My most useful Christmas decoration is Christmas lights. How useful they are. I hang them on my tree and hang them around all the windows of my apartment so people can see the lights outside. I spent about $50 on them at Wall mart one year, and haven’t needed to replace them as of yet.

I also buy a Christmas tree each year. I buy them my tree from the Boy Scouts each year. I don’t have a very big place, so I buy the smallest tree I can. I spend around $20 for the tree each year.

I buy microwave popcorn, constriction paper, thread and a needle threader if I need one, and a bottle of Elmer’s glue. When I get home, I microwave the popcorn and with my family, thread the popcorn into strings with the needle and thread. Read More »

Years and years ago, when my Sister and I were young teenagers, we used to sneak out our bedroom windows in the middle of the night and just walk around the neighborhood.

Well one year, around Christmas time, we decided to steal Christmas wreaths off peoples doors. Terrible huh? After stealing around 10 or so we got back home and weren’t sure what we should do with all these Christmas wreaths so we just left them on our porch and climbed back in our windows and went to sleep. Read More »

I use Christmas decorations that I bought from Target. I am not sure of the brand, but they are the traditional bulb ornaments.

Well traditional in the way they’re constructed, but non traditional because they’re pink. I also use the clear and the pink lights to compliment them. I have pink garland.

My 16 year old brother came to a tree trimming party I had and he and my dad both refused to help decorate “the girly tree” as they called it. I spent well over $200 on all the ornaments, lights, and tinsel, but it was well worth it. Read More »

I love the Christmas season and try to decorate the house indoors and out. Outside we use nothing but small white lights and outline the house and the porch and twine the lights around the columns of the porch.

Our house is pale green with dark green trim so it adds to the seasonal look. We have a lighted green and red holly display that we attach to the patio fence. The patio is just off the porch and between it and the garage so it is easily seen from the street. The porch has a bench on it and a small table.

We usually put a flower pot with artificial poinsettias on the table to add a splash of color. We hang 3 windsocks on the porch - a Santa, a Nutcracker and a reindeer. We have 3 wooden reindeer made from logs that we place in the upper yard near the patio and porch and a sign that reads ‘Reindeer Crossing’. Read More »

We use many Christmas decorations but I will describe our living room Christmas decorations. Our living room is decorated at all times in a Western Theme. We had to have a Western Tree. When we decided to do the Western Tree it was about 4 years ago when we first married.

Western Decorations were not easy to come by. Now days we see them in every store. So we have a Christmas tree that is a regular pine tree. Due to allergies in our home we must use an artificial tree.

We use burlap as the skirt on the bottom. We have many western decorations that we have picked up over the years. Cowboy Santa and Reindeer, cowboy boots and hats, guns, and all sorts. Read More »

I just graduated from college in 2004, so I’ve been building my Christmas decorations for the past few years since I’ve lived on my own. I’ve gone in a different direction than the traditional Christmas tree we had growing up with Colonial Williamsburg ornaments, white lights, and lots of brass and hand-sewn ornaments.

I still use only white lights as it’s what my family and my boyfriend’s family does. I also have quite a few hand-painted glass balls done by my friends and family who are artists (some have paintings of my old house, my boyfriend’s home, and Norwegian nisse, or elves since I was born there). Read More »

Ever since I have moved out on my own, I have loved to decorate for Christmas. Christmas has always been my favorite holiday, just because of the decorations. My mom would take us downtown to see all the lights.

We’d go to this man’s house whose yard was lit up like Las Vegas. He even wore a lit-up suit to greet the kids. While I don’t go all out like he did, I’ve slowly collected decorations over the past few years. To me the most important part is the tree.

Usually the weekend after Thanksgiving I’ll go to the farmer’s market to pick out a tree, always some kind of fir. The tree goes up at home in the front of the house. The first thing I put on the tree are the lights. Read More »

With Christmas being one of my family’s favorite holidays, we decorate a lot. We always start with the outdoor decor. We have an eight foot inflatable snowman and penguin. The penguin has a Merry Christmas green and white striped scarf.

There are lights throughout both blowups so they can been seen as people are driving by the house. We set them up first usually at the upper end of our home. We then hang icicle lights across the front of the house. We have a Santa Stop Here lighted stop sign that sits at the end of our driveway. Read More »

I have four children, so Christmas at my house is very hectic and fun. I buy most of my Christmas decorations but couldn’t give details on brand names because I buy what I need when I need it or during the after Christmas sales. We then incorporate these decorations into the next Christmas.

Since my children are school age some of my favorite decorations come from them. I particularly like the bells they made out of Dixie cups and the Popsicle crosses with their pictures on them. Obviously, we use lights on are tree. Read More »

I like very simple Christmas decoration for my tree. My husband and I have carefully selected ornaments throughout our travels, we have several from Disney world, that we hang on our tree. Each ornament has personal meaning to us.

We do not hang any of the “cheap” ornaments. We also put a string of white lights on the tree as well as just a bit of tinsel for shine. We also try to put an Angel on top instead of a star. WE like to decorate the entire tree, but our cat will often knock down ornaments, so by the time it is time to take the tree down, only the top 1/2 is decorated! Read More »