Stress-Free Winter Prep Sheet

Holiday Preparation Worksheet

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This holiday preparation worksheet will help make your holidays stress free

…..read more and get my holiday preparation cheat sheet below

The Holidays are Coming! 

 

We got our first snow of the year today. Snow always reminds me of my childhood home and the upcoming holidays. Back then, we just knew how to get things ready for the holidays. Yet, remembering everything off the top of our heads can be a bit more challenging nowadays. Seems like we pack a lot of info in there. A holiday preparation cheat sheet will help make your holidays stress-free and give you more free time to spend with your loved ones. Who wants to try to remember those key steps we need to do right around November 1st each year?

Holiday Preparation Worksheet

Preparing for this glorious time of year doesn’t have to be stressful if we start now! For us, it involves two key things:

1. Winter Prep Checklist, and a
2. Holiday Meal Plan-a healthy plant-based menu

We not only need a holiday preparation worksheet, but we also need a “Winter Prep Checklist”

 

Go through and declutter your winter wardrobe

Since we live in a cold climate, we switch out our wardrobes at this time of year and at the beginning of Spring. I keep our warm wardrobes in storage downstairs in damp-free, clean storage containers. We pull all of them out and go through each item and decide if they need washing or need to be donated or thrown away and then make a list of anything that I need to go shopping for now. Who wants to go shopping at the last minute for a winter coat. I don’t want to as you will pay full price and maybe make a rush decision.

 

Winter-proof your home

We caulk all of the windows and around the doors to eliminate any air leaks. Check your insulation and replace/add as needed.  You will be glad you did as you can save money on your utility bills during those long winter months. Head on over HERE to find more helpful info on how to winterize your home for the Winter.

Winter-proof the yard

Some of you may remember my awesome perennial Butterfly Garden post back in the Spring. That just doesn’t come back each without proper steps taken in the Fall.

1. We first check our irrigation system for any leaks and then have it winterized.
2. We clear all annuals from our entire yard and bag and /or compost.
3. Clear brush and debris from your flower or vegetable beds and mulch them with hay or mulch.
4. We mulch around any delicate perennials too so that they survive the Winter months.
5. We empty all flower pots clean them and store them for planting in the Spring.
6. Now it’s time to mow the grass short-at about 1 inch. Let the clippings fall as they mulch and protect your lawn during the dead of Winter.
7. Keep the leaves mowed regularly and let them fall as well as they too provide protection for your lawn during the Winter

 

I have to chuckle a bit and add one of my old podcasts (my first one) here for a bit of humor and cool organization tips. Hey, we all start somewhere. Have you started a YouTube channel?

 

Prepare Your Kitchen

My next post will focus entirely on cool tips on preparing your kitchen for the holidays. I will include great info on preparing healthy holiday main courses and side dishes. Meanwhile, check out my cool awesome post on reorganizing your pantry HERE.

Once you get these tasks “under your belt”, prepping the house for guests and menu planning will be much, much easier!

I love to offer free organization planners to my members. Enjoy this free holiday menu planner. I use it myself and swear by it. Meal and menu planning was never so easy!