Second Week November Holiday To-Do List

I’m sharing my own to-do list for the week. I’ve tried to divide Thanksgiving and Christmas related tasks into a few for each week in order to take the last-minute stress out of things.

Need to catch up? Here is the First Week List.

1. Do you send a Christmas letter? If so, hop on the computer and write it. Grab some paper and print out copies. You don’t need any fancy stationary. Just use one of these FREE Christmas paper templates. Set the printed copies aside to stuff in the envelopes another day.

2. Polish the silver. Don’t tell me you don’t need to! Even if yours is fairly protected, I bet those fork tine tips are black. Perhaps you better go and check. I do a quick polish on a few piece in my china cabinet that are for show since we’ll be entertaining in there as well as checking the flatware.  I LOVE my silver cleaning metal plate. I put it in the sink and follow the directions, adding washing soda. I dip in my pieces and they are safely clean in a jiffy.

3. Clean your oven. You have a self-cleaning oven, you say. Good for you! Now go turn it on! Whatever your method, you do need to clean it as you’ll use the oven more than ever this season. The baked on crud in the bottom of the oven does not smell great. No point in cleaning the house for the holidays and then treating guests to a whiff of that.

4. Make a menu and a grocery list that can take you up to about the 23rd of November. This way you can concentrate on other things on this to-do list.

5. Do the above grocery shopping.

6. Get out your Christmas wrapping paper, bags, boxes, tissue, bows, ribbon, cards, tags and tape.  See if you need to buy anything.

7. Set up a place to wrap gifts. Start wrapping anything you have already bought. Once you catch up, continue to wrap as you buy. Here is a video by Good Housekeeping on a Christmas Wrapping Station.

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