Tag Archives: Holiday Planning

Let’s Blog Off: Thanksgiving Leftover’s

thanksgivingGee’s it Thanksgiving, I wonder what this week’s Let’s Blog Off topic might be about? And wow, I have never seen Rufus (aka @DogWalkBlog) so excited; his tail & ears have been perked up like you wouldn’t believe, so it is must either be about naps, going for a walk, or FOOD. I get a
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Let’s Blog Off: Reducing Stress for Thanksgiving

thanksgivingAhhh, here we go again, another Tuesday Let’s Blog Off. This week’s Let’s Blog Off revolves around “what’s your favorite part about Thanksgiving? If you have a tradition you’d like to talk about, list some things you’re grateful for, a recipe you’d like to share or an embarrassing story you’d like to get off your
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Organizing the Refrigerator & Freezer

Ahh the good ole days of Norman RockwellIn our last article, we started discussing one of the items in the Holiday Planning Checklist about “inventorying your pantry, refrigerator and freezer and stocking up on non-perishables.”  In our last article, we mainly focused on your pantry and organizing it. As promised, in this article we are going to cover the refrigerator & freezer. Organizing &
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Cleaning out & organizing the pantry

pantry organizationWow, is it really November already, with only 20 days to go till Thanksgiving? Ouch, time to break out the Holiday Planning Checklist & get going. In that checklist, we included a point about “inventorying your pantry, refrigerator and freezer and stocking up on non-perishables”, which leads to a few interesting questions. Namely, how long
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Holiday Checklist – The day after

who-left-the-fountain-onFirst off, we hope everyone had a great Christmas and are looking forward to the New Year. Many people will be heading out today for the annual gift exchange / returns, while plenty of others will go out shopping with all those gift cards they got.  If you have been following along with our Holiday
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December and the Winter Holiday Maintenance Checklist

DecemberWelcome to the first month of winter, which actually starts on the 21st of this month. I hope that everyone had a great Thanksgiving and are looking forward to Christmas, New Years or whichever holiday(s) you observe. Seeing everyone is basically scrambling to get ready for all the office Christmas parties, Christmas Eve dinner, Christmas
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Thanksgiving Day – A quick moment for safety & to say thanks

thanksgivingLess than a week to go & most of us will be sitting down and enjoying a nice meal with family and friends. On this day of thanks, let us all hope that at the end of the day were not thanking our lucky stars that it was not as bad as it could have
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Holiday Checklist – Getting ready for the Holiday’s

XMas-LightsPart 2 – Getting ready for the Holiday’s While most of us love the holiday season, we can easily do without the crowds, the commercialism, and the associated pressures. While we have some of these items listed in our Monthly Maintenance Checklists, we designed the following Holiday Checklist specifically to help you organize your life
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De-cluttering your home – getting ready for the Holiday’s

XMas-LightsPart 1 – Getting ready for the Holiday’s It’s that time of year, in a few days many of us will be celebrating Veteran’s Day, followed by Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years while others may be celebrating Hanukkah or Kwanzaa. As if travelling to visit family or having family come visit you was not stressful
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November – Monthly Home Maintenance Checklist

NovemberWelcome to the last full month of fall. Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years are just around the corner and most of us have probably gone from looking forward to the leaves changing colors to hoping they will just hurry up and fall off already. *** Article updated for 2011 – originally posted in 2009 We
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