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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