Holidays, for me, are about knowing when to splurge and when to save, so I don't enter January bound for the poor house. Here are some fun examples of where we've cut corners:
- Making things for others instead of buying them something. I can't make an X-box, but I can make a lot of other things! Plus, handmade is so sweet. As long as it isn't a wonky sweater with my initials knitted in...come to think of it, that would be OK too. I'd just pull it apart!
- Making decorations for the house - Home depot Christmas tree with free trimmings and ribbons bought from Joann with a coupon, after Christmas last year. Apparently I also raided Target's after Christmas ornament sale last year (or the year before - no tree last year) and when we began decorating the tree, Ifound brand new boxes of ornaments I had stashed away! Surprise!
- Christmas dinner - looked for sales in the weeks leading up to Christmas. We are all stocked up on cranberry sauce. A little too stocked up! And did you know that yams keep for months? Me neither, but I've still got yams from the post Thanksgiving sale and they are still good!
- Dinners in the weeks leading up to Christmas - I know I'm gonna eat too much pie on Christmas day, so I'll eat really healthy and avoid the fatty (and pricey) foods in the weeks leading up to Christmas and then...Hello green bean casserole! I've also begun writing out not just a one week menu, but a two week menu. I went to the store recently, list in hand, fully expecting to have to put things back, but nope, I came in $60 under budget for 2 weeks worth of groceries! How did this happen?! I wasn't even using coupons!!
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your wreath turned out beautiful!
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