QNS - when I bake for Christmas, I make around 4 types of drop cookies, and several bar cookies. I will make the dough for all the drop cookies one day and refrigerate it. The next day I will bake all the cookies. Then the 3rd day, I will put the frosting or decorations on all the cookies. I read about this process a few years ago, and love it. All the flour, sugar, etc you can put away after the first day. All you do the second day, is line the cookie sheets with parchment paper, and I use cookie scoops to scoop out the dough and bake all the cookies. It just seems a more orderly way to bake a lot of variety of cookies. When I did it the conventional way, it seemed I was always getting busy mixing, and ended up burning some of the cookies. My way, all you do is scoop and bake on the second day!