How Can You Make Next Christmas Better?
It’s December 31st and the dust from the holiday season is starting to settle. All the rushing and running around, endless shopping, stress, gifts, parties, wrapping paper, crafts and decorations are ready to be bundled up and put away until next December.
I’m hoping that each one of your had a lovely Christmas surrounded by loved ones. But I have a question for you…
How Can You Make Next Christmas Better?
Will you save more throughout the year?
Start Christmas shopping earlier?
Send out Christmas cards?
Spend more time with your family?
Spend less money on gifts?
Make more homemade gifts?
Bake more Christmas goodies?
Help out a struggling family with Christmas?
Donate more toys?
Invite more people into your home?
Volunteer your time?
The answers will be different for everybody, but I’m pretty sure that 99.9% of us would have done something different for Christmas if we had the chance.
So why not start planning for next Christmas now?
Tomorrow is January 1st and the countdown for Christmas 2013 will begin which means there’s no better time to get started.
If we start now, we will have almost a whole year to plan better, save more & help more people next Christmas.
The one thing that I wish I had been able to do this past Christmas is help more people. I saw many comments on giveaways this past month from people who were struggling and not sure how they were going to make Christmas happen for their family.
The Christmas Project
They say there’s no better way to reach your goals than to start by writing them down. So here’s what I plan to do next Christmas.
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Have all my Christmas shopping done by November 30th.
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Spend more time with family during the holidays.
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Collect & donate 100 toys to local children.
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Raise $1000 to be given to local & online struggling families through gift cards.
To be honest, some of these goals scare me a little bit, but that’s okay. If your goals don’t scare you, they’re probably not worth reaching anyway, right?
Now It’s Your Turn
I’ll share more about how I plan to reach these goals in future posts, but for now I’d like to ask you to do two things.
1. Figure out what you would like to do next Christmas - big or small - and let me know by leaving a comment below.
2. Sign up for The Christmas Project free weekly newsletter to receive helpful tips that you can use for planning your next Christmas plus updates on my progress.
I can’t wait to see what we can make happen next Christmas by working together!
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Categories: The Christmas Project
save money and spend more time with my aunt and little cousins in South Carolina and Virginia
I could prepare better for Christmas 2013 by starting to shop earlier.
Our Christmas doesn’t need any better, we keep it in perspective……….it’s all about the birth of Jesus and not who buys the better gift.
Plan ahead.
spend more time with family 🙂
i can start shopping earlier lol 🙂
Save money by shopping at sales. Start decorating earlier as I have a lot of Christmas decorations.
This year was tight as far as gifts go due to job loss… BUT, the upside is that I actually got to enjoy my family this year…instead of always being at work(70+hours a week during the holidays)…and honestly, that meant more to me than gifts that just get shoved aside. Everyone got the one thing they really wanted, and a few smaller items, and they were all great with it… ( I was a sales manager at an office supply chain, but lost my job due to downsizing…I’d been there for 7 years, but was the last manager hired, so the first to go…) 2011 saw me buying laptops and Kindle fires… this year…WAYYYYY less..yet, we spent more time together…and the kids really seemed to like that. I know I did. I don’t know that I would change a thing 🙂
spend it with my other family, that my husband, myself and our children haven’t seen in a few years…:)