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Hi, everyone.  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video, I'll share with you how I used Avery.com to print all of my holiday address labels for free. This is my annual seasonal challenge -- what is the best and easiest way to print address labels for my holiday cards?  I keep my addresses in a Google spreadsheet, which I update each year.  For a couple of years, I used a GSheets Add-on from Avery called "Create and Print Labels -- Labelmaker", but the formatting was awful and then they discontinued the free version, so you have to pay 80 buck for a lifetime license.  Which, honestly, doesn't make ANY sense to me.  I mean -- you'd think that Avery would make money from their labels, right?  Wouldn't they be able to sell MORE labels if they could make it easier to use them?  Last year, I resorted to firing up Microsoft Excel and Word in order to produce my labels, but I'm always salty when I have take steps back in time to u...

Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today’s video I’ll share some of my tips for getting organized over the holidays using Google Sheets and Toodledo.  I love the holidays, but like everyone else, I frequently feel overwhelmed by all of the additional tasks during holiday season — decorating the house and tree, ordering and sending holiday cards, and buying and wrapping Christmas presents.  All this amid lots of late-night seasonal festivities and, for us, holiday travel.  My very first order of business is that I cut myself some major slack around the holidays. I would highly recommend doing an analysis of what is critical to you and what is not and then prioritizing accordingly. For example, weekends are hectic for us at this time of year — my husband travels, my kids have a bunch of activities.  It was getting increasingly difficult to plan enough time on a weekend for all of us to go out, get a tree, put it up, and...