Week 1 Focus:
Planning and Clutter
Week one is all about planning and simplifying. We're getting rid of clutter and beginning to sketch the plans for our holiday celebrations. Rule number one for this week is to store all of our planning items in our holiday organizing notebook.Planning:
To really get the holiday season started off correctly, we’ll need a plan. The best way to organize our plans, is to prepare some version of a holiday planning notebook. Set yours up with the sections that fit your celebrations. Once your holiday notebook is organized with the right forms and sections, it’s time to tackle clutter.
Clutter:
Because it gets in the way of cleaning, decorating, organizing, and entertaining, our week one focus is clutter. We’re going to use the 4 container clutter method to go through each room in our home getting rid of obvious clutter. Remember the In/Out Rule. For every item that comes into your home, you need to let go of at least one and preferably more. You’ll have a lot of things coming in to your home during the holiday season. If you want any chance of being able to move around after the holidays are over, we’ll have to get rid of things as we go.
Week 1 Tasks:
Cleaning:
Maintain cleanliness with a 15 Minute Cleanup for each room in your home.
Organizing:
Use the 4 Container Clutter Method to make a sweep through each room in your home. When you’ve finished with one room, empty the containers and trash, donate, store, or sell them before moving on to the next room.
Decorating:
Start sketching your decoration plans in your holiday organizing notebook. If you have pictures of your decorations from previous years, you have a great resource to begin planning.
Cooking:
Make a list in your holiday organizing notebook of new dishes and old favorites for the holiday meals.
Scheduling:
Sketch out your holiday plans including travel. Arrangements will need to be made soon to get the best prices and openings.
Buying:
Create a list of presents that need to be purchased or made.
Create a list of decorating supplies that need to be purchased.
Create a list of servingware and guest items that need to be purchased.
Include all of your lists in your holiday organizing notebook so that you can add to them or modify them as needed.
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