Planning for Christmas
This is the month where I start planning for Christmas and start getting the pantry, jam store,freezers and bottled produce sorted so as to enable a reasonable choice of things to use come Christmas. I have found that buying a little bit at a time is a much gentler shock to the purse rather than having to buy everything in the month of December. This year I have done a lot of things, but not nearly as much as I would have liked to, but that's this year next year is going to be different. There is an old adage "Never put off what you can do today until tomorrow" which speaks for itself. If you have the planning structure sorted, i.e. what you want by way of bottled preserves, jams, pickles, frozen goods,liqueurs,wines etc all you have to do is make them and the sooner you make them the sooner you can forget about them. This strategy works for home made presents as well. It can make the difference between living to a mediocre standard or living extremely well. Even if ...