For anyone who has been following my Christmas tips I have a final piece of advice if you wish to have a stress free and economical Christmas next year.....begin now!
It's not just a matter of buying a few cards and the odd roll of gift wrap in the sales it is a frame of mind, which should soon become second nature,try it this year and see what I mean.
There were many tips in my Christmas blogs and a re reading of those will tell you that a little forward planning does wonders and save a fortune, for instance,if you are going to make your own cards,gift tags or boxes for home made gifts begin now to store away any card, bits of ribbon or pretty string, suitable sized jars for preserves or sweet. Small scraps of fabric or old clothes which could be cut up to make jam jar covers or decorate cards.
By the summer when the jams are to be made you will have all you need to make your preserve jars into pretty gifts. If you are lucky and have fruit bushes in the garden or live where blackberries and elderberries,crab apple and bullace,rose hips or Rowan live you will have only to buy the sugar to make your preserves By the time the pickling season ends in October you will have shelves full of gorgeous produce for yourself and your friends.
If you can keep a small corner of your mind on the matter throughout the year,picking up bargains whenever you see them in shops of church bazaars,car boot sales and so on you will soon have quite a collection of small gifts for friends and relations, not to mention stocking fillers for the children.
I apologise if this sounds like stating the obvious but in times such as these when money is not plentiful we still want to give our families the very best and planning in this way spreads what cash there is much further,it is fun to watch the cupboards filling up with goodies and satisfying to know that you are storing up treasures for Christmas time,for both family and friends.
Above all have fun,involve the family in fruit picking,label and lid cover making,that way you will keep the fun and the spirit of Christmas in your family all the year round. Corny,yes but true.
And now in the words of Tiny Tim “God bless us,everyone.”
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