In denial about Christmas?
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As someone always short of time, Christmas shopping might not be on your radar yet. Not to worry, Consider it Done’s Cool Christmas Gift Guide has you covered.
If you’re not sure where to start with gift ideas for your in-laws, or you’re stressing about how to recognise your team for their hard work this year, our Cool Christmas Gift Guide (see link below) is burgeoning with original and ingenious options.
You’'ll find sections for Difficult Dads, Tricky Teenagers, for Hosts, and even a section for you – if you go blank when you’re asked what you’d like this year. Plus if you’re a CiD client, we’ve built-in easy reference numbering so you can send us a quick list of gifts, and we’ll organise everything on your behalf.
Not only that but we’ve teamed up with a gift-wrapping service partner, who will even wrap everything in your home if you’d like!
Hours and hours of valuable time saved. Scroll below for more details. It doesn’t stop there either because there’s no Christmas request too big or small for the team at
Consider it Done: from a 10-foot tree delivery, to age 6 brown tights for a Christmas pudding costume.
“I just want to say how wonderful the service is and what a weight off my mind it is having you guys there.”
- Crystal Danbury
Read, watch and listen
READ: ‘Be Intentional About How You Spend Your Time Off’ – Harvard Business
Review (3 min read)
WATCH: ‘How to Wrap an Oddly-Shaped Gift’ - Martha Stewart
(2 min video with sound)
LISTEN: ‘It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas’ - Bing Crosby
(3 min song)
How to be a GGG: (Great Giver of Gifts)
It might not surprise you to know the team at Consider it Done is frequently asked for interesting gift ideas. So we like to think that we are somewhat experts in the art of finding a great gift.
And before you say it, the gift doesn’t have to be expensive to be good. Its value to the recipient will be in much more than that. It’s about thought, creativity, effort, sentiment, and imagination.
“Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.”
– Peg Bracken
So - as someone desperately short of time - what are the fundamentals of being a GGG, that mean you can minimise time spent in pursuit of the perfect offering, and maximise the joy of the receiver? (And also your own joy of course for having nailed it.)
Here are our Pro-tips for being a GGG.
Christmas wrapping made easy
Banish sellotape stress and last-minute wrapping woes with the brilliant mobile gift wrapping service from one of our favourite service partners: Lets Get It Wrapped. Yes that’s right – you don’t even need to leave home because the amazing team will come to you, equipped with all the paper and ribbon you’d ever need. (They cover London, Surrey, Sussex and Kent.) There are other options too – they can collect your gifts, wrap at their HQ and send on to your recipients. Or return them back to you.
Gift wrapping starts at £6 a parcel, priced by size (min order £60). Plus, there’s an exclusive offer for Consider it Done clients: the 10th parcel is wrapped FOC with our compliments.
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The Christmas Countdown will be less stressful for our clients this year because we:
➤ Found a last-minute skiing holiday for the whole family
➤ Had the spare bedroom decorated in time for guests
➤ Organised a black-tie cocktail party
“One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas Day. Don't clean it up too quickly."
- Andy Rooney
Lapland UK
Are you looking for a fun, festive activity to spark your children’s imagination and create a memorable experience for the whole family? Over at Ascot in the Whitmoor Forest, you’ll find Lapland UK – the perfect place for a Christmas adventure based on a re-imagination of the Father Christmas myth.
First, every child receives a personal invitation from Father Christmas asking for their help in the Lapland Toy Factory.
Then on arrival, you’ll journey through the Enchanted Forest to find the Toy Factory.
There, children make their own toy and decorate a delicious treat with Mother Christmas.
There’s an Elven Feast to enjoy in Pumpernickel's Restaurant, and after travelling deeper into the snowy forest to see the reindeer and sleigh, your child will meet Father Christmas himself.
On Christmas morning, your child can unwrap the toy they made in the Toy Factory with a postcard from Father Christmas thanking them for their help in Lapland.
Prices range from £395 to £695 (by time/date chosen). Book up to 24th December 2023. Interested in this immersive, captivating Christmas experience? Ask the CiD team for more details HERE
Coming up in December…
If you enjoyed this newsletter and would like more insights from CiD, here’s what you can expect to see on our LinkedIn and Instagram pages this month:
➤ Seasonal shortcuts
➤ 10 ways a PA can save the day at Christmas
➤ Why do people leave Christmas to the last minute?
To discover more about how we support our clients, please be invited to book a brief explore call or virtual coffee at a time and date that suits you.