Create an Organized Christmas List for What You Want
Now is the time to create a Christmas list for what you want for yourself.
It is the weekend before Thanksgiving as I write this and I am going to my parents home for Thanksgiving dinner.
The talk will eventually get to what we want for Christmas.
This goes on at every family across the world.
People want to know what you would like for Christmas.
With that information they can go shopping with those ideas in mind rather than having no clue.
Most of the time, when asked, "what do you want for Christmas?" you will say, oh I don't need anything, I am fine, I have everything I need, whatever you want to get is fine.
This is not the right answer.
This is not helping the person who asks at all.
Instead of making their gift buying easier by getting something you really want or could really use or really need, they have to spend a bunch of time thinking about what you would like and then a lot of time in the stores looking at all kinds of things trying to decide.
Why put people through all that stress? Why not just give them a short Christmas list of the things that you really want, or that you really need? This way everyone is happy.
They get the less stressful holiday shopping for you.
Instead of combing through the stores and trying to remember what you have and don't have, they just go out and get what you said.
You get something that you really want or need that was on your list.
You both win.
I just made out my Christmas list.
Here it is to give you an idea: 1) 2 matching floor mats for my kitchen.
One mat for the sink and one mat for in front of the patio door.
2) Flatware, set of 8.
I have plenty but they are old, non matching and stained.
3) Set of pots and pans, especially a flat pan.
I had to throw out my flat pan, it was ruined, and the others are scratched.
4) Digital camera.
Just a small, inexpensive one is fine.
5) Outdoor mat for wiping feet in front of my door.
6) 2 electrical power sticks.
7) Rectangular baking pan.
8) Pizza pan for the oven.
9) Multivitamins.
This is just a simple list that anyone could shop for me.
Each item will not cost that much.
These are all things from my master lists that I really want.
I created my master lists from the principles I learned in How to Reboot your Brain by John Reese.
This method of listing ALL of what you want to buy, have and do is extremely helpful.
I really recommend you click on that link and go through this exercise.
Now I have written lists of what I need TO DO and written lists of MY DESIRES.
I just paged through these lists this morning and wrote down the various things that I want and need that others can easily get for me as gifts.
These items are satisfactory in any number of ways.
It does not matter the color, style and that type of thing so much.
Clothing is difficult to buy for others, for example.
Creating this simple list will help you and help the people that want to buy you a gift.
It is an easy, fun thing to do that makes everyone's life a little easier.
It is the weekend before Thanksgiving as I write this and I am going to my parents home for Thanksgiving dinner.
The talk will eventually get to what we want for Christmas.
This goes on at every family across the world.
People want to know what you would like for Christmas.
With that information they can go shopping with those ideas in mind rather than having no clue.
Most of the time, when asked, "what do you want for Christmas?" you will say, oh I don't need anything, I am fine, I have everything I need, whatever you want to get is fine.
This is not the right answer.
This is not helping the person who asks at all.
Instead of making their gift buying easier by getting something you really want or could really use or really need, they have to spend a bunch of time thinking about what you would like and then a lot of time in the stores looking at all kinds of things trying to decide.
Why put people through all that stress? Why not just give them a short Christmas list of the things that you really want, or that you really need? This way everyone is happy.
They get the less stressful holiday shopping for you.
Instead of combing through the stores and trying to remember what you have and don't have, they just go out and get what you said.
You get something that you really want or need that was on your list.
You both win.
I just made out my Christmas list.
Here it is to give you an idea: 1) 2 matching floor mats for my kitchen.
One mat for the sink and one mat for in front of the patio door.
2) Flatware, set of 8.
I have plenty but they are old, non matching and stained.
3) Set of pots and pans, especially a flat pan.
I had to throw out my flat pan, it was ruined, and the others are scratched.
4) Digital camera.
Just a small, inexpensive one is fine.
5) Outdoor mat for wiping feet in front of my door.
6) 2 electrical power sticks.
7) Rectangular baking pan.
8) Pizza pan for the oven.
9) Multivitamins.
This is just a simple list that anyone could shop for me.
Each item will not cost that much.
These are all things from my master lists that I really want.
I created my master lists from the principles I learned in How to Reboot your Brain by John Reese.
This method of listing ALL of what you want to buy, have and do is extremely helpful.
I really recommend you click on that link and go through this exercise.
Now I have written lists of what I need TO DO and written lists of MY DESIRES.
I just paged through these lists this morning and wrote down the various things that I want and need that others can easily get for me as gifts.
These items are satisfactory in any number of ways.
It does not matter the color, style and that type of thing so much.
Clothing is difficult to buy for others, for example.
Creating this simple list will help you and help the people that want to buy you a gift.
It is an easy, fun thing to do that makes everyone's life a little easier.