Simplify Your Holidays With A Christmas Organizing Plan!
Posted February 15th, 2008 by Cynthia Townley Ewer
The Christmas season has come and gone ... and next year, you vow to do better. How to simplify your holidays? Choose an organization plan!
Here at Organized Christmas, we know that preparing for the holiday season is a very individual decision.
Some folks prepare for Christmas instinctively: throughout the year, they stock up on gift items, tuck away baked goods, and organize decor storage as a matter of course.
Then there are the rest of us, who are stuck watching these enviable organized ones from the sidelines. Yet we, too, want to cruise through the holiday season, relaxed, prepared and ready to celebrate.
The solution? A holiday organization plan.
Part reminder service, part countdown, a holiday organization plan helps simplify your holidays. When you choose a plan, you'll be nudged, reminded, and motivated to begin preparation at the right time for you and your family.
Think this concept is only for the gung-ho Christmas lover? Not so! Even a half-hearted attempt to join in and prepare ahead for Christmas reaps a bounty of stress-relieving tips ... so consider, today, which plan you'll follow to simplify your holidays for 2008.
Here at Organized Christmas, we offer three different free organizing plans to help you get ready for Christmas. Whether you choose the year-round Rudolph Club, focus on an organized home with Autumn's Houseworks Holiday Plan, or the six-week Christmas Countdown, we'll help simplify your holidays for a stress-free celebration. Which plan is right for you?
Preparing For Christmas with the Rudolph Club
Want to spread holiday preparations across the entire year? Join the Rudolph Club! Visit this site on the 25th of each month for a short list of do-it-now holiday chores that will simplify your holiday. Month by month, you'll step closer and closer to a calm and organized Christmas.
There's a lot to recommend this concept. Gift-buying is easy on the budget when spread across an entire year. With short, simple once-a-month assignments, the Rudolph Club will help you build a gift closet, create a Christmas binder notebook to simplify your holidays, and catch up on holiday decorating, baking and meal planning.
Bring The Holidays Home With The Houseworks Holiday Plan
Need more help to prepare your home for the holidays? The Houseworks Holiday Plan is a comprehensive organizing plan to prepare the entire house for the holiday season: decluttered, organized and clean. Beginning in the early Autumn, the Houseworks Holiday Plan is for you if you're dreaming of celebrating the holidays from a clean and organized home.
Based on the book, Houseworks
Along the way, the Plan also breaks down holiday chores into small, achievable steps. You'll create a Christmas notebook, get a jump on gifts and plan scrumptious holiday meals. Working together with friends makes the journey fun!
Get Ready For Christmas with the Christmas Countdown!
The Christmas Countdown is a simplified, no-nonsense holiday organization plan. Beginning in late October, it's a six-week set of daily reminder messages, printable forms, essays to make you think, and fun-and-frugal gift, craft and baking ideas.
The Countdown is for you if you simply want to prepare for the holidays. No major cleaning or decluttering, the Countdown is a streamlined path to an organized holiday season.
What if none of these plans feels right for you? Some readers who celebrate alternate holidays or who have other unique circumstances develop their own plans. Other folks use more than one plan, beginning work on their homes with the Houseworks Holiday Plan, and swinging into high gear for holiday prep when the Countdown begins in October. Make these plans work for you by making them your own!
