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Organising your holiday/ Planning your trip

Thursday, March 13th, 2008
If you’re a reader of my or Suzanne’s blog, you’ll know that we’re meeting up in Scotland in two months’ time *squeal* ;)

Suzanne wrote a GORGEOUS post on how she’s organising for this upcoming trip and I printed off her post to gather some ideas for my own planning.

Why reinvent the wheel, right?!

My system is very simple – we use one of these plastic envelopes and put everything in there, like e-tickets, booking confirmations, things to see and do, etc. That plastic envelope goes with us and fits nicely in the lid of my suitcase.

Once we’re travelling however, I like one notebook to serve as a journal and finance tracker. At the back I write down everything we spend and in the front, I jot down some notes of what we do each day. It really helped the last time when I was blogging the photos from Thailand and Malaysia.

When I read about Suzanne’s cute notebook, I got all excited and went out and bought yet another notebook!

Then I got home and realised I had this one:


So this is what I’m using.

This one has sections for everything under the sun – itinerary, people met, events and places visited, articles purchased, expenses, embassies, name and address, hotel details, etc, etc. Even if you don’t have one like this, you can do what Suzanne did and get one with lots of dividers or as I usually do and use post-it flags to make your own sections.

See that yellow post-it sticking out of the notebook? That’s me customising my notebook even further.

Who else has a trip coming up? How are you organising it?

Dec 2006 – organising challenges

Monday, December 18th, 2006


Here are this month’s challenges

Week 1 – Baking stuff, pots and serving dishes
It’s the first week of December!

Organise all your pots and baking stuff so that you’re ready for all the cooking and baking you’ll do later this month.You don’t need two sets of measuring cups or spoons. If you have some old muffin pans, you can use them to plant seedlings or organise a drawer.

If there are serving dishes you’ve had for 5 years but never use, cook or bake something in it (casserole/ lasagna) and give it away as a present.

Take charge tip – Double up on some baking recipes and give the baked goods away as gifts. Arrange biscuits or muffins on some plates you don’t like any more, cover with cling wrap, tie a red bow and there you have it – an inexpensive, useful gift.


Week 2 – Put up decorations and the Christmas tree & finish wrapping gifts
Decorate your house and put up the Christmas tree. Hang Christmas cards from a piece of string or attach to the side of your wall unit.

Finish wrapping your gifts and writing out gift tags. It’s always a good idea to keep a few spare gifts around in case someone pops by and you don’t have anything for them.


Week 3 – Finalise your menu and finish buying food
This is more important if you’re hosting Christmas dinner.

Finalise your menu. If you’d like people to bring a dish, phone them now. Check your pantry and buy last-minute ingredients and drinks. Download your shopping list at http://takechargesolutions.org/downloads.html

If you’re having Christmas dinner elsewhere, make sure that you know what the host wants you to cook.

Merry Christmas!


Week 4 – Sort out your planning tools


All these challenges (plus more) have been packaged into an e-book called Organise your Home. Get your free copy now.

Holiday Survival Guide

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

Hi all

Kimberly Fulcher just sent out a free e-book called Holiday Survival Guide. That ties in nicely with 3 of our challenges this month, so here is the link.

You can download it here.

Enjoy and have an organised week.
Marcia

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