Week 1 - Planning and Paperwork
Week 2 - Calendar and Creativity
Week 3 - Me & Mine
Week 4 - Close to Home
Week 5 - House Room
Week 6 - Wardrobe
Week 7 - Bed & Bath
Week 8 - Family Space
Week 9 - Public Space
Week 10 - Cooking Space
Week 11 - Food Storage
Week 12 - Dining Space
Week 13 - Entryway
Week 14 - Storage
Week 15 - Final Clean
Week 16 - Nearly There
Week 17 - Celebration
Week 18 - New Year’s
This Week's Focus:
Guest Room or Bonus Room
Making ready for guests this year? Whether your home includes a designated guest room, or you bed down visitors in a multi-use area, it's time to prepare for holiday house guests.
This week, we'll check on all the items we need to extend hospitality, and clean and organize any areas devoted to visitors. As we go, we'll consider what makes a welcoming home, and find ways to make our guests feel cherished and comfortable.
In holiday prep, we'll begin thinking about holiday decorations, make a first-of-the-month status check, and begin decorating for Autumn. Try these resources to jump start your holiday home:
This Week's Household Checklist:
This Week's Holiday Prep Checklist:
What are you planning to do this week?
Week 2 - Calendar and Creativity
Week 3 - Me & Mine
Week 4 - Close to Home
Week 5 - House Room
Week 6 - Wardrobe
Week 7 - Bed & Bath
Week 8 - Family Space
Week 9 - Public Space
Week 10 - Cooking Space
Week 11 - Food Storage
Week 12 - Dining Space
Week 13 - Entryway
Week 14 - Storage
Week 15 - Final Clean
Week 16 - Nearly There
Week 17 - Celebration
Week 18 - New Year’s
This Week's Focus:
Guest Room or Bonus Room
Making ready for guests this year? Whether your home includes a designated guest room, or you bed down visitors in a multi-use area, it's time to prepare for holiday house guests.
This week, we'll check on all the items we need to extend hospitality, and clean and organize any areas devoted to visitors. As we go, we'll consider what makes a welcoming home, and find ways to make our guests feel cherished and comfortable.
In holiday prep, we'll begin thinking about holiday decorations, make a first-of-the-month status check, and begin decorating for Autumn. Try these resources to jump start your holiday home:
This Week's Household Checklist:
- Declutter, clean and organize guest areas. Whether your household has a dedicated guest room or a simple fold-out sofa bed, declutter, organize and clean the area you use to host guests.
- No guest room or guest space? Take a bonus week, tackling another area of the household or catching up on earlier assignments.
This Week's Holiday Prep Checklist:
- Status Check! Review the progress of the House & Holidays Plan on the first day of the month. If you're falling behind, adjust goals to a more realistic level.
- Begin planning holiday decorating. Check magazines, library books and the Web for décor inspiration. Use a room-by-room décor planner to coordinate décor plans.
- Inventory holiday decorations. Make a quick inspection and determine what you have to work with. Will you need to replace or upgrade décor items this year? Make a note on the décor inventory form
- Declutter before you decorate for autumn. Do your visual field a favor with a quick decor declutter. A clean sweep now makes holiday decorations all the more impressive!
- Decorate for autumn. Choose "generic" décor items. Nearer to Halloween, add a few Halloween items which can be removed easily after the holiday. Come November 1, swap them out for Thanksgiving decorations.
- Schedule house guest stays. Grab calendars and check in with family about travel plans. Will you host house guests this year?
- Make a guest room "pamper basket". Guests feel welcomed when the guest room or guest area boasts a simple basket of toiletries and personal care supplies. Add a coffeemaker and beverage supplies for a "bed and breakfast" touch.
- Continue working on Christmas cards. Divide the Christmas card list into five sections. Complete one section this week. Goal: to be finished writing, signing and addressing cards by November 15.
What are you planning to do this week?