Saving for the Holidays

I'm already contemplating how to go about saving for next Christmas and birthdays. It's not going to be at all easy this year with the things that we already know are coming up, but now is the time to start planning already. Luckily, we were able to give the kids some pretty nice things, most of the toys the little ones wanted and some money and wii games for the older one. We really need to save up so that we can get shopping done earlier next time, this one we cut pretty close and ended up having to substitute some things, which was rather disappointing for us at least.