Holiday Planner Seven Week Planner
Seven weeks Before: Begin planning and organizing. Make menu plans, compile gift lists, plan holiday photos, order cards, and buy tickets for upcoming holiday performances/events.
Six Weeks-Plan menus for dinners, baking, and Christmas/New Year’s morning.
Five Weeks: Order cards, design digital cards, order stamps, and have addresses and address labels organized and ready. Begin decorating if you are a beforeThanksgiving kind of celebrator!
Four Weeks: Enjoy the Thanksgiving Season and pause for a season of thankfulness. Shop on Black Friday if you choose, but it’s unnecessary, with cyber deals everywhere. Consider shopping small businesses on small business Saturday! Start decorating!
Three Weeks: Finish all decorating so you have time to enjoy!
Two Weeks: Finish Shopping and begin wrapping.
One Week: All wrapping finished, and religious services bake items for the season to avoid storage. (If you have baking storage and freezing down to a science, bake way before the season begins.
Day Before: Sit back with a cup of cocoa, enjoy religious services, and be ready for Santa and Rudolph to visit!
*This calendar is for a traditionally celebrated Christmas Day; certainly, adjust to your family’s traditions and religious observances such as Hanukah, Kwanza, and others.
