Doesn’t time fly! It feels like just yesterday you were ringing in the new year, and now you can see the festive season on the horizon.
It’s really crept up on you, hasn’t it? Well, we’re here to make things easier by putting together a handy to-do list.
You’ve got 100 days to go, so it only seems fair for us to give you 100 things to check off. Pay close attention.
1. Buy the first round of presents
2. Restock the drinks cupboard for when the family comes round
3. Clear space on the shelf for that massive double-issue of Radio Times
4. Wonder out loud whether you should get a goose instead of a turkey this year
5. Go to the shops and look at the fancy wrapping paper. Don’t buy it, but look at it
6. Head to LookAfterMyBills.com to see how much you could save on your energy bills
7. Check the cinema listings for this year’s December releases
8. Set up your ‘countdown to Christmas’ calendar and tick off the first day
9. Sample all the different advent calendars you can find, as ‘research’
10. Spend several hours arguing over whether ‘Die Hard’ is a Christmas film
11. Learn exactly one Christmas carol
12. Find out what myrrh is
13. Look up a recipe for eggnog
14. Make eggnog
15. Take a sip and promise to never make eggnog ever again
16. Buy some more rum for the drinks cupboard
17. Remind people that Santa only wears red because of Coca-Cola
18. Watch the Coca-Cola Christmas advert
19. Watch the John Lewis Christmas advert
20. Watch all the parodies of the John Lewis Christmas advert
21. Go shopping for big coats
22. Fill in your details at LookAfterMyBills.com
23. Look up cheap flights for January – you’re bound to need a break by then
24. Stock up on Christmas cards for friends and family
25. Buy two advent calendars: one for December, one for now
26. Listen to Last Christmas to ‘get in the festive spirit’
27. Listen to Fairytale of New York
28. Listen to Killing in the Name by Rage Against the Machine. What? It was Christmas number one that one time
29. Spend several hours arguing over whether ‘Iron Man 3’ is a Christmas film
30. Watch A Muppet Christmas Carol on TV and complain about them cutting out that one song from the edited version
31. Find out what Frankincense is
32. Look into the price of a turducken
33. Rule out buying a prohibitively expensive turducken
34. Watch the Christmas episode of The Simpsons, you know the one we mean
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35. Go for a walk in the park
36. Try to remember what actual snow looks like
37. Clean all the fancy cutlery and crockery
38. Re-clean it because a basic once-through in the dishwasher wasn’t nearly enough
39. Contemplate buying fancy Christmas crackers
40. Realise it’s a false economy and buy the regular ones instead
41. Head to LookAfterMyBills.com and let us auto-switch you to the energy deal you deserve
42. Book an extra day off work just to sit in front of the TV and eat leftovers
43. Buy a loaf of fancy bread from the bakers to test its ‘durability’ for Boxing Day sandwiches
44. Look up why it’s called ‘Boxing Day’
45. Spend several hours reading wikipedia articles about boxing (the sport) and boxers (the dogs)
46. Book tickets to a pantomime
47. Look up who’s turning on the Christmas lights in your hometown
48. Look up who’s turning on the Christmas lights in a neighbouring town and get jealous
49. Watch ‘The Grinch’
50. Stop to consider how weird a creature the Grinch actually is
51. Buy some wrapping paper
52. Go back to buy more wrapping paper because you horribly misjudged the amount you’d need
53. Let us auto-switch you to a better energy deal by signing up at LookAfterMyBills.com
54. Try on that santa suit you last wore 6 years ago
55. Take your santa suit to the dry-cleaners
56. Take your regular suit to the dry-cleaners. How have you managed to get the santa suit cleaned more recently?
57. Get a headstart on your New Year’s resolutions for 2020
58. Check how you’ve got on with your New Year’s resolutions for 2019
59. Panic and try to start learning a new language so you can at least tick off *one* thing from the 2019 list
60. Spend several hours in a Wikipedia rabbit hole after looking up the origins of New Year’s resolutions
61. Find out how much Look After My Bills can save you by switching you to a better energy deal
62. Feign interest in your child’s school nativity play
63. Ask why a nativity play ‘needs’ aliens in it
64. Watch ‘Love Actually’ and get sad about Alan Rickman
65. Watch ‘Die Hard’ and get sad about Alan Rickman
66. Try to form an argument that every Alan Rickman film is a Christmas film, even the Harry Potter ones
67. Wonder how long it takes people to switch off while reading lists of 100 things
68. Check those flights again in case they’ve gone down in price
69. Go to LookAfterMyBills.com and never worry about your energy bills ever again
70. Wonder aloud how much you might be able to save by switching to a cheaper energy deal, and head over to LookAfterMyBills.com
71. Pour yourself a glass of milk and take a sip
72. Oh no, it’s eggnog again
73. Buy the rest of the presents, plus a couple of gift cards as backups
74. Buy some more rum. A fancier one, this time
75. Make plans to go to an American friend’s Thanksgiving dinner as ‘turkey practice’
76. Suddenly realise why we only eat turkey one day per year
77. Consider just buying a Christmas ham this year
78. Watch ‘A Muppet Christmas Carol’ again
79. Attempt to recast some other Christmas films with muppets. Kermit’s nephew Robin as Kevin in Home Alone? Sure, why not?
80. Try to figure out if the new Fozzie Bear-led It’s a Wonderful Life should still be in black and white
81. Buy the big Radio Times and circle all the shows you want to watch
82. Record several hours of TV you’ll never watch because of all of the clashes
83. Book a trip to the local ice rink
84. Cut your hand when you fall on the ice and someone skates over the fleshy part, and spend half an hour ‘medically’ treating it with a Blue Slush puppy from the concessions stand
85. Go to the supermarket in an effort to find blue raspberries. Look, if it’s a flavour then it should be an ingredient too
86. Buy a snow-shovel ‘just in case’
87. Throw out stuff you actually use to make space for said snow shovel
88. Use a rare break from chores to enter your details at LookAfterMyBills.com
89. Collect your santa suit from the dry-cleaners
90. Collect your other suit, which you didn’t realise wouldn’t be ready on the same day
91. Treat yourself and your partner to a meal out, and pretend you’re not about to spend all the money you have and more over the Christmas holidays
92. Buy some milk and cookies to leave out for Santa
93. Finally get around to telling your friends and family what you want for Christmas
94. Try to write some of your own cracker jokes this year
95. Laugh at how hilarious you are
96. Finally book yourself in for that cookery class you got for a present last Christmas
97. Buy a Christmas tree and some ‘comedy’ decorations
98. Throw out the comedy decorations and buy some normal ones after a series of complaints
99. Check this article for any subliminal messages
100. Did we mention you should sign up at LookAfterMyBills.com and save money on your energy bills?
