The holidays are fast approaching and here are some things that you can do this week to start prepping for the holidays
🌿Deep clean appliances like the fridge, freezer, oven, dishwasher, etc. & make sure everything is in working order
🌿Make sure small appliances like the crockpot, blender, food processor, etc. are also in working order
🌿Make & freeze what you can ahead of time
🌿Buy non- perishable items
🌿Place a grocery delivery for next week
🌿Try new recipes you plan on using now
The holidays are fast approaching and here are some things that you can do this week to start prepping for the holidays
🌿Start to polish silver or take it to get polished
🌿Take linens to dry cleaners to press
🌿Order anything you need for thanksgiving: food, florals, essentials, etc.
🌿Order holiday cards
🌿Take inventory of your wrapping supplies
🌿Plan your holiday outfits
The holidays are fast approaching and here are some things that you can do this week to start prepping for the holidays
🌿Finalize halloween night plans & meals
🌿Clean & organize your garage, attic & basement
🌿Pre order & begin meal prepping holiday meals
🌿Loosely meal plan & prep the next 2 months of nightly meals
🌿Schedule a house deep clean before the holidays
🌿Do a wardrobe switch for the winter
As a professional organizer and personal concierge we are preparing for the holidays all year long and once October hits it is full force into the holiday season for clients. The holidays are fast approaching and here are some things that you can do this week to start prepping for the holidays.
🌿Finalize halloween night plans & meals
🌿Clean & organize your garage, attic & basement
🌿Pre order & begin meal prepping holiday meals
🌿Loosely meal plan & prep the next 2 months of nightly meals
🌿Schedule a house deep clean before the holidays
🌿Do a wardrobe switch for the winter
The holidays are fast approaching and here are some things that you can do this week to start prepping for the holidays
🌿 Book all the things you need to book. Reservations, self-care, medical, dental, photography, holiday events, etc.
🌿Update your addresses
🌿Buy Stamps
🌿Clean gutters, windows & filters
🌿Get your ducts & HVAC serviced
🌿Book Holiday Help! Organizers, decorators, babysitters, assistance, etc.
As a professional organizer and personal concierge we are preparing for the holidays all year long and once October hits it is full force into the holiday season for clients. The holidays are fast approaching and here are some things that you can do this week to start prepping for the holidays.
🍂Buy Halloween candy
🍂Get your Halloween costumes
🍂Plan For Fall / Halloween / Dia de los Muertos activities, parties, & teacher gifts
🍂Start utilizing your holiday binder and keeping track of all things holiday
🍂Print blank calendar pages for Oct, Nov & Dec and put any important dates on there
How are you preparing for the holidays?
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THE HOLIDAYS ARE RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER and they will be here before you know it. We are almost already fully pre-booked for the 2023 holiday season. Many clients have hired us to help 2-4 hours once a week from October - December to help with various holiday tasks and relieve some holiday stress. If you are interested in this, please reach out and we would love to help you.
As many of you know, we do a TON of gifting wrapping for residential and commercial clients where we come to your place of work and wrap presents during the holidays. This is great for company culture, helps relieve stress during the holidays and is perfect for you and your team. Please reach out for more information. We have several companies already pre-booked for gift wrapping services for their employees.
It has been almost 2 full years since we regularly updated the Eco Modern Concierge blog. You did see one update in 2022, but that was because it was scheduled in 2021and posted in 2022.
I am Amy, the owner of Eco Modern Concierge. Since 2021 I have had 2 children. I currently have a 2.5 year-old boy and a 9 month old girl. A lot has happened in the past several years and I can't wait to see what the coming years hold. You can read all about me on the Eco Modern Concierge about page on our website. I started Eco Modern Concierge in 2005 while going to college and when I went to grad school I went full-time with the company. Since then we have grown and seeing so many changes in our company. There have been many ups and downs the last 18 years. Eco Modern Concierge focus' personal assistant and professional organizing. We specialize in all things, but are experts in move management and holiday concierge services.
Reach out if you have any questions or would like to book us to help you guys.
At Eco Modern Concierge we specialize in all things holiday from decorating to wrapping and every single thing you can think of in between. As professional organizers and concierges in Houston, TX it is our job to make sure we have some of the essentials on hand.
Cart: I like a simple cart that is mobile, so you can move it from room to room.
Cart Trays: These are great for organizing the inside of your cart.
Wrapping Paper Storage Bin: This is my favorite wrapping paper storage bing because it holds tall wrapping paper rolls.
Regular Scissors: I like to use regular scissors for cutting paper products.
