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Ready ... or Not?
Are we ready to get organized for Christmas? It's the traditional opening greeting of the Christmas Countdown. Problem is, each year when I ask the question, I have to remind myself to duck! I've seen...
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Simplify Your Holidays With A Christmas Calendar
Seldom acknowledged but often felt, time pressure creates a unique stressor during the Christmas season. Holiday events, school functions and holiday parties crowd December days; service projects,...
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Schedule Smart for Stress-Free Holidays
When you think about Christmas from a few weeks away, there’s a luxurious feeling of “plenty of time”, but as December draws near, the season’s pace quickens exponentially. Where did the time go? Time...
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Santa Savings: Make A Holiday Budget
For many families, Christmas comes not once a year, but lingers on for months! Credit card bills arrive shortly after season’s end, not to be paid off until the following summer. Grocery budgets groan...
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Set Up a Wrap and Mail Center
Wrapping gifts for the holidays? Repeat after me: "This year, I won't be wrapping gifts at midnight on Christmas Eve!" If there's a single most-underestimated holiday chore, it's gift wrapping....
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State of the Closet: Pre-Holiday Wardrobe Check
We’ve all experienced this seasonal panic: it's the night of the office holiday party and a spouse’s good white shirt has gone missing! Calm the chaos with a pre-holiday wardrobe check! Assessing the...
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Simplify Season's Greetings: Using Computers To Send Christmas Cards
As an online old-timer, I can attest to this fact: few subjects stir as much controversy as computers and Christmas cards. The questions come year after year. Should we use the computer to address the...
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Christmas Organizing Secret: Try A Tear File!
Christmas magazines and catalogs are fabulous resources for seasonal decorating, gift ideas, and Christmas recipes—but en masse, they can become too much of a good thing. When the piles avalanche from...
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Organized Christmas? Five Tips to Get Ready For Next Year
It's the day after Christmas, and every year at this time, the e-mails in my inbox tell the story: "I wish I'd found this site earlier!" Each year, I hear from scores of readers who came looking for...
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Post-Holiday Debriefing: Get Organized for Next Christmas
It's over for another year! Wild and woolly or sane and sedate, we've passed through the holiday season and into a new year. Breath caught, it's time to debrief. You know debriefing, right? The...
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Get Organized: Make a Christmas Planner
As we get ready for Christmas, we’ll be making lists (and checking them a lot more than twice!), holding discussions with spouses, children and parents, and drawing up a holiday budget. Too often, we...
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Get Organized: Create A Christmas Planning Center
When planning for the holiday season, why try to wing it, on the fly? Making lists on the go often finds them scattered in your wake, never to be found again. To stay centered as you plan the holidays...
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Before The Season: Focus On Holiday Values
What do you really want for Christmas? Our ideas may differ in the details, but most of us want much the same thing: a seasonal celebration focused on faith, family and friends. We want the excitement...
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Control Christmas Tree Clutter with an Under-Tree Storage Box
Christmas is a time of cheer ... and clutter! You'll find Christmas clutter lining each box and storage bin as you pull out holiday decorations. An ornament box spills over with hanging hooks and zip...
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Seasonal Storage Tip: Make a Holiday Stragglers Box
Christmas has come and gone ... or has it? Lights are stored, the tree is down, and holiday decor rests in boxes in the storage area, waiting for next year.Then you turn the corner and spot an...
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