With a little organization and planning, you can have a great summer!

The Busy Mom’s Guide to Summer Survival includes a variety of charts and checklists designed to help busy moms keep their kids and house in order this summer!

• By planning and using a daily and summer schedule, the kids will adjust to summer vacation with ease. Keeping them busy is essential to a smooth flowing day.
• Creating and following a weekly cleaning/jobs schedule, will ensure that your house stays clean and orderly (well as clean and orderly as a house with kids can be:) Kids of all ages can help with chores so mom is not overwhelmed.
• Also, the checklists will allow the kids to complete their jobs without mom having to stand over their shoulder! Yeah!
• You will have these checklists forever! You can save them to your computer and print them out to keep in your housework notebook or your Household Planner.

Busy Mom's Guide to Summer Survival

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Moms, Are you Ready for Summer Vacation?

Summer Survival #1 ~ Tips for Maintaining Mom’s Sanity

Summer Survival #2 ~ Keeping the Kids in Order

Summer Survival #3 ~ Keeping the House in Order

Summer Survival #4 ~ Getting it Together & Organized

Looking at trends in the toy industry can be valuable for an eBay seller… it helps to know what kind of inventory to keep an eye out for – and you can bet that the most popular toys this year will likely follow these trends. This is true for new and used toys.

Following are some trends that outline what buyers are paying attention to this year and are useful to keep in mind when shopping for inventory.

1. Eco-Friendly Toys

“Green” is IN… it is everywhere and toys are no exception! Toys that are environmentally friendly are expected to be very popular this year.

2. Budget Friendly

The economy is all the talk – but that doesn’t mean parents aren’t going to be buying toys for their kids this Christmas. Retailers are already gearing up to offer some great prices on their toys this year.

3. Realistic Toys

I think it started with Baby Alive years ago… but it has become a huge trend these past few years and looks like it will continue. These are toys that respond to touch and interact with the child somehow.

4. Classic toys

Many parents are turning to toys that they had when they were young.

5. Movies

There are always a few movies that are released during the year that have a very timely DVD release right before the holidays. Look at what movies did well this year – and keep an eye on the merchandise available for that movie… usually they do well on eBay.

KNOW which toys are selling this holiday – the biggest selling season of the year – with the Holiday Toy Guide.

http://www.holidaytoyguide.com/

Jenni from the Holiday Toy Guide just put Another new free report on her website and I think you’ll like it.

This report is only available TODAY – so go get it right now!

It is a short report showing you how to find what is selling on eBay for 2009.

You can get the 5 Keys For Researching eBay For Hot Items here:

http://www.holidaytoyguide.com/

Enjoy!

Selling toys on eBay for the Holidays has become quite profitable for lots of sellers or maybe you already sell on eBay and could use some tips on choosing what toys are going to be the hot sellers this selling season.

Jenni from the Holiday Toy Guide just put the new free 2009 Toy Trends report on her website and I think you’ll like it.

You can see it here:

http://www.holidaytoyguide.com/

You’ll like it because it shows you an easy way to know what some of the most popular toys are expected to be this holiday season.

Enjoy!

Now it’s time to get it all together and get it organized!

Some of your charts and lists can be kept in your Household Planner or in a folder or binder. Be sure to keep all of your originals in a safe place too, so you can use them again next summer!

Some of your charts and lists you will want to display in a place where the whole family can see and access them.

As you can see here, I have a narrow space in a hallway where I put up my Summer Survival cork board. I found the cork board for $10 at Menard’s, it was a generous sized 2.5 ft. x 4 ft, I did have to trim it, but it works great!

You can display whatever you want here; you may not need the same charts for your family as I need for mine. You can pick and choose what works best for you!

From top to bottom, here is what I have displayed:

• Things to Do this summer
• Older Kid’s Job Chart Calendar
• Healthy Snacks
• Weekly Summer Job Schedule
• Daily Schedule
• Healthy Snack Request List
• Detailed Job Descriptions (these are in page protectors so they can be used with dry erase markers and hanging on a tack)
• Summer 2009 Calendar
• Little Kid’s Job Charts

Good luck to you all in Surviving Summer Vacation this year!

And again, all of these templates can be found in The Busy Mom’s Guide to Summer Survival!

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