How Do I Join The Countdown?

How do you join the Countdown? It's a simple as visiting this web site ... and it's free!

There are three main components to our six-week Christmas organizing plan: a free printable Christmas holiday planner, daily Countdown reminder messages and week-by-week assignments, and the fun and friendship of other Countdown members.

1. Make a Christmas planner notebook

The first step is to designate a Christmas holiday planner: a simple 3-ring notebook stocked with Christmas planner forms, calendars and checklists.

During the first week of the Countdown, you'll print most of the Christmas planner notebook forms, but many people prefer to get a head start. Visit the Countdown forms area of this site.

Begin with the Countdown calendar. It outlines the themes for each week of the Countdown. Add printable monthly planning calendars to your notebook. They'll form the backbone of your family's holiday planning.

Next, become familiar with each week's forms and assignments. Learn more about how the Countdown's six weekly themes will help you organize holiday gift-buying, cleaning, cooking, holiday cards and decorating.

We'll print the remainder of the forms as the Countdown progresses, but many folks like to complete this step ahead of time. Go right ahead!

Thinking about gifts? The Countdown notebook makes a great gift for friends and family members, so we've made it easy to give: next year's dated forms are free for the printing. Print extras for gifts--and next year, get ready for Christmas together!

2. Read daily reminder messages

Each day during the Countdown, we'll post a daily message with assignments, essays, links, recipes, and craft ideas on the OrganizedChristmas.Com home page. You'll read an inspiring message, and find links to the day's assignments, printable forms, craft and recipe ideas.

To read daily messages on the Web, you may want to bookmark our home page, or add it to your Web browser's favorites.