Christmas Countdown: Decorate Week
by Cynthia Ewer
American Thanksgiving arrives this week ... and we've reached Decorate Week at the Christmas Countdown.
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Get the look, keep your cash? Sure, with these frugal strategies for holiday decorating.
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Where do you stand on the unwritten rules of gift-giving? Review easy ways to cut gift-giving stress.
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Giving season ahead! Make quick work of wrapping and mailing Christmas gifts with designated space for tools and supplies. Printable checklist!
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The Christmas Countdown is here! Get ready, get organized for the holiday season with this free six-week program. Free printables!
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Starting to draft holiday letters? Try these tips to make your Christmas letter stand out ... and share the joy.
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Get the house standing tall for the holidays--without losing your mind--with this simple home improvement planning exercise.
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Get ready for photo shoots, worship or dinner with Grandma: check holiday wardrobes now! Includes free printable wardrobe planner.
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Have you been BOO-ed? It's a Halloween tradition based on a porch drop by a "secret friend".
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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.
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Printable or digital, a master list for Christmas gifts brings order to holiday giving. Three tips for an organized Christmas.
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Don't let holiday sentiment derail your family's finances. Fight back with a Christmas holiday budget. Free printable!
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A simple calendar keeps the family on-track during the busy holiday season. Get calendar tips for an organized Christmas!
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How to get ready for Christmas? Printable holiday planner pages, gift lists and worksheets hold the key.
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How to have the holiday season of your dreams? It's all about the plan ... a holiday plan. Get ready, get organized for Christmas!
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Celebrate Christmas in a clean and organized home, working week-by-week throughout the fall? Welcome to the House & Holidays Plan!
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Clean house for Christmas with the Holiday Grand Plan! Work week-by-week to create a clean and organized home for the holidays.
Organized Christmas
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.
Christmas Countdown Day 28: Get Ready for Thanksgiving
by Cynthia Ewer
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!
No More UFOs! Get-Em-Done Strategies for Handmade Holiday Gifts
by Cynthia Ewer
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?
Christmas Countdown: Reality Check Week
by Cynthia Ewer
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.
It's A Wrap: Set Up A Gift Wrap And Mail Center
by Cynthia Ewer
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.
Christmas Countdown: Get Organized Week
by Cynthia Ewer
Time to kick off the Christmas Countdown? It's Get Organized Week. Get the assignments, printables and inspiration to get ready for Christmas.
About the Christmas Countdown
by Cynthia Ewer
What's the Christmas Countdown?
Christmas. The holidays. Chances are, those words send happy images straight to your heart!
Children's faces, breathless with wonder and delight. Shining lights on a beautifully trimmed Christmas tree.
Delicious scents of fresh cookies and hot cider. A bounty of gifts, wrapped and beribboned. The cheerful hubbub of family members gathered from far-flung homes.
Christmas Countdown: Print Calendar and Checklists
by Cynthia Ewer
Will you follow the Christmas Countdown this year? Beginning Sunday, October 25, we'll prepare for the holiday season with daily messages, weekly assignments, encouragement and fun. This six-week get-organized program will take you to the start of the holiday season, prepared and ready for Christmas.
Seven Tips for Sparkling Christmas Letters
by Cynthia Ewer
Christmas is coming, holiday cards and letters fill the mailbox--and it's time to write your family's annual Christmas letter.
Want your letter to stand out from the crowd? Looking for ways to spice up the same-old, same-old Christmas greeting? Try these seven tips for a sparkling holiday letter.
Holiday House Fever? Cure It With A Home Spruce-Up Exercise
by Cynthia Ewer
Autumn is here. Look around the house. Does your temperature rise when you see stained carpets, smudged switch plates and faded window coverings?
With Christmas on the horizon, it's tempting to dive right in to a long list of home improvements. Stop! Wait! Biting off more than you can chew on the home front is a sure-fire recipe for holiday stress.
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