game to play for our “Small” Family Christmas, then we need two exchange gifts for the big one - so no lists there, except for my mom and dad. His side, for which we have previously had to create a very large list, has decided to do the exchange thing among cousins, which helps a ton.
Anyhow, for this year, I can’t help much, but over the past several years I have started doing something that has helped populate birthday and christmas lists for myself and the hubby. I keep a couple files on my computer (which I have recently started using a website called Kaboodle to do this) and all year long when I see something I want (or he wants) that is something I can wait for… I add it to the list. Generally, as long as I don’t go buy it myself, by the end of the year or at birthday time, there is at least the beginnings of a healthy list of things he or I actually want. It’s worked for me. Good luck!

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