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Cheap Holiday
I personally hate the stressful frenzy of consumerism that seems to weigh down on everyone like a Hummer truck this time of year. It also seems to start earlier and earlier! Now you just don’t want to have the best looking winter holiday house, but you must have all those Halloween/fall goodies as well! Well, I’m not playing. Just like last Halloween, I enlisted the help of my son to come up with some imaginative front yard decorations. If I couldn’t make it, or get it at the Dollar Tree, it didn’t go up. Yes, the lure of Target was great (they have THE BEST Halloween stuff!) Yes, it was tempting, and no, I didn’t buy anything. I want to set an example to my son that you can participate and have fun, without breaking your budget and impulse buying. I’m proud to say my aunt has also gotten into the spirit of things (see that! I made a pun), by spray painting inexpensive thrift store finds and playing with moss and glue. Her house looked amazing and she just uses the same decorations every year. No need to lose your mind in Target (and blow the budget.) Just get cheap and creative! Once again we’ll be doing the handmade holiday gifts with my in-laws for Christmas, but this year I’ll be buying for my family. Last year my family SAID it was a great idea, then bought things anyway (making me feel cheap and irritated.) On the plus side, I’m once again wrangling up my son for the handmade gifts and we have something AMAZING planned. More on that later… 5 comments from 4 users
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posted by
MiaMama
on Oct 27, 2008 at 02:12 PM
posted by
creatress
on Oct 27, 2008 at 04:48 PM
I think that's a great idea MiaMama. I'm all for family cooking and playing games. That spells holidays much more than a credit card bill anyway.
posted by
AmandaS
on Oct 27, 2008 at 08:13 PM
Yes, it is so hard to resist...I actually bought hay bales at Michael's this year. Please...someone stop me.
posted by
hmoeckli
on Oct 27, 2008 at 09:03 PM
Yeah, I so don't fit in with my new neigborhood. My neighbor actually put up Halloween lights. I didn't even know they made those. I will be impressed if I even carve my pumpkins...
posted by
creatress
on Oct 28, 2008 at 07:39 AM
My aunt called me last night to tell me that Michales is having 50% off all their Halloween items. Maybe by Friday or this weekend it'll be more? You BOUGHT hay? Well, you're not alone! hmoeckli, that's what I mean! People are totally going all-out now. I heard not that long ago that the average family spends $200 on Halloween DECORATIONS every year. Not candy, or materials for costumes, but just decorations. Part of me thinks that's really cool because I love Halloween. The other part thinks it's a glaring red sign on our out-of-controll consumerism. I miss all the crafty hand-made stuff of the holidays! I think we're just all too stressed out and don't have enough time to play like that anymore... and it makes me sad.
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This year our big thing is to be with family and cook together. I think we'll put together a couple of small photo albums to share in the memories and play board games.
By the way, I love your Aunts display-totally cool!