2 Things to help get Holiday ready

Okay, holiday talk the day after Halloween? Am I crazy? No. Am I already decoarting? Also no. But I am starting to think about gifts and Holiday prep. Here are two things I am using this year.

The first, I’m quite jazzed about, it’s a FREE app called Santa’s Bag. You can add people to your gift list, enter gift ideas individully for each person, change the status of those gifts-to buy, ordered, wrapped. You can designate stocking stuffer, enter the price and it keeps a running total for you buy person, you can enter where you hide the present. It’s wonderful, user friendly, intuitive, there is a paid version, but I don’t even know what that would have becasue it already has everything I want. Up until now I’ve used and Excel spread sheet, but this has usability and visual appeal that helps my chaotic brain. So far, loving it.

The second, I really like, I would change that to LOVE if the author updated it a little bit, but I have been using it for the last 5 years and it works great to keep me on task. I’m the kind of procrastinator that needs a deadline, I am also better at getting things done if someone else selects the deadline. I know sad. This 13 week stress free holiday series sets you up for the last 12 weeks of the year including Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years, plus the week following to wrap everything up. It breaks all of the holiday pieces into easily obtainable weekly holiday chunks. I am sure many of you don’t need this because you are already hyper organized, but my scattered thoughts LOVE it. I go to the site at the beginning of the 13 weeks, add all of the tasks to my calendar, and adjust to coustomize it to my needs. It’s great, reminds you to order holiday cards, and then a few weeks later it reminds you to actually mail those holiday cards. Ahh deadlines, thank you. Take a look see if it’s for you, it has brought me a lot of sanity over the last few years.

Stree Free Holidays Challenge from Household Management 101

BYYYYYEEE!