491 Your Holiday Game Plan – How to Have the Least Stressful Holiday Season of Your Life

491 Your Holiday Game Plan – How to Have the Least Stressful Holiday Season of Your Life

491: Your Holiday Game Plan

How to Have the Least Stressful Holiday Season of Your Life 

Kathi and her favorite holiday celebrant, Roger Lipp, are bringing all the best tips for our least stressful holiday season ever and equipping us with a game plan to carry it out. So much of preparing our house is about being comfortable in our own space. There are some key things we can do to declutter and make the holidays less stressful including

  • Determine the priority places & spaces to be decluttered
  • Make a help list 
  • Don’t leave room for unmet expectations 
  • Get a membership to Clutter Free for Life

    The Christmas Project Planner: Super Simple Steps to Organize the Holidays

     

    Christmas—whether you really love it, secretly dread it, or fall somewhere in between—shows up the same time every year, as unavoidable as your aunt’s fruitcake.

    But this season, don’t stress your “elf” out. Be ready with this amazing planner designed to help you get a handle on the holidays. Stay organized (and sane) when you put expectations aside and choose to focus on the things you truly want to do during Christmas.

    You’ll be amazed at what you can accomplish with just a little more organization and less obligation. The simple projects in this book will help you stay on schedule so you can spend more time enjoying your friends and family instead of frantically trying to cobble Christmas together at the last minute (again).

    You can do this! Let clutter-free queen Kathi Lipp show you how. Order your copy of The Christmas Project Planner here.

     

     

     

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    Meet Our Guest 

     

    Roger Lipp

    Roger is a productivity and quality engineer for a Fortune 50 company.

    Roger helps teams reach their full productivity potential by teaching them the practical and simple steps to reach their goals. Roger and his wife, author Kathi Lipp, teach communicators how to share their message through social media and email marketing.

    He and Kathi coauthored Happy Habits for Every Couple with Harvest House Publishers.

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    489: 10 Ways to Prep for a Clutter Free Holiday Part 2

    489: 10 Ways to Prep for a Clutter Free Holiday Part 2

    489: 10 Ways to Prep for a Clutter Free Holiday

    Part 2

    Kathi Lipp and her partner in decluttering and everything else, Roger Lipp, are back to continue their great discussion on to how to celebrate the holiday season without sabotaging your Clutter Free journey.  Are you unsure of how to approach the holidays without adding to your or your loved ones’ clutter? Kathi has 10 incredibly helpful tips just for that. She and Roger shared the first five suggestions in part 1. Listen in now as they share the last half of their insightful list of suggestions for celebrating the season clutter-free. Kathi explains the value in:

     

    The Christmas Project Planner: Super Simple Steps to Organize the Holidays

     

    Christmas—whether you really love it, secretly dread it, or fall somewhere in between—shows up the same time every year, as unavoidable as your aunt’s fruitcake.

    But this season, don’t stress your “elf” out. Be ready with this amazing planner designed to help you get a handle on the holidays. Stay organized (and sane) when you put expectations aside and choose to focus on the things you truly want to do during Christmas.

    You’ll be amazed at what you can accomplish with just a little more organization and less obligation. The simple projects in this book will help you stay on schedule so you can spend more time enjoying your friends and family instead of frantically trying to cobble Christmas together at the last minute (again).

    You can do this! Let clutter-free queen Kathi Lipp show you how. Order your copy of The Christmas Project Planner here.

     

     

     

    Links Mentioned:

    Let’s stay connected

    To share your thoughts:

    Leave an honest review on iTunes. Your ratings and reviews really help and I read each one.

    Subscribe on iTunes or subscribe to our newsletter now.

    Meet Our Guest 

     

    Roger Lipp

    Roger is a productivity and quality engineer for a Fortune 50 company.

    Roger helps teams reach their full productivity potential by teaching them the practical and simple steps to reach their goals. Roger and his wife, author Kathi Lipp, teach communicators how to share their message through social media and email marketing.

    He and Kathi coauthored Happy Habits for Every Couple with Harvest House Publishers.

