Will you be joining one of our holiday plans to prepare for the coming Christmas season? Get ready! Long-time readers know that creating a Christmas planner is the first step to an organized holiday season.
We've got help! Announcing a focus site from OrganizedChristmas.com: ChristmasPlanner.com!
To make easy to create and use your Christmas organizing power tool, check the site's Make It! Christmas planner section, which offers a complete guide to making a Christmas planner notebook. You'll find how-to articles and supply lists and divider ideas.
To help you fill your Christmas planner, we're gathering the Web's best free printables and resources in our new Print It! section.
Don't miss our growing list of Christmas checklists. Our Plan It! feature is designed to be a quick and easy guideline for holiday planning.
Most of all, this site showcases you: the Web's best and most creative Christmas planners. In the Tour It! section, you'll find Christmas planner tours and tutorials from the Web. Whether it's a simple Christmas notebook or creative Christmas planner printables, you'll find inspiration to guide you as you make your own holiday planner.
Welcome! It's time to get organized for the holiday season ... with a Christmas planner!
It's that time of year for Webmistress Ming (author Cynthia's techie alter-ego!) and the Organized Christmas Elves. During the hottest days of summer, we hunker down under the air conditioning, and spruce up our site for the coming holiday season.
During the next couple of weeks, expect a few loose ends around the site. Behind the scenes, Ming and Webmaster Ryan will be updating forms and features--and sometimes, the process can get a bit messy.
We'll do our best to get all spiffed and ready as quickly as possible. But until then, bear with us!
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:
Oh, this is sweet: we've had a Media BOO here at Organized Christmas! Watch this Halloween BOOing video from AZFamily.com ... and don't miss our own Organized Christmas printables in a supporting role:
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! Read more »
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!
Psst! One of our own is featured in the current issue of Woman's Day magazine.
Even if you make a list and check it twice, a few items can fall through the cracks during the holidays. What are the things you shouldn't forget as you prepare to celebrate the season?
Check the link for a Christmas checklist of often-overlooked holiday to-do items, from Cynthia Townley Ewer, editor of Organized Christmas:
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?
Summer's in full swing, and so are retailers' summer clearance sales! Smart holiday shoppers transform summer's clear-away products into bargain-priced stocking stuffers.
Check clearance aisles now for stocking-stuffer candidates. Children's gifts include jacks sets, bubble mix, outdoor toys, and jump ropes, while adults may enjoy seed-starting kits, gardening tools, barbeque accessories, hydration bottles and exercise equipment.
Labor Day weekend ahead! School bells are ringing, football fills the airwaves and September looms. Will the holidays be far behind? 
