Top 10 Inexpensive Ways to Trim your Christmas Tree
- Make your own garlands: Make a garland featuring cranberries and popcorn for a classic, but inexpensive look. To create some festive strings of popcorn and cranberries for your, all you need is a needle, thread, cranberries and popped popcorn. Prepare the needle and thread like youíre getting ready to sew, and then thread the popcorn and cranberries onto the garland.
- Shop at thrift stores for tree trimmings: Before you pay full price for ornaments, a tree skirt or other decorations, check your local thrift store. You can often find holiday dÈcor in good condition at a fraction of the original price.
- Shop Black Friday deals: Check store ads for big savings on Christmas ornaments and other tree trimmings during Black Friday. Be sure to look for high-value coupons in addition to sale items.
- Make your own ornaments: Get crafty and fill the tree with inexpensive homemade ornaments. From pushing sparkly thumbtacks into foam balls, to spray painting pine cones, to wrapping jewelry boxes, the possibilities for homemade ornaments are endless. Be sure to have some string or hooks on hand so you can hang your creations on the tree.
- Decorate with candy canes: Candy canes are inexpensive, festive and hang quite nicely on tree branches. Since theyíre shrink wrapped, you can eat them come Dec. 26.
- Fill empty space with tinsel: Tinsel is very cheap and is ideal for filling empty spaces on a Christmas tree. To stretch your tinsel even further, consider cutting a strand into several pieces to cover more areas of the tree.
- Hang Christmas cards on the tree: Almost everyone with a mailbox gets at least a few Christmas cards during the holidays. Put these cards to work decorating your tree. All you need is some tape and string, and youíll be able to hang your holiday cards on the tree.
- Add some inexpensive bows to the tree: Buy a big spool of ribbon in a festive color like red or silver. Cut off pieces and tie them into bows on the end of the branches of your tree. If your tree doesnít have a topper, use an extra long piece to tie a big bow on the top of the tree.
- Bake gingerbread ornaments: Trim the tree with bake-able gingerbread ornaments. Look up recipes for the dough online, then use cookie cutter to cut them into fun shapes.
- Focus your decorations on the visible parts of the tree: Instead of buying enough decorations to cover the entire tree, focus your resources on the most visible branches instead of the side against the wall.
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