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Looking to keep the jingle in the holiday season this year, but still celebrate with style? Try these tips from ParentDish.com to prune holiday expenses while keeping the joy.

We love this one:

Discover holiday magic. Think of low-cost ways to celebrate. Let your children sleep under the Christmas tree. On a snowy evening, fill a thermos with hot cocoa, bundle up and take a walk to look at decorations around the neighborhood. If it's too cold to head outside, make a CD of your family's favorite holiday music or find a low-cost arts-and-crafts project that will keep your kids busy for hours.

Sound familiar? That's because our own Organized Christmas editor, Cynthia Ewer, was among the experts interviewed for the story. Check it out:

Trim the Tree, Trim Your Budget

Ready to read more about saving money on holiday gifts? Catch our editor Cynthia Ewer's quotes in the current issue of Womans' Day!

Interviewed as part of the issue's No-Stress Holiday Guide, Cynthia shares ideas to simplify gift-buying and avoid late-night wrapping frenzy--and don't miss tips from other media sources to help simplify, organize and celebrate the holiday season.

This week, while you're waiting at the supermarket checkstand, turn to pages 73-74 and check out our very own Organized Christmas editor and author of the Christmas Countdown!

The Web site elves at Organized Christmas have begun to stir. Site updates ahead!

In the days to come, we'll be spiffing up our Web site to prepare for the coming holiday season. As we have since 1998, we'll be bringing you the Web's best holiday get-organized plans, Christmas planner forms, gifts, crafts and traditions.

Don't be alarmed if the site has a few loose ends during this process. We promise: we'll have it all spiffed up and shiny by Christmas in July!

Thanks for your patience!

--The OC Web site Elves

Labor Day weekend ahead! School bells are ringing, football fills the airwaves and September looms. Will the holidays be far behind?

Sure, you're dreaming of the perfect Christmas--then you open your eyes to reality. Looking around the house, it's hard to imagine how to cut the clutter, manage fall cleaning and prepare for Christmas all at once.

How will you bring the current state of domestic chaos into holiday readiness: clean, organized, prepared?

It's time to kick off the Houseworks Holiday Plan! Week by week, we'll deep-clean, declutter, and prepare for the holiday season in small, sustainable bites.

Along the way, we'll create a personalized Christmas planner to simplify the holidays--and online HHP communities provide motivation, inspiration and fun.

The fun starts Sunday, August 31! Will you be ready?

Houseworks Holiday Plan