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!
A simple calendar keeps the family on-track during the busy holiday season. Get calendar tips for an organized Christmas!
How to get ready for Christmas? Printable holiday planner pages, gift lists and worksheets hold the key.
How to have the holiday season of your dreams? It's all about the plan ... a holiday plan. Get ready, get organized for Christmas!
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.
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!
Scanning a list of handmade craft gifts is something like reading a cookbook: it makes you hungry!
Whether you wander the crafts store, settle in at the library's craft bookshelf, or browse online, visions of bright and beautiful gifts follow one after the other. Will this be the year you give hand-crafted gifts ... to everyone?
Warning! Holiday reality check ahead!
It's week two of the Christmas Countdown, and time to consider the darker side of the holiday season. Though we may not be conscious of them, hidden holiday forces work to over-run our budgets and distort our decision-making.
Wrapping gifts for the holidays? Repeat after me: "This year, I won't be wrapping gifts at midnight on Christmas Eve!"
If there's a single most-underestimated holiday chore, it's gift wrapping. Supplies lie scattered throughout the house, while space and privacy are hard to come by. Translation: late-night Christmas Eve wrapping sessions, grumbling your way through the job.
Time to kick off the Christmas Countdown? It's Get Organized Week. Get the assignments, printables and inspiration to get ready for Christmas.
