Where I live in Georgia, the high today is 89 degrees and it hard to begin thinking about the holidays. While Labor Day is barely past and Halloween is still to come, it is not too early to begin preparing for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s.
“So, I am beginning to think about the holidays even though I am still wilting from the heat when I go outside. I am not alone. People all over the country and the world are beginning to think about the Christmas season this week.
Why?
This is the first week of the Holiday Grand Plan. Have you heard of it?
The Holiday Grand Plan is this awesome fully downloadable program. The Holiday Grand Plan gives you small, bite size chores to perform each week between now and New Year’s. It helps you get your house in order and by order I mean clean, really clean. It helps you plan your Christmas goodies, gift purchases, and meals. It helps you cook less in December so you can enjoy the season that much more. It helps you be less frazzled and harried leading up to the holidays so you can truly enjoy the spirit of the season.
The plan has Yahoo! groups for discussion if you want to share your Christmas planning with others on the net. The yahoo group has an annual Christmas Card Swap so you can give and get cards with other HGP participants from around the world.
You can download the checklists, planner pages, calendars and more from the official site. Best of all, there is no cost to participate in the program.
Probably the most difficult part of the plan is putting it in action and actually doing the work. Do you really want to be thinking about Christmas cards right now in September? Probably not. But, do you really want to be stressed over getting the cards out along with a shopping list a mile long the last couple of weeks of December? Definitely not!! Taking baby steps now makes Christmas so much more enjoyable and gives you so much more time to feel the spirit of Christ in your heart during the Christmas season.
The Holiday Grand Plan by Organized Christmas works for me!
Do you have any secrets that make your Christmas and holiday season more enjoyable? If so, feel free to talk about them in the comments below. Finally, be sure to check out Shannon’s site for other Works for Me Wednesday participants.
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5 responses so far ↓
1 mom2fur // Sep 3, 2008 at 3:54 pm
This is so cool! Thanks for the link. I bookmarked it and will check it out soon!
2 Sharon // Sep 3, 2008 at 10:17 pm
I’m so glad you said something! I wanted to do this a while back and didn’t stick with it. We just moved back to where our family is living, and at least some of Christmas is at my house! Yikes!!
3 Stacie@hobbitdoor // Sep 4, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Thanks for sharing! What a fun site!
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4 Elementaryhistoryteacher // Sep 5, 2008 at 7:38 pm
This is such a neat idea. I’d love to have one Christmas when I feel as if I have a handle on everything.
Please, please submit this post to the Georgia Carnival. I’d like to include it.
5 Kim // Sep 8, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Alright! Glad to see I’m not alone in my love for “Organized Christmas.” I started using their forms a couple of years ago, and I love ‘em.
It might SEEM overly-ambitious to start planning for Christmas in September, but I am so much less stressed and able to enjoy the holidays by using this system. Parties don’t plan themselves!
It’s also a lot easier on my budget to pick up gifts across the months, spending a little here and a little there on just what I want, instead of waiting until the last minute, feeling desperate, and going on a mad spending spree.
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