42 Thanksgivings Items for Your Home

 

Now that Thanksgiving is over, it’s time to decorate for Christmas and put your Thanksgiving decorations away until next year!

If you decorate for seasonal holidays, chances are that over time, you will collect quite a bit of stuff!  When compiling a household inventory list, it is easy to overlook seasonal items that are usually packed away in storage and brought out once a year.  This list of 42 Thanksgiving Items for Your Home is meant to work as a “reminder” to jog your memory should the need arise to create a household inventory or simply to use as a checklist for your holiday decorating.

If this is the first time you’ve read one of my lists of 42, here’s an update of what these are all about:  we lost our home to wildfire in 2007.  As part of the insurance claim settlement process, we had to submit a personal property inventory to our insurance carrier.  This list had to include everything “down to the last toothpick” and took me nine months to complete and was 165 Excel pages long!

So, I’m working on creating my own personal property inventory for my new home and thought I would share my lists with readers of this blog.  With natural disasters occurring all too frequently, it is my hope that these lists become a tool for others should the need arise.  So, even if you don’t need these lists now, or ever, adding them to a household organizational binder couldn’t hurt!

When skimming down through the list below, you may wonder what I mean by certain things.  For example, “Food Products”.  What do I mean by that?  Do you brine your turkey?  If so, do you buy a certain brining mix?  Do you buy boxed mixes of special items that you don’t keep on hand on a regular basis, such as a pumpkin bread mix, stuffing mix, specialty sauces and jellies?  Do you have fall-inspired decorative sprinkles for cupcakes?  Our house burned at the end of October and we were decorating for a Halloween party.  How many “Food Products” did I have on hand in that moment that I wouldn’t normally have in my pantry or refrigerator?

What about “Specialty Bakeware”?  Do you have a special pie plate that you use only around this time of year?  Or a loaf pan with pumpkins carved in it that stays in a cupboard the majority of the time?  And, “Specialty Cookware” – do you have a turkey fryer?  Not something that you keep on your countertop all year long!  And, “Specialty Cooking Accessories” – do you have leaf-shaped or turkey cookie cutters?  Turkey lifters?  A baster that sits in the drawer 95% of the time?

Maybe you have a pumpkin-shaped basket that you use to serve dinner rolls.  Or pumpkin-shaped placemats.  Or napkins with leaves and acorns embroidered on them.  Or a beautiful fall-inspired table runner.  Pumpkin-scented candles.  Or, even orange-colored candles, tea lights, votives, etc.  Do you have a fall wreath that gets packed away right after Thanksgiving so that you can hang your Christmas wreath?  Do you have a turkey platter with a turkey as decoration that goes back on the shelf in your storage until next year?  Do you have autumn-inspired decorative pillows for your living room that get put away to make room for Christmas ones?  Or Fall Fairies like my Maeve pictured below?

 

Maeve is one of five Fall Fairies that I’ve collected from the grocery store over the last couple of years.  Yep; the grocery store!  She’s my favorite, but you can see 3 of the others in my post The Month in Review – November 2012.

 

 

Do you have a pumpkin or turkey soup tureen?  Orange vases?  Leaf garlands for tables or draping doorways?  Outdoor flags that announce the season and welcome your guests?  Do your children have Thanksgiving-inspired toys, books, CDs, DVDs that are forgotten about 11 months out of the year?  And, cookbooks – do you have a holiday cookbook or two that stay on the shelf hidden away until the season commences?  Maybe you have beautiful glassware with painted leaves that you only use on your Thanksgiving holiday table!

 

Just in the picture above, there are 8 different Thanksgiving/Autumn-themed things:  placemats, paper napkins, decorative ribbon, glitter pumpkins, turkey salt and pepper shakers, Thanksgiving crackers, orange paper treat bags and glittery acorn place card holders.  I could go on-and-on, but you get the picture!  It’s amazing how much seasonal decorative stuff one can collect in a lifetime or a short time!

1. Extra tables and chairs
2. Tablecloths, runners, placemats
3. Napkins, napkin rings
4. Place cards, place card holders
5. Candles, candle holders, lanterns
6. Vases, centerpieces, decorative containers
7. Wreaths, swags, door hangers
8. Cornucopia, artificial trees
9. Mantle displays
10. Sprays, floral stems, bundles, picks
11. Garland, streamers
12. Banners, posters, signs
13. Flags, windsocks
14. Scatter, confetti
15. Party crackers/poppers
16. Baskets, trays, boxes
17. Invitations, note cards
18. Gift/treat boxes, favor bags
19. Wall and window decorations
20. Paper lanterns and fans
21. Potpourri, bowl fillers, sprays, diffusers
22. Ribbons and bows
23. Ornaments and other decorations
24. Turkeys, Pilgrims, Scarecrows
25. Crafts and craft supplies
26. Doormat, outdoor décor
27. Pine cones, Indian corn, acorns, pumpkins, gourds
28. Chargers and dinner plates
29. Dessert and salad plates
30. Flatware
31. Drinkware and coasters
32. Serveware
33. Kitchen linens and aprons
34. Bathroom linens
35. Specialty cookware
36. Specialty bakeware
37. Specialty cooking accessories
38. Specialty food products and candy
39. Decorative pillows
40. Costumes
41. Toys, CDs, DVDs
42. Books, journals, cookbooks

If you’ve missed any of the last 15 household inventory list (yes, unbelievably, this is number 16!), here’s your chance to get caught up.  Just click on the links provided below.  Each includes a FREE printable checklist.  And, here’s your FREE printable checklist for today:  TS4T Checklist – 42 Thanksgiving Items for Your Home.

Tootles,

 

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2. 42 Grilling Accessories and Supplies for Outdoor Cooking
3. 42 Cooking Essentials for a Well-stocked Kitchen
4. 42 Must Have Kitchen Utensils
5. 42 Baking Essentials
6. 42 Nice-to-Have Kitchen Supplies and Equipment
7. 42 Spices to Have on Hand
8. 42 Pantry Essentials
9. 42 Refrigerator Essentials
10. 42 Freezer Essentials
11. 42 Nice-to-Have Kitchen Gadgets
12. 42 More Nice-to-Have Kitchen Gadgets
13. 42 Even More Kitchen Gadgets
14. 42 Still Even More Kitchen Gadgets
15. 42 Furniture and Fixtures in Your Kitchen

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