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Holiday Cruising Mission #11 Monday Clean and Fling
Your Holiday Mission for today is to Clean and Fling!!! Monday’s are Weekly Home Blessing Hour days at FlyLady and your mission is to do a 27 fling boogie as you bless your house. We are cruising through the Holidays together and every time you can get rid of some clutter is going to help you FLY! Grab one of those plastic bags that you get at the grocery store and loop it along your wrist or loop it through your belt loop on your pants, as you are going through the house just toss in the bag whatever needs to be tossed. This can be junk mail, odds and ends that have been laying around and whatever you see that is just plain clutter and needs to be gotten rid of. Do not spend hours doing this; just have the bag handy while you are blessing your home!
Holiday Cruising Mission #12 Tuesday Plan and Play
Today is Plan and Play day! This means we are going to do some Holiday Planning and then we are going to take some time out to PLAY! Grab your Holiday Control Journal and get ready to jot down some things. Last week on Plan and Play day I had you establish what your plans for the Holidays were: Where you were going to spend the Holidays, who with etc. Now that you have done this it is time to establish some menus. If you are traveling then you need to think about what you would like to bring with you to contribute if necessary. If you are hosting a Holiday dinner you need to establish what your menu will be and start a shopping list. You also need to think about if you are having guests in your home for meals other than a main Holiday meal, what will you serve, and again, establish a menu and shopping list. Don’t forget to think of all meals not just dinners. Breakfasts and lunches need to be written down and thought about. In the United States, Thanksgiving is coming and you need to include that in your Holiday planning as well. You need to be creative and adapt our Holiday Planning Missions to whatever Holidays you will be celebrating.
For today, jot down a simple meal plan and a simple grocery list. You can add to this as we go but establish something to work with and for when you go shopping you can start working off of the grocery list to being some of the non-perishable food items home and stock up.
Don’t forget to take a bit of time just for yourself today to go and PLAY! Even if you just take a 5 minute walk to look at the leaves changing colors, take time out today just for you!
Holiday Cruising Mission #13 Wednesday Anti-Procrastination Day
Today is Anti-Procrastination day and your mission is to complete your mail order, catalog order, phone order or Internet order shopping! Do not wait until the last minute to place your orders and then find that the items you wanted are out of stock, back ordered or that you have waited too long and there will not be enough time to ship them. Place your orders early so you avoid missing out on what you needed and also to allow time for errors. Take time out now to take care of this or you will have to find the time later to go shopping which then turns into impulse buying and overspending!
Holiday Cruising Mission #14 Thursday Go and Do!
Today is errand day and that means we pull out those Holiday Planners and review our list and see what things we can get accomplished!!
Review your shopping lists for gifts and see if anything that is on the list can be taken care of while you are on your errand run. Look over your grocery lists for the menus that you have chosen and you can add a few of those items on to your weekly grocery list to stock up ahead of time. Remember to consider other errands for the holidays as well, are there linens that need to be dry cleaned, clothing, coats, etc? Don’t forget about the standards to get you through the Holidays as well: toilet paper, toothpaste, napkins, paper towels and plenty of window cleaner LOL! Have to keep those sinks shiny!
We are taking babysteps to FLY through the Holidays together! One thing at a time! Have fun!
Holiday Cruising Mission #15 Friday Budget Don’t Begrudge it!
Today is desk day and your mission for today is to review your budget for the holidays and look to see how and when you can take care of the shopping that you will need to do. Not just presents, you need to take into account meals, postage, cards, wrapping supplies, decorations etc.
Be careful and thoughtful, you do not want to rack up huge credit card bills that you will be paying until spring for the holidays. Try to fit your budget around what you can afford to pay for. If this means a little less than what you would like, try to remember how great it will feel not to be overwhelmed in January when the mail comes. Set limits and try to work within them. Don’t look to buy presents that will impress, look to give gifts that will be loved. Be creative. Talk to your friends and family and see if they would like a challenge for this year. Talk about theme gifts such as an ornament or t-shirt exchange with a price limit. Look for fun and creative ways to express your love without busting your budget.
Don’t look at budget planning as a chore and as something that is depressing. Look at it as a challenge that you know you can handle! Take pride in the fact that you are planning this year in a way that you never have! You are FLYing!
Have fun and remember we are FLYing! Download your FREE Holiday Control Journal on our website.
https://www.flylady.net/i/pdf/hoj_coj.pdf
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October 29, 2023 Pamper Mission
Dear Friends,
Welcome to a brand new Zone and a brand new Pamper Mission! Today, we have a back to basics mission that I absolutely need to do myself lol. Time to shave our legs! With cold weather here, this is the one time of year that we tend to let our shaving habits take a bit of a break. What better way to pamper ourselves than with some soft smooth legs all day? I don’t mean go shave for your hubby! I want us to shave just for us!
We deserve the luxury of soft smooth legs too don’t we?
Who cares that it will grow back seemingly magically overnight! Live in the moment and enjoy today!
You deserve it!
