Holiday Planning Countdown

We only wish we could add extra minutes to your clock.
Instead, Tracey Nelsen with My Heart and Home provides a Christmas countdown checklist.

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6 Weeks to Christmas:

Christmas Gift List – Wants, Needs & Sizes

Prepare Christmas Card List (update for the new year)

Begin Making Party Plans (Start Guest list and make to-do lists)

Make sure family pictures are done for Christmas cards

Confirm all travel plans

Hang outside lights

Pick one room per week to deep clean (start with guest bedroom)

5 Weeks to Christmas:

Send all packages to Service Men

Decorate the house for Christmas (dust and clean the shelves you are decorating)

Trim the tree

Begin collecting recipes and make menus for parties

Add another room to your deep clean rotation

4 Weeks to Christmas:

Begin reading a Christmas story each night until
Christmas Eve

Send letter to Santa

Make gingerbread houses

Create shopping lists for parties

Add another prominent room to your deep clean rotation

3 Weeks to Christmas:

Send Christmas Cards

Letters should start coming back from Santa!

Deep clean children’s bedrooms

2 Weeks to Christmas:

12 Days of Christmas begins

Deliver neighborhood gifts

Christmas parties begin

Make sure all gifts are purchased and wrapped

1 Week to Christmas:

Prepare ahead and freeze appetizers and desserts

Week of Christmas:

Stuff Stockings

Remember cameras, batteries, tapes or DVDs for Christmas
Eve and Christmas morning

Deep clean bathrooms

The Recovery Week:

Evaluate Christmas parties and traditions and record favorite ideas

List improvements and cautions for next year

Purge old items and make room for the new

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My Heart and Home is a local organizing company that provides quality products created by women, for women! They offer workshops, community classes, unique products and supplies all created to help women achieve their potential.

For more information, visit www.myheartandhome.com or call (801) 447-2047.

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