Your Personal Holiday Assistant
Welcome to Holiday911, a new blog that will appear right here from now until New Year's. If you're feeling shopped out or stressed out we'd like to help, answering questions about cooking, entertaining, organizing, dressing up or winding down.
I'm Liz Seymour, an editor in the Home section. I'm already feeling a bit stressed out myself, juggling the demands of a full-time job, two toddlers and a husband who works 12 hours a day. I'm going to be cooking Thanksgiving dinner, doing most of the gift-buying for my family and friends, and planning at least two other dinners before the New Year. (I expect to be sleeping when the clock hits 12!)
I'll field your questions, and confer with other reporters and editors at The Washington Post and washingtonpost.com to post a helpful reply. Please send questions to the comments section of this blog, or e-mail them to holiday911@washpost.com.
Plus, check out our brand new online destination, washingtonpost.com/holidayguide. We're getting started today with a day-by-day timeline for planning and preparing Thanksgiving dinner, a turkey taste test and a recipe collection of side dishes. Also starting today: our daily calendar of reminders to keep you on top of things in the weeks ahead.
By Liz Seymour |
November 15, 2006; 8:30 AM ET
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Thanksgiving
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Posted by: Mary | November 15, 2006 11:36 AM
I'd be very interested in hearing how others approach gift-giving within the family. Every year, my adult siblings and I struggle with this: do we pick names and buy within a very reasonable dollar limit, do we do a Yankee Swap? Do we combine resources to buy one bigger gift for our parents? What about nieces and nephews? Our problem is that we have no traditions in this area; we switch every year! Interested in creative approaches; we want to do something for each other, but we are not the hand-made gifts types. Thanks!
Posted by: arlingtonmom | November 15, 2006 03:07 PM
I'm trying to buy for a group of about a dozen people -- in previous years we've tried a secret Santa sort of deal, but inevitably someone always gets forgotten no matter how much time we give people(which makes it a lot less fun for those forgotten), so that idea has been scrapped.
Is there an affordable alternative that will still be nice-looking? I am thinking of getting them all some smallish identical items or putting together small gift bags for each, I just want them to not look like I'm trying to be a cheapskate here. I'm afraid I'm not terribly craft-inclined, otherwise I'd make things. Could you help?
Posted by: On a Budget | November 16, 2006 10:38 AM
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I'm desperately trying to find organic clothing for children this holiday season! Are there any stores that sell it?