Storage Week

Decorations shine bright this week in the Houseworks Holiday Plan! 

As we remove them from storage, we'll focus on the storage space they call home the other eleven months of the year.

In holiday prep, the season moves toward full swing with the coming of Advent. It's time to complete gift shopping, mail send-away gifts and complete holiday decorating.

This Week's Houseworks Focus: Storage Space
Reading Assignments from Houseworks:

• The rules of household storage - page 222
  Store efficiently, store right!

Inspiration from the Web:

• Simplify Holiday Traditions 
• Teaching Children to Give 

This Week's Holiday Prep Checklist:

• Begin family Advent observances.  Advent begins on Sunday; consider your family's traditions carefully.
• Complete holiday decorating.  
• Order Christmas ham, roast or poultry.
• Finish gift shopping.  Where you can, wrap as you go to prevent a long night with the tape and ribbons on Christmas Eve.
• Mail domestic gifts.   Just say "no!" to lines at the post office; use USPS.Com to purchase postage, print shipping labels and arrange for carrier pick-up.
• Check cameras and camcorders  Be ready to capture the moment.  Will you need to buy film, batteries, cassettes or storage media?  Add any needed items to the shopping list.
• Make an under-tree "emergency box".  Use a gift-wrapped box with removable lid.  Placed under the tree, it holds extra bulbs, fuses, ornament hooks and batteries.

This Week's Forms to Print:

• Holiday Tradition Tracker
• Holiday Collections
• Ornament Journal

This Week On the Message Boards:

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