How to get ready for Christmas? Printable holiday planner pages, gift lists and worksheets hold the key.
A simple calendar keeps the family on-track during the busy holiday season. Get calendar tips for an organized Christmas!
Planning a Christmas calendar--and organizing creative spaces--take shape this week, in the House & Holidays Plan
Planning for Christmas during summer? Yes, you can ... here's how, and why!
How to have the holiday season of your dreams? It's all about the plan ... a holiday plan. Get ready, get organized for Christmas!
This week in the House & Holidays Plan: planning and paperwork. Kick off Week 1 and get organized for Christmas.
Holidays come, and gone ... and left a blizzard of clutter behind? Year-end clutter-cutting tips to start the new year in an organized home.
Keep the focus on seasonal values, with tips and techniques to teach children to give.
Get the look, keep your cash? Sure, with these frugal strategies for holiday decorating.
Where do you stand on the unwritten rules of gift-giving? Review easy ways to cut gift-giving stress.
Giving season ahead! Make quick work of wrapping and mailing Christmas gifts with designated space for tools and supplies. Printable checklist!
The Christmas Countdown is here! Get ready, get organized for the holiday season with this free six-week program. Free printables!
Starting to draft holiday letters? Try these tips to make your Christmas letter stand out ... and share the joy.
Get the house standing tall for the holidays--without losing your mind--with this simple home improvement planning exercise.
Get ready for photo shoots, worship or dinner with Grandma: check holiday wardrobes now! Includes free printable wardrobe planner.
Have you been BOO-ed? It's a Halloween tradition based on a porch drop by a "secret friend".
Shop around the year to save money on Christmas? A gift closet makes it easy ... and cheap. Get tips and free printable gift closet inventory.
Printable or digital, a master list for Christmas gifts brings order to holiday giving. Three tips for an organized Christmas.
Don't let holiday sentiment derail your family's finances. Fight back with a Christmas holiday budget. Free printable!
Celebrate Christmas in a clean and organized home, working week-by-week throughout the fall? Welcome to the House & Holidays Plan!
Clean house for Christmas with the Holiday Grand Plan! Work week-by-week to create a clean and organized home for the holidays.
Do the holidays find you festive ... or frazzled? Stop the stress with tips, ideas and printables for an organized Christmas. Find a get-organized plan, get gift suggestions or print a Christmas planner.
As we get ready for Christmas, we’ll be making lists (and checking them a lot more than twice!), holding discussions with spouses, children and parents, and drawing up a holiday budget.
Too often, we record our plans piecemeal, consigning them to a confused clutter of scrawled envelopes, jotted notes and cryptic calendar entries—none of which make it to the shopping center with us when it’s time to buy gifts.
Ask any mother of young children: time pressure creates a unique stressor during the Christmas season. Holiday events, school functions and holiday parties crowd December days; service projects, travel and worship activities double.
Summer's in full swing--and baby, it's hot outside! Need a diversion? Late summer is the perfect time to look ahead to the holiday season!
Start Christmas planning now, and you'll reap abundant benefits come December. But not everyone agrees. Citing "Christmas creep"--the tendency of retail stores to display holiday merchandise while it's still summer--many people resist the idea of starting early for an organized Christmas.
What's the best road to calm and joyous holidays? It's all about the plan! Preparing for Christmas with the help of a step-by-step plan makes quick work of seasonal chores, and leaves plenty of time, energy--and money!--to celebrate the season.
Here at OrganizedHome.com, we're home to two of the Web's oldest holiday plans: the Christmas Countdown and the Holiday Grand Plan.
Sure, you love the holiday season--but just not so much of it! This year, you're hoping to cut the crazy out of Christmas: to trim the celebration back to one that is sustainable and calm.
Question is, just how do you do less--and enjoy it more--during the Christmas holiday season?
Cutting costs at Christmas doesn't mean celebrating like Scrooge. It's not about what you buy--it's about what you do!
Putting "celebration" at the center of the season--and taking the focus off of gifts and giving--can be the key to happy holidays that don't break the bank.
Recently, I eavesdropped on an online discussion about teaching children to give.
The original writer was a concerned, conscientious parent of a preschooler. This father shared his plan to teach his daughter about holiday giving. They would, he wrote, sort through the child's toys and set aside several toys "to give to needy children."
"Tradition" is a powerful force that sometimes pulls an unsuspecting family along in its wake. Do your holiday traditions serve your family, your values and your spiritual beliefs--or are you running a tired and joyless circle during the holiday season in the name of tradition?
American Thanksgiving arrives this week ... and we've reached Decorate Week at the Christmas Countdown.
As Get Cooking Week comes to a close, we look ahead to next week's Thanksgiving feast--and the kick-off to the holiday season.
Today's assignments wrap up final Get Cooking chores: stocking the freezer and checking last-minute shopping lists.
Finally, we finish the week by thinking ahead to upcoming Black Friday / Cyber Monday sales. Ready? Get organized ... for a great holiday season!
