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All of the upcoming holiday to-do's can cause chaos, confusion, and unwanted stress... if you’re not ready.
But meet those to-do’s by organizing each area of your holiday celebration and you can greatly ease the amount of stress you deal with at this busy time of year.
Start with a notebook.
- Keeping track of the details for your get togethers, holiday meals, gift giving and home organization in a simple notebook can mean smooth sailing as the holiday season starts up.
- Make sure you have dividers separating each section for quick and easy access.
- Categories may include, gifts, decorations, cards, donations (of time or goods), parties with subsections such as house cleaning, meals, entertainment.
- Use checklists to mark off things as they are done. This gives a great feeling of accomplishment.
Start planning early. Use the notebook you put together. NOW is a good time.
- To help with the extra busy times start cooking for the freezer now. Have a few meals in the freezer for when there’s not time to cook.
- Put cookie dough on the list and make sure it’s freezable. Last minute cookies come in handy for so many situations.
- Are you having a dinner party or two? Regardless of whether you are going causal or fancy use these preparation steps.
- Begin by putting to paper your dinner theme, date, and the time
- Next pull together your guest list.
- After the above particulars start planning your menu and the amount of food you will need.
- Next check supplies of tableware and get more if needed.
- And finally jot down a time line of preparing your home from initial cleaning to decorating to clean up.
What about gifts?
If you give gifts during the holidays start now by putting together a budget for what you will be spending as a whole. Then list your gift recipients and how much you will be spending on each one. Finally designate a spot in your home for these gifts. Save money this year by giving something made from your own hands. Make sure you are using your own talents and don't dive into a craft you've never tried before. This is the time to use your skills and share them with others. You can also put together coupons for your loving services instead of a store bought gift. Babysitting is always a nice coupon gift, so is a nice dinner made by your hands(we do this a lot), an item to be sewn in the future by you (or now), gardening or helping to start one. The list is endless. Be creative.
Finally Cards and Letters
- Get organized with your cards and letters now. Writing out a few each day starting (again) NOW will leave you way ahead of the game in the long run.
All in all remember if you're not having fun it's time to evaluate what you are doing and for whom. The holidays are meant to be a joyful time don't stress out over the unimportant.
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