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Halloween is Creeping Closer

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The days are getting shorter. The weather is cooling down. The kids have been back in school for 4-6 weeks now. Halloween is Creeping Closer.

Soon you’ll be seeing ghosts, goblins, and witches showing up all over the neighborhood streets.

Are you ready for the invasion?

 

Preparing for Halloween

There’s a lot to do to prepare for Halloween. Over the years I’ve written many blog posts and even an eBook about how you can prepare for the holiday.

With costumes, decorations, trick-or-treating, and parties, you want your children and yourself to enjoy it as much as possible. But it’s also important to make sure everyone stays safe. That means having costumes that are safe to wear. It also means decorations are safe for trick-or-treaters coming to your front door or party guests in your home.

Below are the links to the blog posts and the eBook on Halloween. There are lots of tips and ideas to help you have a safe and fun holiday.

Posts on Safety.

Halloween Decorating Safety Tips

Halloween Safety Tips For Children’s Costumes

 

This is a series of posts I did a few years ago.

Countdown to Halloween Series Part 1

Countdown to Halloween Series Part 2

Countdown to Halloween Series Part 3

Countdown to Halloween Series Part 4

Countdown to Halloween Series Part 5

 

Here are some posts with quick tips from the eBook.

Halloween Tips From eBook – Tips 1-2

Halloween Tips From eBook – Tips 3-9

 

This eBook has all the tips from the above blog posts and lots more. The link below will take you to a page with the Table of Contents and links to purchase it on Amazon or Barnes and Noble.

How to Have a Fun, Safe, and Decluttered Halloween

 

Are you getting in the spirit of Halloween yet?

Have fun during this SPOOKY holiday!

Janice

 

 

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New Traditions Can Relieve Holiday Stress

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December is one of the most hectic, crazy, and hopefully fun months of the year.  It’s a month filled with activities, many based on traditions.

  • Shopping for gifts.
  • Special meals and other treats such as cookies, candy, etc.
  • Putting up all the decorations to create that festive mood in your home.
  • Sending out greeting cards to everyone you know.
  • And don’t forget all the parties you feel obligated to attend at your work place, schools, friend’s parties, and family gatherings.

Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, or both there are a lot of preparations for the holidays. …

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27 Clutter Free Mother’s Day Gifts

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Mother’s Day is this coming Sunday.  It is one of the most commercial holidays in the United States. Lots of cards and gifts are given on this day to honor our mothers.

If you haven’t bought a gift yet this list will give you some ideas that she’ll appreciate. And the best part is they clutter free or mostly clutter free.  There are also many that cost little or no money at all.

Clutter Free Gift Ideas

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Take Action! The Only New Year’s Resolution That Works

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There is only one New Year’s resolution that works. That is when you resolve to take action towards your goals.

Two of the top New Year’s resolutions are decluttering and organizing your home and losing weight.  In the past I’ve made both of those resolutions many years in a row.  I slowly got to a point where I felt I was fairly organized.  The clutter wasn’t completely gone but it wasn’t overwhelming my day to day routines.  However, I did need to constantly work at it to keep it that way.

But life happens. …

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Give Clutter Free Gifts

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Christmas treeOver the years I have written several blog posts with ideas for clutter free or almost clutter free gifts for Hanukkah and Christmas.  Since my  mother and mother-in-law had mentioned years ago that they didn’t need or want  more things to fill their homes I’ve done plenty of research to come up with different ideas.

When my mother was moved to a nursing home in 2014 and we had to go through her entire house to sell it, I was glad she told us not to get her more “things”.  She did not have a lot of clutter laying around but there was still plenty of stuff to go through in a her three bedroom home. She has since passed away but I still have some things to go through. …

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