It’s Week 2 of our 4 Weeks to an Organized Christmas series!

This week we are all about planning. 

I am very excited about a couple of planners that I’ve put together for you.  If you are an email subscriber, check your inbox for an email from me titled ‘Your Free Christmas Budget Planners’.

If you aren’t, head over here to sign up for my free email newsletter and you should receive an email right away with some lovely little gifts from me to help with your Christmas Gift budgeting.

Update:  I put together a post with tips on how to use the Budget Tracker and how I made my own Pocket Planner.  Head over here to check it out!

This week we are all about Christmas planners and printables. 

Let’s start off the week with a list of FREE planners and printables that I’ve found around the web.  Print your favorite now or pin this page for later when you are ready!

Printable Planners:

Christmas Gift Budget Tracker and Pocket Planner

20 Thanksgiving and Christmas Printable Planning Pages

Christmas Planner Printable Tags

Printable Holiday To Do List

Printable Gift Ideas Pocket Planner

Printable Christmas Your Way Planner

Organized Christmas Printable Planner

Collection of printable planners and apps

Printable Decor and Labels:

Printable Advent Calendar Cards

31 Free Printables for Christmas Decor

Make It Handmade Printable Labels (Ok – that’s 11, actually. :))

Tomorrow I’m going to share some of very own printables and planners with you – come on back! 

Find the entire 4 Weeks to an Organized Christmas Series here. 

It’s the end of Week 1 of our 4 Weeks to an Organized Christmas series!

This week we are tackling our Christmas decorations. 

Just as a little recap, here is what my Christmas Wrapping Station looked like a few days ago:

I guess you could call it more of a Christmas Wrapping Pile.

Now before the Big Reveal – a little disclaimer:

I have a 17 month old son who delights in creating chaos right now, so the only location that would be safe from his little clutches is my basement. (Or my closet – but that’s a little crowded.)

So if the pictures look a little dark and you’re wondering why my walls are a funky shade of green – that’s why.  It may be ugly, but it’s my new Happy Place.

What we are most concerned about is function, people.  And THAT is why I am GIDDY about my new wrapping station.

Ta-Da!

This is the exact same spot where my Christmas wrapping stuff was located before – little did I know what a difference a few bins and totes would make!  (In fact, I spent a total of $12 on this.  Honest.  Give it up for the Dollar Store!)

If you’re like me, you constantly play the “Where oh where did my scissors/tape/ribbon/etc go?” game when you are wrapping.  I’m hoping this shower caddy will answer that question for me!

Totes.  Labels.  Doesn’t get much simpler than this!

Remember those gazillion gift bags I told you about?  Here they all are in an easy to access bin!  I also actually matched the lids to the bottoms of my gift boxes and threw away any that didn’t have a match.  What a concept!

I’m pretty sure that taking an hour or so to make this happen is going to make my entire holiday season less stressful and more fun.  I feel ready to take on the world – or at least Christmas. 🙂

After all – there ARE only:

How about you?  Did you find time to organize any of your Christmas stuff this week?  Tell all!  I’d love to hear about it over on the MLC Project Facebook page.

Ready for Week 2 of our 4 Weeks to an Organized Christmas series?  This week we are all about Christmas Planners and Printables.  Can’t wait!

It’s Day 4 of our 4 Weeks to an Organized Christmas series!

Today I started ‘Project Let’s Get Organized’.  Here’s a little peek: 

I’m excited – I have big plans for the rest.  Stay tuned!

It’s Day 3 of our 4 Weeks to an Organized Christmas series – and we’re organizing our Christmas stuff!

I went shopping today.  

Bet you can’t wait to see what I have planned for all these goodies.

Stay tuned – tomorrow I’ll give you a peek!

p.s.  Most of these items were from The Dollar Tree.  The Dollar Store Diva trained me well!

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It’s Day 2 of our 4 Weeks to an Organized Christmas series!

This week we are tackling our Christmas decorations. 

And I totally know why you’re reading this.  You can WAIT for me to reveal the hot mess that my Christmas supplies are in, can you?  You want to know if it’s really as BAD as I say it is, huh?

Well, ok then.  Here you go:

Just kidding.

I had you there for a minute though, didn’t I?

See what I did there? Now my REAL mess is going to make me seem like Martha Stewart in comparison. (Right?)

Anyway.

Here goes:

This is the section of my basement where I keep my wrapping paper, gift bags, tissue paper and supplies.

Once upon a time, there was a system here.  (And seriously, guys.  I avoided close-ups just to maintain some of my dignity.)

My Christmas decorations are in these boxes:

The fact that my decorations are actually stored in matching totes with lids makes me feel a little better about myself.

But don’t let the labels fool you.  My guess is that 2/3rd’s of them are inaccurate.

Now don’t you feel like we are better friends?  I only share this kind of stuff with people that I really like.

If you have some before pictures you’d like to share, I’d love to see them over on the Facebook page.  Then we’ll totally be BFF’s.

Stay tuned – tomorrow I go shopping!