September 25, 2011

Reap the Harvest

91 daysThis is a good day to experience the beating heart of fall. Picking apples right off the tree makes a delicious activity. Even if there are no orchards nearby, most places have a pumpkin patch or a corn maze within driving distance. Pumpkins can be propped on your porch and cornstalks can be tied to columns or a door frame to give your house a festive fall look.

Countdown to ChristmasToday’s Countdown to Christmas Challenge is to do a web search for a place to take the family where you can experience the bounty of fall. If necessary, call a friend and get a recommendation for some local farms. Pack a picnic (because you know you will most likely run into either lunch or dinner), grab a blanket to spread out on, and head out for a day in the country!

100 Days to Christmas 2011 eBookStarting today and lasting until Friday, September 30, get $1 off the PDF purchase of 100 Days to Christmas 2011 eBook.  Simply use the following coupon code in the checkout to get $1 deducted automatically from your purchase:  MERRY1OFF

 

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September 23, 2011

Falling for Fall

93 daysFor those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, today is the first day of fall (or autumn, if you prefer). This is the season that takes us right up to the doorstep of Christmas.

Countdown to ChristmasToday’s Countdown to Christmas Challenge will not involve your holiday planner. Go down into your basement or up into your attic and rustle up your fall decor – anything pumpkin, harvest, or apple-themed is fair game – to be festively placed around your home. If it seems your seasonal decor is all mixed together, today would be a great day to locate some large boxes or tubs and label them with Fall Labels* or your own. Simply print out the labels and then tape them to the boxes, or print the labels onto adhesive-backed paper for convenience.

Visit the 100 Days to Christmas Facebook page and let us know what fall project you tackled today!

* Available as a download in the 100 Days to Christmas 2011 eBook.  Members to ListPlanIt.com can print or download Holiday Budget Planner in Holidays & Occasions as a worksheet for your Christmas budget.

This week, we are excited to be giving away a Kindle 3G plus a gift card from Amazon for $5 toward the purchase of our 100 Days to Christmas 2011 eBook.

Today is the last day!  You have several ways to enter to win : 1) leave a comment here and tell us why you’d like a Kindle,

2) tell your friends & followers about 100 Days to Christmas on Twitter (it’s easy to do with our share buttons below) and leave a comment here linking to your Twitter handle (be sure to follow @100Days on Twitter, too),

3) subscribe to 100 Days to Christmas‘ RSS feed using a reader or by email (and get our daily posts delivered straight to your inbox) and leave a comment here,

4) blog about 100 Days to Christmas, then leave a comment here linking to your post.

5) follow our page on Facebook and tell our entire community that you are going to participate in this week’s giveaway by leaving the following message on our Facebook wall, “Christmas would come early this year if I win a Kindle 3G from http://100DaystoChristmas.com!”.

One of each of these per day please. You have until Friday, September 23 at 6 pm EST to enter.

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September 14, 2011

Two Days to Countdown

Today, there are 102 days to Christmas. That is not such a scary statement when you realize that when you start early, you have plenty of time to make this a meaningful holiday season. We’re not just about Christmas around here. There are several major and minor holidays between now and Christmas Day. All of them require some amount of forethought and at least a bit of planning.

Consider this a test run for Friday. We’ve never used InLinkz as our link tool before, and we just wanted to make sure that it works properly. For this link up, we want to know what September means to you. Fall is around the corner. September is such a great month: fewer bugs, cooler temperatures, and more color beginning to show in the trees.

Link a September photo or a September blog post here. Just for fun and just to connect before the big day.

 


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