Holiday Organizing Tips

Having some trouble keeping your holiday organized? It can get a bit overwhelming with all the shopping, wrapping, cooking, and traveling you’ve got to do. Fortunately, with just a few simple steps, you can be organized and handle the holidays with ease.

Before you even start shopping, make a list of everyone you have to buy for. Put a dollar amount next to each one—this isn’t a reflection of how much you value that person but a budget for each of them.

For example, you’ll probably spend more on your children than you will on your co-workers. It’s important to set a budget so you don’t spend way too much on gifts.

Once you’ve decided how much you plan on spending on each person, write down a list of gift ideas. Try to think of at least one thing for each person. This will make it much easier when shopping.

You won’t be going up and down each aisle looking for things, nor will you be going in and out of every store in the mall. You’ll have an idea of what you want and where to get it.

Mark things off your list as you shop (so take the list with you), and once you make a purchase, don’t change your mind. If you see something you think the person would like better, only buy it if you can give the already-purchased gift to someone else. Otherwise, you’ll end up either returning a lot of items or blowing your budget.

Once you get everything home, it’s helpful to put a sticky note on each item so you don’t get confused as to whom it’s intended for. You can also group gifts in bags or boxes.

Once you start wrapping, be sure to put a name tag on each gift as it’s wrapped. If you wrap several at once, you might get them mixed and put the wrong name on gifts!

These tips should help you organize your Christmas shopping and gift-giving. By taking the stress out of what is one of the more stressful parts of the Christmas season, you’ll give yourself more time to enjoy everything else.

Thanksgiving Decorating

Thanksgiving is going to be here before you know it. Are you ready? If you haven’t started thinking about how you’re going to decorate for the day, now’s the time. Here are a few different tips on Thanksgiving decorating.

If you’ve put out any fall decorations, keep them. Most of them work very well for Thanksgiving. In fact, if you want, you don’t have to use any Thanksgiving decorations.

A fall tablecloth, napkins, and place mats will look right at home with your turkey. Fall wreaths and flowers also work very well for Thanksgiving.

If you do want to add to this décor, you don’t have to do a lot. A few small turkeys or pilgrims are fine. Remember, Thanksgiving isn’t like Halloween or Christmas. Most people don’t have much, if any, actual Thanksgiving decorations. You don’t have to go overboard with decorating.

Kids can help with the holiday décor, too. You can help them make hand turkeys or turn pine cones into little turkeys for a centerpiece. This makes your decorations more personal and gets your kids involved with one of the holidays that doesn’t have a lot for kids to do.

Finally, let your food be the décor. A golden brown turkey looks amazing, but you can do a lot with other dishes, too. Use decorative bowls, arrange finger foods so they’re presented more, and look at food colors when setting out dishes.

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