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ArcticFox
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Who did the holiday prep?
ArcticFox
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Mostly the gifts - brainstorming, shopping, wrapping? And decorating? etc?
DH is always busy, so I do most of it. He puts up the outdoor lights on the house. But he can't for the life of him ever think of what to give people. I'm so over it.
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Re: Who did the holiday prep?
Hah.
This is why I did my "DH is a grinch" post a few weeks ago. He does nothing for Xmas. I do all the decorating (even the outdoor lights), the photos, the trees, the cards, the shopping, wrapping, drag all the kids to these holiday events 100% by myself.
To be fair to him it actually works well that he can be so lazy because I am a total control freak and would want it done exactly my way anyways.
Um yeah - I do everything. He did wrap his gifts to me - that I asked for specifically. He just has to worry about whether I packed him enough underwear.
But he paid for all the gifts..soo...I guess it's even?
I forgot about the holiday cards. Yup.. DH had nothing to do with those either. Took the pics for the photo card, forged his signature. Good stuff.
And Telyco - I make an Amazon wishlist for what I want b/c DH has no idea. He usually comes up with something great, but ohterwise he has no clue. Hints mean nothing.
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I bought 90% of the gifts. Although I have to admit for our secret santa family stuff he did pick out gifts for the people he chose (which made more sense since they are guys). One night we sat and wrapped our kids gifts. He wrapped one kid I wrapped the other, and then he did help out with a few others, but I again did most of it.
He definitely does the outside lights and helps decorate inside so I think I do more of the stressful part....brainstorming and shopping but he does contribute.
That's seriously how I think if it! I think you're 100% right. I love to shop for decor and the "perfect" gifts for everyone but my whopping $40 a week paycheck wouldn't have covered much
this is how I think about it (he does the outside lights though)
I do most of it, but DH does do the outside lights, and helps with decorating inside and picking out gifts. So I guess a lot of it is pretty equal.
Ha, I did it all and paid for it too. You guys are nuts though to think like that. "My" money that I make would be going towards daycare if he wasn't home with her.
I minimized anything I could this year without missing out on important things. We didn't do outdoor lights. I only unpacked about half the decorations. I also bought all gifts that I could either online or site-to-store thru Walmart before I went out of work. We didn't host any Christmas stuff either, thank goodness.
This. I did all the decorating, with him helping me outside. DH feel off a ladder when he was a kid and can't get back on one. So if I want lights on the house I am the one to climb the ladder. He helped pick out a tree and put it up. But I decorate the tree myself cause I am very picky with ornaments. He did go shopping with me and helped me come up with some ideas. And he stood in line Thanksgiving night at Toys R Us with me. I did all the wrapping because he sucks at wrapping.
mostly me... especially the shopping. He doesn't even give me input on what to get anyone in his family, so it was all gift cards!
He bought me lots of thoughtful gifts this year, and picked up a few things for Evan while he was out.
He hung the outdoor lights, helped w/ the tree, hung a few other indoor decor.
We drank wine and wrapped Evan's gifts together on Christmas Eve.
We also cooked 90% of Christmas dinner together (at my moms) He was in charge of the tenderloin roast and did lots of chopping. I made all the sides.
He is much more "into" Christmas now that Evan is old enough to be excited for it too.
DH does the outside lights. We put up the tree together. I do the lights and garland and we both do the ornaments. I decorate the rest of inside.
We both kind of come up with a list of gift ideas. We shop together for the kids, and then I shop for my parents and brother, he shops for his family. I wrap everything because he sucks at it!
He helps in his way on Christmas Day when we host. He keeps the kids (and relatives) out of my way while I cook! That is way more helpful than trying to direct him to help in the kitchen! And he is great about doing the cleanup. Dishes, garbage, etc. He'll do all of it.
I'd say we're pretty equal in the holiday stuff. DH does the outside lights, all of the wrapping, puts the lights on the tree, and even put up extra deocrations in the basement this year. He also does some of his own shopping, in stores and online. He cleaned the basement and I cleaned upstairs.
I did most of the deocrating inside, including putting the tree up, all of our Xmas cards, some shopping, and all of the grocery shopping and Xmas Eve dinner/Xmas breakfast prep.
We'll both have a hand in un-decorating and reorganizing the girls old & new toys.
I feel very lucky after reading these posts!
He does outdoor lights and sets up the tree.
I do all the gift shopping for EVERYONE. And all the wrapping. He gets toys put together.
I did all the holiday cards too, of course. UGH