This year we decided to spread the Holiday Cheer out at our house this year by doing the 12 Days of Christmas again.  I did this last year and it was a huge hit.  Christmas morning can be so busy and this allows an opportunity to spread the fun over 12 days instead of packing everything into one day.  Starting December 13th the girls will be able to open one a day until Christmas.  The cost was less than $20 total, including boxes and wrapping paper.  Most of the gifts were bought on clearance over the past year.  We did a joint stack for both of our girls, however, you can choose to do a stack for each person.

Here is what our 12 Days of Christmas includes:

• Day 1:  Christmas Ornament for each girl (purchased last year after Christmas on clearance with rewards).
• Day 2:  Two Music CD’s by Suzi Shelton (received CD’s from doing a review and giveaway)
• Day 3:  DVD Veggie Tales (DVD was free, but paid a small fee for shipping)
• Day 4: Two Giant Candy Canes, one Princess and 1 Cars (purchased with rewards)
• Day 5:  Two Christmas Coloring Books (purchased on clearance with rewards)
• Day 6:  Christmas Craft, painting ornaments (purchased with rewards on clearance)
  
• Day 7:  Christmas Flower and Snowman (purchased with rewards on clearance)
• Day 8:  Christmas Book God Gave Us Christmas by Lisa Tawn Bergren (purchased when it was on sale with Swagbucks gift card)
• Day 9:  Two Christmas Headbands (purchased with rewards on clearance)
• Day 10:  Game (found on clearance at Kmart and used gift card)
  
• Day 11:  Two Hooded Bath Towels (used a coupon and picked them up on Black Friday)
• Day 12: PJs for each to wear Christmas Eve (picked up on sale and used a coupon)

Other Ideas for 12 Days of Christmas:

• Hair Accessories
• Facial Cleansers or Make Up – if you have a teenager just starting to wear makeup or want to update your collection my Mary Kay contact is doing a 12 Day of Christmas set!  If your husband is looking for something awesome to get you he may want to contact Ann too.
• Socks or Tights
• Chapstick
• Socks
• Gloves or Scarf
• Card Game
• Construction Paper
• Markers or Crayons
• Matchbox cars
• Small Toys
• Baby Doll Clothes
• Christmas Underwear
• The ideas are endless!

Karlie & Brina excited about their 12 Days of Christmas

I wrapped them in the original boxes or found ones around the house to put the items into.  The Christmas paper was purchased on clearance and I used a coupon.  Many of the items we purchased on clearance throughout the year and / or used CVS – ECBs and Walgreens – Register Rewards, Swagbucks Gift Cards or Coupons.  I cannot remember the price for all the items but with the rewards it may have been under $10 out of pocket for the entire set of 12 gifts and some days had multiple items in them.  We did a joint stack for our girls to save money, however, the items we picked match their individual interests (for example the craft with one being princess and the other being cars).  When the girls walked into the room and saw the stack of gifts they were super excited.