It's a Grand Plan for Christmas organizing: an 18-week program to clean and organize the entire home for the holiday season. Welcome to the Holiday Grand Plan!
Written by Katie Leckey with contributions from the Prodigy Homelife Get O group in 1992-1993, the Holiday Grand Plan is the Web's oldest Christmas holiday planner.
Holiday Grand Plan 2008 begins on Sunday, August 31, and continues throughout the holiday season. Based on Katie's companion Cleaning Grand Plan, the Holiday Grand Plan combines holiday prep, home organizing and cleaning components.
During the autumn weeks, the Holiday Grand Plan breaks down all the tasks needed to clean and organize the house and prepare for the holidays. Week by week, we'll organize and deep-clean a single area in the home, and tackle a short list of holiday chores. Spreading out the preparations means you'll reach the season calm, centered and ready to celebrate.
To prepare for the Holiday Grand Plan, use the calendar at left to browse each week's assignment for cleaning and holiday prep. Free printable calendars and cleaning checklists make it easy to plan your progress and organize each week's goals.
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Fat Tuesday and Ash Wednesday have come and gone, and Peter Cottontail is on the way. Will you be ready for a happy Easter?
Get organized with Ginger B. Schenck's Easter Countdown! Adapted with permission from the OrganizedChristmas.com Christmas Countdown, the Easter Countdown breaks down holiday jobs into simple weekly checklists. Working week by week, you'll greet Easter Sunday with a Spring-bright smile.
The 2008 Easter Countdown begins Sunday, February 10:
Hop Into Easter with the Easter Countdown
Aimed at scrapbookers (but pretty enough for gift-giving), blogger The Fine Art Of Rambling shares instructions for a luxe Christmas planner.
Yes, it's crafted from a base of paper bags, but oh, that scrapbooking bling! Check out the illustrated how-tos and bring a little eye-candy joy to getting organized for Christmas:
How To Make A Christmas Planner
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Oh, la--to have such talent. This is a lovely scrapbooker's Christmas notebook, and well worth the visit. Let the flash filmstrip unfold to see all the wonderful pages in GwenLaFleur's 2005 Holiday Organizer:
A Scrapbooker's Christmas Notebook
It's that time of year: we're building Christmas notebooks or holiday organizers to help us plan and prepare for the holiday season.
Need inspiration to make your notebook pretty? Check out this Flickr set! Pretty and practical notebook covers make it a delight to get ready for Christmas:
Christmas Notebook Covers
Scrapbookers take note: a Christmas notebook tour of a stunning example of the scrapbooker's art. Shared as a flash slideshow, this beautiful Christmas planner by TwoPeas member AuntiNi is both beautiful and functional.
This Christmas Planning notebook could be used for the Holiday Grand Plan, the Housework Holiday Plan or the Christmas Countdown:
AuntNi's Christmas Planner
A nice peek inside a pretty Holiday Grand Plan notebook from blogger Practically Pink. A long-time follower of the Holiday Grand Plan, she's got holiday prep down pat ... and pink!
Pinkology's HGP Notebook
If a picture tells a thousand words, there's a long novel here: laurakaye's Holiday Grand Plan binder tour!
Wondering how to set up a Christmas notebook? She's leading the way with this page-by-page walk-through:
laurakaye's Holiday Grand Plan Binder
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