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Preparing for the Holiday Season

Restrict My Choices, Please

Ron Ashkenas | Posted 12.22.2009 | Business

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Ron Ashkenas

While the abundance of consumer choice is most exaggerated during the holidays, it is really a year-round issue. We add more and more choices on the assumption that each consumer has very specific, unique, tastes and needs.

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New Year's Resolutions And Time

James M. Lynch | Posted 12.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Quit Smoking, New Year's Resolutions, Holidays, Habits, Change, New Year's Eve, Time, Personal Growth, Preparing for the Holiday Season, New Year's Resolution, Work-Life Balance, Resolution, Love, Bad Habits, Self-Help, The Balanced Life, Happiness, Living News
James M. Lynch

As a life coach I recommend that my clients, rather than doing 'iffy' resolutions, take on their schedule and how they spend it. This could have more of an effect on your life than all the resolutions you've ever made.

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Tips To Stop The Holidays From Becoming A Karmic Turkey!

Debbie Robins | Posted 12.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Family Challenges, Holidays, Snap Judgments, Hurt, Expectations, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Family, Living News
Debbie Robins

Each year after I'd left the nest, I worked hard to make my peace with their behavior so I could enjoy our next vacation together. Sometimes it worked. Sometimes--often--it didn't.

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Take Tuesdays to Task and Volunteer!

Ben Mangan | Posted 12.15.2009 | Impact

Read More: Holiday Season, Volunteering, Giving Back, Service, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Holiday Season Commentary, Impact News
Ben Mangan

Since I hate complaining without offering solutions, I'm providing ideas each day this week on how we can revive values that truly make the holidays special. Spend Tuesdays finding a way to volunteer for a cause that moves you.

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The Recessionista's Holiday Pick List: Taking The Spending of Christmas Past out of Christmas Future

Mary Hall | Posted 12.14.2009 | Style

Read More: Recession Shopping, Budget Shopping, Holiday Shopping, Recessionista Gift Guide, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Frugal Fashion, Holiday Guft Guide, Style News
Mary Hall

Despite the economic downturn, shoppers are still faced with the challenge of getting ready for the holidays, entertaining, and playing Santa for their children.

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Legacy Writing For The Holidays

Rachael Freed | Posted 12.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Holidays, Family-Rituals, Traditions, Rituals, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Legacy, Legacy-Writing, Memories, The Inner Life, The Future, Living News
Rachael Freed

Holiday rituals and traditions connect families over the generations. Communicating our memories and stories can revitalize this year's holidays, and even encourage family healing and forgiveness.

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Parentless Parents: Do You Put On A "Happy Face" For The Holidays?

Allison Gilbert | Posted 12.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Holiday, Holidays, Holiday Season, Grief, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Motherhood, Fatherhood, Parenting, Loss, Mothers, Death, Fathers, Grieving, Parents, Living News
Allison Gilbert

'Tis the Season to be Jolly, right? I see reminders everywhere that I should be happy! But what happens if the month of December serves not only to remind you of all things Merry -- but of all the people you've lost?

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Mom, the Holidays Are a Time to Chill

Peggy Drexler | Posted 12.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Motherhood, Holidays, Martha Stewart, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Lesbian Mothers, Non-Traditional Families, Living News
Peggy Drexler

Children know family when they see it. The idea that "traditional" families are the only source of healthy children and a happy holiday and that Mom bears ultimate responsibility for both is as much a fantasy as Santa Claus.

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Secrets To Getting Through The Holiday Season

Karen Luniw | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Holidays, Holiday Season, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Tips for Holiday Season, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Holiday Season Commentary, Family, Thanksgiving Tips, Living News
Karen Luniw

How does one get through the holiday season unscathed by the family biting sarcasm, the off-hand negative comments about your love life or lack of employment? Those unsaid, yet thick feelings of disapproval?

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Thanksgiving Turkeys: How They Get From The Farm To Your Dinner Table

businessinsider.com | Gus Lubin and Lawrence Delevingne | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Holiday Season, Peta, Eating Matters, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Thanksgiving, Business News

It's turkey time. Millions of Americans will dive into the big bird next Thursday, smothering it with gravy or cranberry sauce or both. Many will al...

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Holiday Shortcuts

One For The Table | Posted 11.19.2009 | Style

Read More: Thanksgiving, Holiday Season, Making Gravy, Turkey Gravy, Homemade Gravy, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Style News
One For The Table

Contrary to popular belief, you don't need a whole turkey to make gravy. However, you must slow-roast turkey to get good gravy. Here's a tip for avoiding all that gravy anxiety.

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Five Steps to an Organized (and Joyful) Holiday Season

Carolyn Rubenstein | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Organizing, Holiday Season, Living News, Perseverance, Overwhelm, Living, Carolyn Rubenstein, Aby Garvey, Huffington Post, simplify101, Holiday Planning, Holidays, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Living News
Carolyn Rubenstein

If you're already feeling stretched thin (and not feeling too joyful about it), then it's time to step back and use a few organizing strategies to make a new plan.

