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Ep. 104: Holiday Prep!

Simple

Tsh Oxenreider

Education

4.3 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Well, it’s officially the holiday season—American Thanksgiving was last week, Advent starts a week from this Sunday, and Christmas comes along soon after. How to enjoy it all without spiraling into overwhelm?

That’s the topic of this week’s episode. Stephanie and Tsh share how they do the holidays in their own homes—both do their best to keep things simple, but they do things pretty differently. They talk about gift-giving, card-sending (or not), easing into decor vs. doing it all at once, how to honor Advent without going nuts, and more.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Let’s keep it that way without feeling the need to do All The Things.


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0:00.0

It's the simple show. You've got episode 104.

0:07.3

Hi, I'm Tish Doxan writer.

0:08.9

And I'm Stephanie Langford.

0:10.2

And on The Simple Show, we talk about saying no and yes to the right things.

0:13.3

And in this episode, we're talking about what we say yes and no to when it comes to holiday

0:17.8

preparations and how we keep things simple and sane but still special and

0:22.7

meaningful. And it's insane that it's the holidays already. I cannot believe we're talking about it.

0:28.6

And it's just nuts. I really can't believe it. But one of the things that I did this year,

0:34.5

I've talked about this before, many times actually online about Advent and how much

0:37.9

I love it and how meaningful it's become to me. But everything out there is so I feel complicated.

0:44.4

They add a lot of, when I say they, I mean like devotions or readings or just books with ideas

0:50.6

and what to do with your family. It feels very overwhelming to me. So I decided to create an advent planner for my family just from scratch, my own. Like, you know what? I'm going to sit here and do this. And then as I did it, I thought, you know what, I bet other families might like this. So right now I'm making it available to you guys listening and to friends and family. When you go to the art of simple.net slash advent, you will find the

1:12.2

planner there. It's not going to be up all the time, but it is right now at the time of this

1:17.6

recording, and it will be usually during the holidays. The other thing is just to remind you about

1:22.7

the gift guide that just went out last week. And that's at the art of simple.net slash gifts.

1:29.0

It's our annual ethical shopping guide for the holidays where we highlight brands that do good

1:34.0

stuff and make good stuff.

1:36.0

And we recommend doing your gift giving there.

1:40.1

All right.

1:41.1

So, Stephanie, we talked a bit on The Simple Show about Christmas and Advent in the

1:48.1

holidays, particularly episodes 49 and 51, which I'll link to in the show notes, which I talked with

1:54.2

Aaron, our other co-host about what we do. And then I actually talked with you. I don't know if you

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