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With Christmas coming around the corner, and with the recession, many people’s wallets are not what they used to be. And lets face it, we are all looking at ways to cut costs this holiday season.

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Here are some inexpensive Christmas decorating ideas for you to do, if you want a More “Christmasy feeling in your home” without breaking the bank.

If you live near a Big Spruce Tree, or forest, you can gather up pine cones, and either spray paint them silver and gold or leave in natural state, and you can create several crafts out of them. If you are not crafty at all, simply fill up a clear vase with them, and tie some ribbon.
Get creative and hot glue gun decorations as well. Pine cone Christmas ornaments can be found various places online.

Some Cute little decorating that are very inexpensive:

Take down your pictures and wrap them like a gift, then hang them back on the wall for great holiday look. Put some Christmas Cheer in a room.

Take your throw pillows and tie them with holiday colored ribbons either once around the middle or like a Christmas gift

Wrap your doors in Christmas wrapping paper and attach large bows

Make basic sugar cookies or gingerbread cookies. Before baking, make a hole toward the top of each cookie using a straw. Bake and cool. String a ribbon through each cookie and hang them on your Christmas tree.

As well as : Create a cookie wreath centerpiece for your table. Just arrange Christmas cookies in a wreath shape right on the table cloth. No need to attach them together, as they will be ate, and you can add a candle in the middle.

Replace your fish tank background mural with a piece of Christmas wrapping paper

Make a Swag using Christamas Cards, or put them on your fireplace mantel. Just use some string or twine, and if you kept them, last year Christmas cards.

Take clear vases or bottles, fill them with water, add holiday-colored food coloring and add a tea light candle.

Make simple bows from Christmas print ribbon and pin them to your curtains

Wrap your plant pots in red or green foil wrap. You don’t even have to remove the plants first.

Tie a red ribbon around a tall, slim drinking glass. Fill the glass with candy canes and display on a shelf or side table.

For quick ornaments, you can hang Christmas cookie cutters with ribbon. on your tree or in a window

Wrap indoor Christmas lights around a railing or banister.

A lot of work, but inexpensive Impression: Wrap an assortment of medium to large sized boxes with Christmas wrap. Attach ribbons and bows. Pile the boxes in a corner from floor to ceiling

Create personalized gingerbread men as place cards for your dining table. Use colored icing to decorate each gingerbread man to print each person’s name across the chest of the gingerbread man

What are some of your inexpensive Decorating ideas?

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Borrowed from frugalvillage

We spend the first part of our human experience avidly accumulating things and the other half wondering what in the world we’re going to do with all the stuff. Magret E. Keats

I’ve never really thought of myself as a person who cares about material things, but after years of marriage and raising three children, I had accumulated more than I needed. I made the kids take what was theirs as they left home and began building their own nests, but there was still too much. I started to think about what my kids would do with all of it when I’m dead and gone, and decided most of it would probably be dumped or sold in a garage sale. I decided maybe I should start getting rid of it before they did!

About that time I discovered a wonderful little book, “How to Simplify Your Life,” by Elaine St.James. I asked for the book as a Christmas gift, and it has been well worth what my daughter spent on it (I believe it was only about $10 at the time). I’ve read it on many different occasions. It’s great for just flipping through and reading whatever catches your interest that day.

One of my favorite sections in the book is about getting rid of things you no longer need. She suggests setting up a closet or t least a shelf for those items. I’m not talking about worn out junk, but items which are in good shape that may be a treasure to someone else! She calls them “mathoms.” My grandson calls the process of giving away your stuff, “regifting.” It works for me, no matter what you call it. For instance, I had a beautiful bottle that my daughter had filled with oil and flowers at one time. It was dark pink with a wide square base that became more slender toward the top. Years later, the color in the flowers had all run into the oil and it looked like a bottle of sludge! I popped the cork, dumped the stuff out of the inside, and put the bottle in the dishwasher. The next day a friend came over and saw it sitting on my counter. “Oh, what a beautiful bottle,” she said. “Like it? It’s yours!” I said. I handed it to her before she had the chance to say no. She was thrilled to latch on to it because she said her mother collected pink glassware. Who would have ever known! My castaway was passed on to her before it ever made it to my regifting shelf. She immediately gave it to her mother, who was just thrilled to add it to her collection. Nice thing is, that once it’s out of my house, I don’t care how many times it is regifted.

Here’s how you can get started. Go through your house looking arefully at everything. As you pick up each item, ask yourself if you really need it. In my case, I ask if it serves a purpose. If it doesn’t, throw it in a box and haul it off to your new shelf. Mine is in an upstairs linen closet that is seldom used. When I need a quick gift for someone,I browse the shelf and find something that’s appropriate for that person. A few years ago I bought one of those stand-up wall units that holds about eighteen 8×10″ photos. As I went through the house looking for photos, I ended up with eighteen empty picture frames. They are just perfect for regifting, especially if I fill it with a photo I’ve taken of that friend, or of the two of us. I can write my sentiments on the back, wrap it in a nice box or bag, and have a very personal gift that will always remind her of our friendship.

Your items may include candles that make you sneeze because you’re allergic to lavender; empty jars that can be filled with candy or potpourri; a perfume atomizer that was never used because your allergies prohibit you from wearing perfume; that ring holder that is meant to keep by your sink for someone who takes their rings off when they wash their hands (I don’t!), or books that you just never really wanted to read.

Now, when the spirit moves me to clean out drawers and closets, I’m on the search for things to replenish my regifting shelf. Recently I’ve added a bread knife I bought at a trade show because the salesman made me think I couldn’t live without it, and a box of baking tubes. Once I got the tubes home, I decided they would be way too much trouble to clean if I actually used them, so they stayed in the box. They didn’t pass the practical test, but maybe someone who entertains will think it’s worth the effort to have heart-shaped bread!

With the holidays coming up, this is a great time to start making the rounds and setting up your own regifting center. Doesn’t it seem crazy to go buy gifts when you have resources right there in your own home? It’s never a good idea to increase your credit card balance for gift giving, but this year when we have need to be concerned about the economy, it is the perfect time to cut back and be more sensible. If you exchange gifts with a group of friends, suggest a white elephant gift, where everyone is regifting!

My very dearest friends and I have made an agreement not to buy each other gifts anymore. We realize that our friendship is more valuable than anything we could purchase, so we make the time to have a special birthday lunch or Christmas brunch to catch up on our lives. Years from now we won’t remember what someone bought us, but we will remember the kindness they showed to us. Ralph Waldo Emerson had it right when he penned, “The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.”

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Go Elf Yourself, is a very humerous funny thing to do. Add your pictures to this ELF dance up to a  5 people at once, So add your family, and watch yourself dance.  It is FREE FOR EVERYONE.

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Write to santa at:

Santa Claus
North Pole
H0H 0H0
Canada

Santa will write back if you include your mailing address.

http://www.northpole.com/ is a Great Place.

Free Things to Do List:

FREE Things To Do:
	*Send a letter to Santa *Send holiday postcards *Stories to read & color *Santa’s Birthday Cards *Games to play *Holiday recipes *Northpole Wallpaper *Puzzles & Activities *Good Deed Calendar *Visit Elf Pal Academy *Educational Activities *Q&A with Santa *Find the hidden stories *Naughty or Nice List *Santa Tracker (Dec. 24)

As You see it is a very long list. Enjoy with your family.