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Gifts To Get Your Coworkers That Avoid Paralyzing Awkwardness

Michelle Madhok | Posted 01.05.2009 | Style

Read More: Gifts for Coworkers, Office Gifts, Awkward, Gifts, Shopping, Coworkers, Holiday Season, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Office, Office Etiquette, Style News
Michelle Madhok

Office gift-giving is a little dicey this year: second-year banking analysts aren't getting $100k bonuses, some companies are closing, others are downsizing and lots of people seem sad.

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Six Ways to Cut down on Waste During the Holidays (and Avoid the Ugly Sweater)

Mairi Beautyman | Posted 01.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Holidays, Chanukah, Preparing for the Holidays, Green Living Tips, Christmas, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Environment, Green Living, Christmas Shopping, Green News
Mairi Beautyman

Recycling wrapping paper and cards can drastically reduce your holiday waste and generate a big dose of nostalgia.

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How to Make Your Own Holiday Candy

Karen Leland | Posted 01.03.2009 | Style

Read More: Candy, Food, Holiday Season, Cookbook, Cooking, Chocolate, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Style News
Karen Leland

I'm a fan of candy and not ashamed to admit it, but I've always done the crunching and let someone else create. This holiday, I decided it was time to step into the confectioner's shoes.

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Seven Ways to Bitch for Charity

Sharon Glassman | Posted 01.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Charity Christmas Gifts, Holiday Parties, Holiday Season, Complaining, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Bitching, Sadd, Donating to Charity, Suze Orman, Emotional Uplift, Holiday Stress, Holiday Humor, Philanthropy, Giving, Alternatives to Traditional Gifts, Ways to Survive the Holiday Season, Spirituality, Living News
Sharon Glassman

As money mistress Suze Orman says, you can't teach abundance if you're broke. And you can't teach merriment if you're feeling drecky. Owning your bitches is the first step to disowning them.

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Traveling Home for the Holidays

Jodi R. R. Smith | Posted 12.19.2008 | Home

Read More: Holidays, Travel Tips, Jodi R R Smith, Mannersmith, Thanksgiving, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Modern Etiquette, Snl, Travel, Etiquette, Thanksgiving Travel Tips, Manners, Home News
Jodi R. R. Smith

While traveling over the past few months, I have had my toothbrush case opened and toothbrush carefully inspected. As if I would use it again after those dirty gloves had touched the bristles!

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Hospitality Checklist for Holiday Hosts

Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 12.11.2008 | Style

Read More: Houseguest, Holidays, Travel, Humor, Happiness, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Holiday Travel, Family Gatherings, Style News
Jeffrey Shaffer

Realize that, in addition to their luggage, guests may also bring along a wide assortment of lifestyle habits and personal preferences that will lodge in your memory forever.

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From Bonuses To Gifts: How To Handle The Holidays At Work

Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Office Etiquette, Office Life, Christine Hassler, Office Politics, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Tips for Holiday Season, Careerbuilder, Home News

During the Holiday season, the lines of giving and receiving gifts can become a little blurry at the workplace especially since everyone holds different positions with different salaries.

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Nigella Lawson's Favorite Christmas Recipes

Daily Mail | Nigella Lawson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

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Christmas seems to instill an unparallelled tremor of expectation in people. We seem to feel that for this crucial period we must suddenly become grea...

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"Shopdropping" Brings Art And Anarchy To The Aisles

New York Times | Ian Urbina | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Shopdropping Consumerism, Shopdropping Anarchy, Shopping, Shopdropping Capitalism, Shopdropping Christmas, Shopdropping, Christmas Shopping, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Living News

This is the season of frenetic shopping, but for a devious few people it's also the season of spirited shopdropping. Otherwise known as reverse shopl...

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Reading Robert Frost, Waiting On Christmas

John Lundberg | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

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John Lundberg

Here in Washington DC, if you aren't standing in a Starbucks, you don't see much evidence of Christmas. There are three big, beautiful wreaths hangin...

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Your Favorite Tradition: Ugly Holiday Sweaters

New York Times | ERIC WILSON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

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It may be this: Sometimes, in our hoity-toity haste to malign a tradition that is seen as perfectly normal in just about every part of the country wes...

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The True Holiday Spirit

Daphne Oz | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

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Daphne Oz

We are spiritually evolving when we exhibit internal growth and change as a direct result of how we perceive the world and our place in it.

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Gifts That Give (Like This Rat)

NEED Magazine | Liz Werner | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

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This gift guide was originally published in NEED magazine. (Full disclosure: We're kind of obsessed with this magazine at the Living section. Check ou...

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