Fabric Scissors: I like to use fabric to cut fabric products like ribbon.
Elf Cutter: This is a relatively new product that I got last year and it does work great once you get the hang of it.
Regular Tape: Regular tape is great for wrapping up packages.
Double Sided Tape: Great for heading seams on wrapping paper
Super Sticky Tape: for things that are hard to stick to like glitter paper.
Wrapping Paper: An essential.
Tissue Paper: You can wrap gifts with it, use it as box stuffing or bag stuffing.
Boxes: Needed if you are wrapping clothing or items that are better in a bag.
Bags: If you don't want to wrap presents.
Tags: Needed so you know what gift goes to whom.
Ribbon: The perfect accessory for any gift.
Bells, greenery, berries, pinecones, etc.: Needed if you want to dress up any package.
Hot Glue Gun: Makes putting on flowers and package accessories easier as it can cover imperfections and knots made by ribbon.
Straightener: This is a tip, use a straightener to straighten wrinkled ribbon.
Slap Bracelets: Great for keeping wrapping paper rolls and some ribbon rolls together.
Clear Twist Ties: These are extremely helpful when attaching bows or accessories to packages.
Bow Maker: If you need help making bows, I suggest getting and using a bow maker.
Glue Dot Roller: Great when when you a little something to stick to help you wrap gifts.
Wrapping Paper Cutter: Perfect for helping tear paper especially if you have a small amount.
Gardening bag: This is the bag I currently use to store everything because it has lots of pockets.
Gloves: A necessary to not cut your hands and arms up when decorating especially with live tress, garlands and wreaths.
Double sided tape: A gift wrapping essential.
Regular tape: Another gift wrapping essential.
Glue Dot roller: Perfect for gift wrapping and helping various things stay in place.
Super sticky tape: Great for glitter wrapping paper or things that really need to be stuck down.
Super glue: To fix broken items.
Scissors: I have talked about these scissors for a long time and really like them.
Fabric scissors: To only be used used on fabric.
Velcro: Perfect to wrap cords and hold various things in place.
Command hooks in varying sizes: We use command hooks ALL the time with various holiday projects. We love using the small, regular, gold / silver, cord wraps, etc.
Nails: You never know what you will need to nail down. They are great for hanging various things like garland, wreaths, etc.
Tacks: We use tacks for all kinds of things like securing ribbon to windows, securing wreaths to doors, etc. We use various colors like white, green, silver and gold.
Floral wire: This is a MUST in our bag because we use it to tie garland on banisters, rails, hang wreaths, etc. We usually carry green and silver wire.
Zip ties: These are necessary for your holiday bag and we use them most often to tie garland to banisters and securing lots of garland parts together.
Clear twist ties: perfect to secure various things like bows on decor, gifts, etc.
Beaded flexible ties: I like that these have notches and you can use them for various things like lights, garland, etc.
Flexible twist ties: These come in green and white and perfect to secure cords or various things that need to stay together.
Garland ties: These green pine ties are also great for tying garland in various places.
Fishing wire: Perfect for hanging things like wreaths when you don't want string to show from afar or to use to hang other decor items.
Banister clips: Great for securing various things to the banister
Wreath picks: These are wonderful to have on hand because they help fill in areas of wreaths & garland that have fallen off through the years, great to add to presents, etc. Here are pinecone picks and berry picks.
Mallet: We always keep a mallet on hand to secure nails, put stakes in the ground, fix things, etc.
Ornament hooks: You can get standard in expensive ones or we love these decorative ones we saw at Target this year that come in gold and silver.
DW40: A necessary to have on hand always.
Batteries: A necessary to have on hand during the holidays because you never know what remote, decor item, toy, etc will need a battery.
Wreath suction hangers: Great when putting wreaths or hanging items on glass windows, doors and mirrors. They come in various weight holds 10lbs and 20lbs.
Wreath hangers: We keep these on hand because we never know when a client may need one.
Magnetic wreath hangers: These are wonderful for hanging wreath and other items. Please the magnets are usually pretty strong.
Slap bracelets: Helps keep wrapping paper and various ribbon rolls together.
Beeswax lubricating compound: Great for using with scores,
Stick um: Candle adhesive, which is great for keeping candles in place inside of holders.
Straightening iron: To unwrinkle ribbon and various holiday decor.
Hot glue gun: Great for putting embellishments on presents, wreaths, garlands, and various other holiday decor.
Since I did the question thing on Instagram stories several people said they wanted holiday decor tips. Below are various holiday decor tips we have learned through the years. This is by no means all of them, but hopefully some of them can help you.
