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Crazy for Christmas Challenge: October

Christmas, Crazy for ChristmasAmy WileyComment

Fire up the Christmas music and top off your hot chocolate because it’s Crazy for Christmas Challenge time! Make sure your Santa hat is on tightly, because we are knocking out many things on our lists.

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Get this beautiful Christmas journal designed by my talented friend here. This nutcracker version is also gorgeous. Now for this month’s tasks…

Christmas Cards

If you have your family photos ready to go, it’s time to order those Christmas cards! I personally love this service. Choose from the most gorgeous cards, and for $38 you get deep discounts (it pays for itself) and a beautiful box of paper goods (cards, gift wrap, and more) valued at $160. I highly recommend you join here. You can even upload your address list and your cards will arrive beautifully addressed. This service saves me so much time.

Another task to complete today is to order your Christmas stamps. Shipping is quick and inexpensive. Not going to the post office? Priceless. Get your stamps now while all the holiday designs are available.

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Christmas Pajamas

What’s the Christmas season without cozy, festive pajamas? Be the cutest family by the fire by ordering pajamas now. I’ve scoured the stores rounded up my favorite picks available this year for all ages. It’s a darling way to get in the spirit of the season. Click the photo to shop these styles and more.

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Schedule Decorating and Wrapping

Now for the really fun stuff! Get out your calendar and decide when you want to do all that decorating and wrapping. You might block out a weekend to decorate your home and a night for wrapping your gifts. You could also plan that for a week you’ll wrap each night while watching Christmas movies. Just pencil it in so you know when it will get done. I also suggest setting up a wrapping “station” with everything you’ll need before you get started.

Advent Calendars

If you are going to treat yourself and/or your family with advent calendars, I’ve rounded up a massive list of options. Santa already sent me this one… I did last year’s version and it was such a treat! On the last night of November I’ll give each person in my household an advent calendar full of little treasures to enjoy each day in December. If you’re looking for ideas, look no further! My list has them all… from budget-friendly to luxury options. Click the photo to shop these and more.

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This month’s free printable is a set of tags to add to your advent calendars. Make giving them an event! Join the email list to get these tags.

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Gift Shopping

As always, hunt for a few more gifts to add to your stash. Doesn’t it feel great to have so many of these set aside already? It’s an “add to cart” kind of day!

Thank you for following along and getting Crazy for Christmas with me. If you want to catch up on previous challenges, here they are:

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

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