Are you a Christmas planner type or do you like to wing it?<\/p>\n
I am moving into major Christmas planning mode this week and couldn’t be more excited.<\/p>\n
I’m thrilled to be visiting extended family for Thanksgiving and, this year, I will be bringing Santa’s sleigh with me and sharing gifts one month early there so that my gift-receivers can enjoy their gifts all throughout Christmas. (How’s that for a hint, kids?)<\/p>\n
Don’t get me wrong, here. As much as I can be a planner on some things, I do not have a great record on all things.<\/p>\n
Typically I send Christmas cards in February, (Not that I intend to. It just happens.) but this year I am hoping to get them out sometime in December. November would be ideal. But I don’t want to get too crazy, here.<\/p>\n
In the past I have used the FLYLady’s Holiday Control Journal<\/a> for getting ready for holiday parties, baking, decorating, gift-giving and more. It’s a free download, so click over, check it out and print the pages that will work for you. I love her Holiday Gift List, as it has boxes to check for for purchasing, budgeting, wrapping, shipping… and reminds you to think clutter-free.<\/p>\n This year I wanted a few different pages than the FLYLady offered, so I checked out my friend Jessica’s site, Life as Mom<\/a>, and her awesome Christmas in July<\/a> feature from this summer. She has even more excellent ideas and resources, there, too.<\/p>\n From Jessica’s site I found a link to Organized Christmas<\/a> where I hit the motherload of all FREE Christmas organizing printables. <\/strong>OH MY GOODNESS! This site has a printable for every detail you might want to consider. Check out this index of Christmas Planner Pages<\/a>… There is even a Holiday Values planning sheet<\/a>! And did I mention every printable is free?! I think I might be in planning heaven!!<\/p>\n Swing by these great resources and let me know what you think.<\/p>\n Before you go, though, tell me: Are you a planner or are you a wing-it type? And, either way, what are some of your secrets to success… and enjoyment?<\/p>\n This post is linked to Works for Me Wednesday.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Are you a Christmas planner type or do you like to wing it? I am moving into major Christmas planning mode this week and couldn’t be more excited. I’m thrilled to be visiting extended family for Thanksgiving and, this year, I will be bringing Santa’s sleigh with me and sharing gifts one month early there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4569"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4600,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569\/revisions\/4600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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