Managing Christmas

[amberskyfire]

People all have different ways of dealing with the holidays, so here are the ways that I manage Christmas for family and the kids every year. Maybe there are some ideas here that can help you out as well.

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[sunshadow]

I always love your ideas.

[questella]

Oh I like your lid idea! I have about a million baby food jars now, my dude gets mad that I want to keep them all but I'm like we might be able to use them for something! Lol now I can use some of them!! :)

Great score on the tree! I got mine many years ago a couple weeks after xmas for 75% off (I tend to only buy holiday stuff after said holiday when it's 50-75% off, this year it'll be lights because the ones on the tree went out already :< Meh, I'm thinking about getting reflective tape that could give the appearance of lights and making it into little light shapes to add a little more omph to it, then hopefully when the lights on during the day hit it it'll sparkle

[amberskyfire]

Our first tree we had in Texas was a gift from my MIL who bought it after Christmas on clearance for $5. Crazy! And it was like a 7 foot tree. We had to get rid of it when we moved but there are definitely deals out there.

We don't do LED lights for a few reasons. The minor reason is that they are too expensive. It's about $25 for 100 lights. And the most important reason is because they are a really ugly color and have a weird strobe effect. Even if they are the kind that claim to have a warm glow, they still look horribly like cheap fluorescent office lights. I can't stand them. But some day if they make some that have the same cheerful warm glow as regular lights with no strobe, I'll get some!

[questella]

I got my LEDs about a week after Halloween (they're purple and orange Halloween ones) for about 1$ a box at Big Lots, maybe it's the brand mine don't look weird and def don't strobe. I actually have several unopened boxes because I had gotten so many that one year (years back when I had a good job and was making money but still was careful about how I spent it on such items).

I just dug one out to find the brand and they don't even have a brand they're just Big Lots, I'm gonna try my luck on getting a box of Xmas colors this year, I'll let you know if they're decent :)

[questella]

Oh and I just thought, another reason I'm preferring the LEDs now is one light, or five lights, or whatever can go out and the whole strand doesn't go down, the rest just stay lit, half my tree is dead now because of some bulb going out -._-. (at least it's the bottom half I guess I didn't put any ornaments down there already because of the baby and cats)

[ext_2342584]

LOVE THIS BLOG!

May I make a suggestion re decorations? Ping pong balls, gold paint, a needle and thread. I've been using the same ones for 20 years and they still look great.

Also. If you make rag dolls, you could make them look like classic kids characters ( Laura Ingals, Mary Lennox, Dorothy Gale etc.) Then give them along with a book as a gift. Second hand books are cheap-Sometimes even free-) I used to love that as a kid. My Aunt made me a red head rag doll with a copy of Anne of Green Gables. Best Christmas ever.

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