12 Days of Christmas Organizing Tips – Day 12: Evaluation
When your holiday celebrations have ended and you’re relaxing and preparing for the new year, take a few minutes to evaluate your holiday season. Think about what Christmas means to you and whether you accomplished everything you wanted to this year. What signifies Christmas for you? {Volunteering for the Christmas Eve service at church? Drinking hot chocolate and driving around looking at Christmas lights? Black Friday shopping?} Which activities did you cut this year? Did you miss them? How did your family gatherings go? {Did you have meaningful conversations? Did you capture the...
Read More12 Days of Christmas Organizing Tips – Day 11: Travel & Packing
When preparing for holiday travel, consider the following tips to organize your trip: {This list of tips was compiled from family members who have traveled extensively during the holidays! Some of these were learned the hard way…} For car travel, check the car top carrier to ensure it is still waterproof a few days before departure Don’t put bows onto presents until you reach your destination Book your pet sitter/boarding early before they fill up Charge electronic devices ahead of time Use a checklist for kids {like the one found here}, so they can pack themselves Pack the...
Read More12 Days of Christmas Organizing Tips – Day 10: One In, One Out Rule
As you celebrate the tradition of giving and receiving gifts, don’t allow the gifts you receive to create stress and clutter in your home. Follow the one in, one out rule. If you receive a sweater, select an older less used sweater to donate. For every toy your child receives, select one to donate to the less fortunate. If everything in your house has a home and everything is in it’s place, you will be able to replace items easier and continue to contain the clutter. How do you contain the Christmas gift...
Read More12 Days of Christmas Organizing Tips – Day 9: Food Prep
The holiday season is full of food & family gatherings. I was going to do a fun post about all of the great ways to get inspired to make scrumptious, hearty dinners and yummy treats for your friends, neighbors and family, but I got so distracted browsing: PINTEREST! If you have not checked out Pinterest, run – do not walk – to the nearest computer and browse to your heart’s content. If you don’t walk away inspired, I will give you your money back {it’s a FREE site!}. After you’ve gotten inspired, make a list of the treats you want to give away, meals...
Read More12 Days of Christmas Organizing Tips – Day 8: Ornament Storage
After the holiday celebrations wrap up and you enter the season of clearing out your space and cleaning up bad habits, you will get the urge to take down the Christmas decorations. {Hopefully, you’ll get this urge before Memorial Day.} The age-old question rises again… what is the best way to store Christmas ornaments so they won’t get broken or damaged? Thankfully, ornament storage has gotten more advanced over the years. No longer do you need to wrap each ornament in newspaper and stuff it into shoeboxes! Consider other functional and fun storage methods: Â Snapware...
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