Today starts the Lean Green Family’s countdown to a green-and-frugal holiday season. In the next few weeks I’ll be writing about specific topics as they relate to the November and December holidays, starting tomorrow with Thanksgiving. You might think of Thanksgiving has being brown and orange, but I’ll share ideas with you on how to make it green and budget friendly.

Some of the other topics I plan to cover include:

* Wrapping presents so you don’t hurt Mother Earth
* Meal-planning with the environment–and your budget–in mind
* Green-and-frugal decorating

I’ll have ample opportunities to think about what topics I’m going to cover–specifically today and Wednesday. That’s when two separate media outlets are coming to my home to interview me about having an eco-friendly holiday. One is an on-camera, TV interview (I’ll let you know when it broadcasts); the other is a print interview, with a photo shoot, for a major daily newspaper (I’ll let you know when that goes live).

Of course what this means is that this past weekend (and this morning as well), we’ve been racing to get our home holiday-ready, even though we’d just barely put away the Halloween decorations. But that’s what you get when you work with and contribute to the media.

Now excuse me while I go trim my tree…