FreePrintable.net: Holiday Stationery and Shopping Lists

Published: Tue, 12/13/11

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Dec. 13, 2011
Hi from Kevin at FreePrintable.net, where a busy printer is a happy printer.

Back in September I wrote here that I was trying something new: running. I wrote that I was doing the "Couch to 5K" program, which is designed to get you from sitting on the couch (which I was already pretty good at) to running 5K (which is 3.1 miles. Apparently runners like the metric system.) I'm thrilled to report that I succeeded. It took me a little more than the nine weeks that it's supposed to take, but I stuck with it and yesterday ran for 45 minutes, which at my speed works out to more than 4 miles. My wife did the Couch to 5K thing too, and to celebrate on January 1st, we're both going to participate in a New Year's 5K run through Portland.

Frankly I sort of can't believe that I did it, but it feels great and now my wife and I have a new hobby to enjoy together. So if there's something new and possibly scary that interests you, I encourage you to try it. And I have just the thing to help. I just put online a Ten Year Journal that starts on January 1, 2012. A 10-year journal is a kind of diary with one page for each day of the year, but spanning 10 years on each page. For example, the first page, January 1, has just a few lines for January 1 2012, then a few lines for January 1 2013, all the way through 2021. If you've been reading the newsletter for a long time, you already know that I create a new 10-year journal at the start of every year, and if you've never printed one out before, I encourage you to do so, at PrintablePlanners.net. (If you have printed one out before, there's no need to do it again because they last ten years!) Once it's printed, what should you do with it? Here are some ideas:
  - use it as a diary -- a no-stress diary where you only need to write two lines a day.
  - write a note to your child.
  - record important events and trends (such as medical or financial) so you can look back over them later.
  - track your progress in running :)
 


» New Seasonal Stationery
The holiday printables just keep on coming! I've added 22 new, festive stationery designs to www.FreePrintableStationery.net. These seasonal designs include Christmas, New Year's, and winter themes.

There's a well-dressed snowman, champagne glasses, poinsettias, a Christian cross, candy canes, snowflakes, and more. They're all brightly colored, with distinctive borders yet the designs with full backgrounds are light enough for letters, flyers, holiday signs, and so on.

Did I mention all of the stationery is FREE to download and print? Like all of the 280 designs at FreePrintableStationery.net, you can download an editable DOC file instantly for free. Choose from lined or unlined stationery. Then, open and customize in Microsoft Word or another compatible program such as Google Docs - just type right into it and print!



» New Shopping Lists

How's your holiday shopping coming along? If you need to track purchases during the gift-giving season on anytime, you'll enjoy the new lists, trackers, and forms I've added to www.FreePrintableGroceryList.com.

The new printables include Christmas gift order trackers (great for remembering what you've bought online and noting when the items have arrived) as well as a holiday menu planner and new variations on the site's popular meal planners.

Year-round, you can make use of shopping list aids and money-savers such as freezer and pantry inventory lists, a party planner, and - for you extreme couponers out there --  printables on which to list weekly deals. Just print and stick it in your coupon binder for your next trip to the store.

As always, everything at FreePrintableGroceryList.com is free to download and print. Choose the PDF if you want to print a list out before writing on it, or go for the DOC if you want to type into it first. Happy shopping! (And happy saving.)
I can't thank you enough for all your great ideas. I wouldn't have been able to add all these great, free printables in 2011 without you. Please keep those emails coming, and happy printing!

-- Kevin

http://www.FreePrintable.net
  » Kudos

I get emails from FreePrintable.net users all over the world. In the last couple of weeks alone, I've gotten messages ranging from the UK to Australia to Africa, as well as this note from Joseph O. in Ireland: "Well Kevin in Portland, the truth is, when I signed up for the free Christmas letters from Santa, and got your newsletter, I thought, 'Here we go, more junk mail.' As I go on the internet to check my mail, the last thing I want to read is, 'This is free,' you know what I mean. So I opened up the first letter you sent and to my surprise you told me and every one else about your trip to New York. I am glad you and your daughter had a good time, and it is nice to read your letter. It brings a light to my day here in Ireland, thank you. I wait for the next letter." Thanks, Joseph! I hope you enjoy this newsletter as much as the last one.

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