Organise your Christmas: Shopping Tips

There are only 7 sleeps until Christmas! Can you believe it!? I have been thinking about Christmas for the past two months and it still seems to have crept up on me!

This is the first year since we have been together that Aaron and I are doing the bulk of our Christmas shopping the week before Christmas day! We are ordinarily done by October.
Needless to say we need some serious time management to ensure the next week isn't spent having mental breakdowns, biffs in the shopping centre and takeaway for dinner all week!!!

So over the next few days I am going to share some tips on how to keep your sanity and have an organised Christmas in 2013

Just like Santa, make your list and check it twice. Check that everyone has been included, naughty and nice! Add what you still need to buy to your list and add some small gifts for those unexpected guests this Christmas. You will be the most organised and considerate host on the block!

Check out these cheap and easy DIY gifts for any +1's on Christmas Day!

If you are going shopping this week make sure you add wrapping and gift tags to your list! You never want to run out of these things while you are in the present wrapping zone. I like to buy my wrapping and tags cheap after Christmas and keep it in one of these.

 My first tip is to make the list, but it is no good if you leave it behind! I am deadly serious when I say DO NOT go to the shops without a list. Seriously. If you go to the shops with no direction and no purpose you will be lost in the abyss of Christmas carols and marked up products on "Sale".

What are your tips on how to survive Christmas Shopping?

Organise your Christmas Series

Day1: Shopping Tips

Day2: Present Wrapping

Day3: Food

Day4: House Cleaning

Day5: Christmas Guests

Day6: Relax!

Today I am linking up at the All Things Christmas Linky Party