    Transcript

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    #654 Declutter Your Life: 100 Spaces, 15 Minutes Each

    #654 Declutter Your Life: 100 Spaces, 15 Minutes Each

    Hey there, friend! In this episode of Clutter-Free Academy, Kathi Lipp and Tonya Kubo help listeners kick off 2025 with a practical plan for a clutter-free home. Kathi shares her personal goal of decluttering 100 spaces in her house this year and how she’s breaking it...

    #653 Say Goodbye to Insomnia: How Decluttering Can Reboot Your Rest

    #653 Say Goodbye to Insomnia: How Decluttering Can Reboot Your Rest

    Hey there, friend! In this eye opening episode of Clutter-Free Academy, join Kathi Lipp as she speaks with Dr. Vicki Kasper to explore the powerful and surprising link between clutter and sleep. They discuss the science behind rest, how a clutter-free environment...

    488: 10 Ways to Prep for a Clutter Free Holiday Part 1

    488: 10 Ways to Prep for a Clutter Free Holiday Part 1

    488: 10 Ways to Prep for a Clutter Free Holiday

    Part 1

     

    Kathi Lipp is here with her partner in decluttering and everything else, Roger Lipp, to talk about how to celebrate the holiday season without sabotaging your Clutter Free journey. Are you unsure of how to approach the holidays without adding to your or your loved ones’ clutter? Kathi and Roger give five insightful suggestions to celebrating the season clutter-free, including:

     

     

    Be sure to catch next week’s episode when Kathi and Roger will share the last half of their advice for a Clutter-Free holiday.

    The Christmas Project Planner: Super Simple Steps to Organize the Holidays

     

    Christmas—whether you really love it, secretly dread it, or fall somewhere in between—shows up the same time every year, as unavoidable as your aunt’s fruitcake.

    But this season, don’t stress your “elf” out. Be ready with this amazing planner designed to help you get a handle on the holidays. Stay organized (and sane) when you put expectations aside and choose to focus on the things you truly want to do during Christmas.

    You’ll be amazed at what you can accomplish with just a little more organization and less obligation. The simple projects in this book will help you stay on schedule so you can spend more time enjoying your friends and family instead of frantically trying to cobble Christmas together at the last minute (again).

    You can do this! Let clutter-free queen Kathi Lipp show you how. Order your copy of The Christmas Project Planner here.

     

     

     

    Let’s stay connected

    To share your thoughts:

    Leave an honest review on iTunes. Your ratings and reviews really help and I read each one.

    Subscribe on iTunes or subscribe to our newsletter now.

    Meet Our Guest 

     

    Roger Lipp

    Roger is a productivity and quality engineer for a Fortune 50 company.

    Roger helps teams reach their full productivity potential by teaching them the practical and simple steps to reach their goals. Roger and his wife, author Kathi Lipp, teach communicators how to share their message through social media and email marketing.

    He and Kathi coauthored Happy Habits for Every Couple with Harvest House Publishers.

    Transcript

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    #654 Declutter Your Life: 100 Spaces, 15 Minutes Each

    #654 Declutter Your Life: 100 Spaces, 15 Minutes Each

    Hey there, friend! In this episode of Clutter-Free Academy, Kathi Lipp and Tonya Kubo help listeners kick off 2025 with a practical plan for a clutter-free home. Kathi shares her personal goal of decluttering 100 spaces in her house this year and how she’s breaking it...

    #653 Say Goodbye to Insomnia: How Decluttering Can Reboot Your Rest

    #653 Say Goodbye to Insomnia: How Decluttering Can Reboot Your Rest

    Hey there, friend! In this eye opening episode of Clutter-Free Academy, join Kathi Lipp as she speaks with Dr. Vicki Kasper to explore the powerful and surprising link between clutter and sleep. They discuss the science behind rest, how a clutter-free environment...

    Clutter Free Holiday Prep: Spring Isn’t the Only Time to Tackle Cleaning

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    Spring isn’t the only time to tackle cleaning. As we face down holiday prep for the busy season ahead, tackling some of the things we do in our annual Spring Fling in the Clutter Free Academy Facebook group are a great idea. In this video from spring, Kathi’s talks about her famous 3 Questions that you need to ask to decide if something has earned the right to live in your space. There are a variety of reasons we hold onto things and with her usual grace-filled manner, Kathi talks about making the hard calls to live free. Let’s clear out some clutter and make way for the family fun and festive season we are about to enter. Watch now: