Every year, the Christmas card project rivals only cookie baking as the most time-consuming aspect of pre-Christmas.  I have to push myself to sit down every day with my box of envelopes, cards and Christmas letters because, of course, I have to write at least one sentence in each card. The process is almost like a story assignment.  It's there.  It gnaws at you.  You know you need to get started, but you usually dabble with other urgent items rather than sit down and plunge into it. Christmas music helps inspire me.  So, I fire up a CD and go sit with my pile.  One could call the annual Christmas card project a major headache, but like story assignments, the getting down and dirty part of  it elicits wonderful rewards, especially in the mind/Marianne Love, Slight Detour. More here.

Question: Which Christmas chore do you find most tedious? How do you deal with it?