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This holiday season, use your credit card points to purchase gift cards for those on your gift list.  You have the points, now use them!  It may make purchasing gifts just a little less painful. The other benefit of purchasing gift cards?  You are giving a clutter free gift.  Plus, you don't have to wrap anything.  Simply place the gift card into a Christmas card, sign your name and you are done.  Some ideas for clutter free gift cards: Gas card Restaurant card Itunes (my personal gift of choice!) Now, go check your points balance with your credit cards and get those gift cards ordered.  Christmas will be here before you know it!

Okay, I will admit it.   I have begun decorating for Christmas.  I could not help myself. In the process of taking the decorations from storage, I decided to let some of them go.  Here is my criteria for what went: 1.  I no longer liked it.       Our tastes change over the months and  years. 2.  It was a gift from someone and I never liked it.      It really is the thought that counts.......enough said. 3.  I no longer wanted to store it, maintain it or go all out decorating.      You only have the space you have.  I am not willing to take up as much room storing my Christmas items as I have in the past.   I used to really go all out and decorate to the point where it looked like Christmas threw up in our home.  At this point, I just don't have the time or quite honestly the energy to go all out.  Simple is so much better! I will be...

If you are feeling frantic, and stressed out over the fact that Christmas Eve is exactly one week from today, then it's time to cross some things off your to do list.  You know the ones - take your pet for grooming before company arrives, cross it off.  Fido will be fine and you will have one less thing to do and your guests will never notice.  What I want you to do, right now, is look at your holiday to do list - be it a mental list or physical list, and cross off those things that really aren't that important once you think of it. If you are still scratching your head over what to get someone - here are some really simple ideas: Send an egift certificate from The Container Store http://gan.doubleclick.net/gan_click?lid=41000000034105116&pubid=21000000000237711 Just enter the amount, send a personalized message, select a design and it is emailed to your recipient.     2.    A gift certificate from Simply Organized good for ...

Did you notice the Christmas countdown counter to your right?  I thought you would.  Just a subtle reminder that even though we have recently begun the Fall season, Christmas will be right on it's heels.  So the time to start planning is now. From now until Friday, October 22nd, I will be sharing a weekly holiday planning tip so that you can start and end the holiday season on a stress free, organized note. On October 22nd, I will be presenting a Holiday Helper teleclass to get your holiday planned out and organized.  So, here's my first tip that you can use right now.  Ready?  Take a look at your Christmas card list and make any changes or additions needed.  Were there any births during the past year, moves, or deaths?  Meet any new friends that you want added to the list.  Do it now so that when it comes time to buy Christmas cards and stamps,  you will be all set!