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JANUARY’S GOAL: Put Away, Plan, & Purge

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🌲❤️🌲For the month of January the goal is to “Put Away, Plan & Purge”.

PUT AWAY

🌲When it comes to putting away, a great tip I learned from my mother-in-law is to take pictures before you put away. This will make decorating for Christmas 2025 much easier. You can store these pictures in a binder designated for “Christmas”. I will talk more about that binder in another post.

🌲If you have extension cords, outdoor timers, and garlands that you have multiples of and want specific ones to go back in a certain spot this Christmas, then take a couple minutes to label them with the location you want them to go. This has been a huge time saver!

PLAN

🌲Making a “Christmas Planner” and plan will help you to have an organized Christmas this year. This can be lots of fun to put together and you can put as much (or as little) detail into it as you like. Have fun!🤗

🌲TIPS FOR MAKING A CHRISTMAS PLANNER:

  • Use a 3 ring binder
  • Get tabbed dividers. Some of the categories you may want to include are: food, gifts, calendars, decorating, Christmas card list, entertaining / parties, travel, “Thank You’s”
  • Find printable templates for a Christmas Planner on Etsy. Most of them only cost a few dollars. This isn’t necessary but it makes it super easy to quickly put your Christmas Planner together and make it look really festive!🌲

PURGE

🌲I know it can be hard to get rid of Christmas decor, but sometimes having too much Christmas decor makes it hard to see your most important, special items. As Cassandra from the ClutterBug says, “When everything is visual, nothing is visual”.

🌲Use the questions above to go through your Christmas decorations and if your answer is “No” to one or more of the questions, then you might want to consider getting rid of it.