The time has come.
It is time to sign up for The Art of Doing Stuff's Christmas Pledge. A hand over heart, pinkie swear, spit in your palm and shake hands agreement that you will get everything you need to get done for Christmas before December 1st.
Except decorating the tree. 'Cause decorating the tree before December 1st is a practice performed only by lunatics and scary people. And I assume, some of you.
The Christmas Pledge was started on this blog a few years ago with more and more people taking part. It's a way to force you into doing the crappy stuff in November, leaving the fun stuff for December. Things like baking cookies and watching Christmas movies. Unless you hate baking cookies and watching Christmas movies in which case you'd better get those things done in November.
I will have a calendar up in the next few days that you can refer to in terms of what you need to get done and by when.
I know there are some of you who avoid the Christmas Pledge. And may in fact refer to it as the Christmas Plague. So I've taken a moment to let you know exactly why you should join the ranks of the Christmas Pledgers.
The following list is a real life account of what will probably happen to you in the month of December, 2013 (based on whether you do or do NOT take the pledge)
The final decision as to whether to sign the pledge or not can only be made by you. Do you want to win a Nobel Peace Prize and eat cookies? Or do you wanna get shanked?
If you're ready to nap and eat cookies throughout the month of December, sign up now.
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As added encouragement, those of you who have taken the pledge in past years, feel free to leave a comment saying how well it worked for you. (no showing off by writing your comment in Japanese or Sanskrit or whatever other language you spontaneously learned by taking the pledge)
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Ange
I've done it! Apartment is decorated, almost all presents bought and wrapped, online orders placed, I think I may have two or three presents left to buy and stocking stuffers. I just started a new (busy!) job so it feels SO nice to come home to a virtually holiday ready house after a long day.
Karen
Nice work! You're way ahead of me, LOL. :) ~ karen!
SarahP
Its always been my goal to be done by December 1st. I failed last year and suffered from the last minute hectic scramble - never again. I'M IN!
Dawn
I'm mentally signing up - don't want to put anything in writing in case I fail. Ah. Wait...
angela
Taking the pledge but decorating tree this weekend!
Zoe
I'm in. I'm flying home to Ireland on the 12th December. so I really need to be done before that! The 1st it is :)! Thanks Karen :D
Jodi
I am in!!! Though I hate, hate, hate seeing shops haul out their Christmas merchandise waaaayyyy to early! (This year, I kid you not, trees in Kmart on the 22nd of September! It gets earlier every year. Why they don't just have it in one aisle all year round with the Easter and Valentine's Day and Halloween stuff so we can ignore it until we deem it worthy of our attention. Ok, rant over. Thanks Karen for encouraging me to be organised.