Hi, Steva Robbins here with the Get It Done guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Today's episode is about managing holiday shopping when you have lots of relatives and no idea what to get them.

The quick and dirty tip is to use web-based to-do lists like tada list.com to manage and share

your holiday lists with your loved ones, or at least with the people you feel obligated to buy

stuff for. Once upon a time, holidays were simple. We had two parents, three adult children,

and one significant other. We all knew each other and we bought each

other gifts that we thought would be nice. Life was good. Then, in the space of a year and a half,

bang. Two more significant others, three kids, new relatives barging in, left and right. Suddenly

it was impossible to know who wanted what. I thought Bernice wanted the expensive moisturizer,

and Jonathan wanted the power tools. Oops. Other way

around. Now John's freaking out about his complexion and Bernice is

freaking out because she needs a power drill to finish the nursery. Then

another cousin got married. The bride and the groom told us to check out

the registry for gift ideas. Do you know about these things? They're

great. You put together a list of stuff you want and people buy it for you. Hello, I want one.

But why wait for weddings? If everyone had a registry all the time, think how much easier it would

make gift giving. Hmm. If only. Well, thanks to the miracle of technology, our family now

has a registry year-round. We used a free to-do list website to start our own registries.

Here's what we do. We created a page for our family called the family registry. Each of us

created a separate to-do list on the page. We called

all our relatives and explained that they should set up a registry for our convenience.

We phrased it more diplomatically. Tell us what you want. Then, if we still love you

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