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Finding Homes For The Gifts You Receive This Holiday Season

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2023-12-11T12:24:13-06:00December 13th, 2023|Categories: Holiday Organization|Tags: assign homes, avoid clutter, gifts, holidays, organizing process|

This is truly the season of giving! The religions and cultures that celebrate the season include Hanukkah, Christmas, and Kwanzaa, and all these celebrations include giving and receiving gifts. The gifts you receive come from those that want to show their love and appreciation. I’ve written posts in the past about giving gifts of time, service and memories that will avoid accumulating clutter. This post is about how to find homes for the gifts you receive that will also avoid accumulating clutter. This concept goes back to the basic organizing principles, in this scenario, finding and assigning homes for your [...]

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How to Stay Organized During Holidays

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2022-12-12T11:07:55-06:00December 14th, 2022|Categories: Holiday Organization|Tags: holidays, schedule, stress, task, time management, to-do list|

The holidays can be chaotic in so many ways. Because of this chaos, it’s difficult to stay organized for a typical day. Then you throw in all the things that need to be done to prepare for the festivities, and it can get really crazy. The premise to stay organized during the holidays, is that you have your spaces and time in order to begin with. If not, I encourage you to check out this blog post. It may help you to get organized as a starting point. You may have noticed that I mentioned having your spaces and time [...]

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Keeping Spirits up With The Tradition of Baking Cookies For The Holidays

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-12-15T10:04:59-06:00December 16th, 2020|Categories: Holidays, Planning|Tags: baking, holidays, kitchen, plan, traditions|

I think baking cookies is a tradition for most, if not all of the year-end holidays. This has been a difficult year to be sure, and traditions are important to keep up with to lift our spirits. And what better way to make your spirits bright than baking cookies with family or friends. This is an activity that will surely take your mind off of your troubles, even if it’s only for a short time. If it’s not been a tradition for you in the past, maybe this is the year to start a new one. Every year for many, [...]

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Give Yourself a Break

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:23-06:00December 12th, 2018|Categories: Holidays, Reduce Stress|Tags: holidays, preparations, pressure, stress, traditions|

You have my permission to give yourself a break this holiday season. Maybe if you have permission from a fellow human that has been there, and there are many of us, you will give yourself a break. That means if everything does not work out as planned, nothing will happen. The sky will not fall, the world will not end. Ok, there are some prophets that may disagree, but that is a philosophical discussion for another time and place. The holiday season is upon us and there is so much to do. It’s time for the hustle and bustle [...]

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5 Tips to Keep Your Sanity For the Holidays

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:34-06:00November 30th, 2015|Categories: Holiday Organization, Planning, Reduce Stress|Tags: holidays, planning, stress|

Image courtesy of Stuart Miles / FreeDigitalPhotos.net The holidays sometimes seem to creep up on us before we know it. We have so much to do on a regular basis that we don’t always realize a holiday is quickly approaching. I know that has happened to me more than once. Keeping our sanity during these times can be a challenge! So much to do and so little time! Things like figuring out gifts for everyone on our lists, cleaning, decorating, cooking, etc. We want our holidays to be memorable and that can cause us to put more on ourselves [...]

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Top 3 Benefits of Giving The Gift of Service

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:36-06:00December 9th, 2014|Categories: Holidays, Reduce Stress, Time Management|Tags: clutter, gift, holidays, stress|

Image courtesy of digitalalert / FreeDigitalPhotos.net Trying to figure out a gift for that special someone? We put so much thought into finding the right gifts for everyone on our lists. Whether they are naughty or nice, we want to show our love for them by presenting each one with that perfect gift. Each one of us is unique, and the perfect gift for one, may not be the perfect gift for another. There are those that have so much that adding one more ‘thing’ to their spaces may not really be a wise choice. My recommendation is to consider [...]

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Dining Rooms Are Not Just For Dining Anymore

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:36-06:00October 19th, 2014|Categories: Holiday Organization, Home Organization|Tags: holidays, multi-functional, organizing|

Fall is in the air with crisp cool air and the leaves beginning their beautiful color transformations. It’s a season of preparation for holidays and winter weather. Fall festivals provide us with the opportunity to get outside and enjoy nature before it gets too cold. Preparations on our homes interiors include getting ready to receive guests for holiday celebrations. The rooms to focus on are those that will be used for these gala events. Organizing the kitchen is important to create wonderful holiday meals, but the dining room is also an important component to serve the meals. Dining rooms can be formal, informal, and [...]

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Don’t Be Afraid Of Organizing For Halloween

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:37-06:00October 1st, 2014|Categories: Holiday Organization, Home Organization, Organizing Tips, Planning|Tags: halloween, holidays, planning, prepare, schedule, task|

Boo! Did I scare you? We are approaching the Halloween season, just having past the Autumnal Equinox a couple of weeks ago. It’s getting cooler outside and the leaves are beginning to turn colors. There’s definitely a shift in the air. And if you have kids they may already be thinking about what they’re going to wear for Halloween. This is the time to begin the planning process if you haven’t already started. Having a plan will take the guesswork out of knowing what you should do, when organizing for Halloween. Developing a plan also reduces the stress of the last minute running [...]

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Easter Holiday – Here Comes Peter Cottontail…

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2023-03-30T12:29:03-05:00April 7th, 2014|Categories: Holidays, Planning|Tags: create plan, decorate, holidays, planning, shopping|

‘Hoppin down the bunny trail… My family gathers together for each holiday, and the next one up is the Easter holiday. It’s such a fun holiday! There is of course, the religious aspect, which is what the holiday is all about. There is no connection that I could find, between the Easter Bunny and the Christian tradition of honoring the day Jesus Christ rose from the dead. In my family, the celebration continues after church with dinner, and an Easter egg hunt for the little ones. At this time of year in the Midwest, the weather dictates where the egg [...]

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‘Tis the Season’……of Giving

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:40-06:00December 2nd, 2013|Categories: Donation, Downsizing, Holidays|Tags: clutter, donate, holidays|

The holiday season is in full swing and so is the season of giving. That’s what the holidays are all about… giving. To give of one’s abundance, is the definition of giving, as shown in www.Dictionary.com. We give thanks during the Thanksgiving holiday for the abundance of blessings bestowed on us throughout the year. Charity food drives are prominent at this time, as a means to give of one’s abundance. Donation drives to give away your excess things are also in full swing. This is a good time to purge not only your things, but to have your kids go through [...]

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