When you have a home business, time off for the holidays can be a rare commodity. You can feel bad about taking off any time at all. Yet it is necessary. What’s the point of working from home if you can’t sometimes take time for your family?

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How much time you can take for Christmas very much depends upon the kind of business you have. If you deal directly with customers, you can’t be professional if you suddenly drop all support for them, especially if orders aren’t complete and should be.

Many online businesses, however, can more easily take time off, especially in affiliate marketing where you rarely deal directly with customers.

I got thinking on this topic because I know that as of this weekend and until after Christmas I won’t be doing much with my websites. Too much to do in real life. There’s the house to get company clean, a Christmas dinner to plan and shop for, gifts to wrap and family to see. Things are a bit spread out because my sisters will be coming into town after Christmas.

That doesn’t mean I’ll be off work completely by a long shot. But I also want to spend more time in planning new posts, so that I can start the new year off well. There are several major post ideas I have for some of my blogs, a couple series I need to figure out in detail, that kind of thing.

That’s another advantage to taking a break from active posting. I can take some extra time for thinking.

This time of year for many people should be about enjoying time with family and celebrating their faith. Balancing these with a home business is challenging, but what better time?

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