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If space allows, carefully cover your fully decorated artificial Christmas tree with a plastic bag and store in a spare room until next year to save time.

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Make Christmas more exciting by placing a small present to the side of each plate at your Christmas Eve dinner to set the mood for Christmas Day.

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Add some orange juice to your holiday candied yams recipe for a touch of citrus flavor.

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Placing Christmas and other holiday cards in a scrapbook allows you to easily revisit holidays of the past and take a trip down memory lane.

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Start a Christmas family tradition of sharing favorite poems around the holiday dinner table.

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Make decorative Christmas stockings look full by stuffing with plastic grocery bags.

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Stock up on tape products after Christmas. It is generally marked down with the rest of the holiday gift wrap items.

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When family comes together for holidays try to ensure there is enough physical space to provide privacy and plan to either have some meals catered or to go out to eat to help ease stress.

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Shop for Christmas gifts in the Valentine's clearance section on February 15th. The red is the same. You can also store discounted perfume in a cold dark place until Christmas.

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Gather a group of your friends and go caroling in your neighborhood at Christmas time. Most people will be delighted you thought of them and stopped by.

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Help a live Christmas tree acclimate to the indoors by first keeping it in a garage or enclosed porch for a few days before bringing inside.

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Set a spending limit for holidays, then divide by 12 and save that amount each month to have a debt-free holiday season.

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Reuse a live Christmas tree by replanting it if it has a root ball or if not, use a chipper to grind it into mulch.

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Use paper tubes from paper towels or gift wrap to organize Christmas lights. Just fold the lights and slide into the tube.

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For an easy Christmas gift, take a small (approx. 6") pine wreath and wrap it diagonally with a miniature Christmas garland of resin figures and tie off where ends meet. Add a long ribbon tied in a bow as a means to hang.

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At the beginning of the year open a special bank account for holiday savings. If you save $25 a week for forty weeks, you'll have $1,000 for gifts.

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Recycle your Christmas tree by mulching it for gardening.

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For an inexpensive gift for extended family, get a holiday picture of your children taken at Walmart. There are usually great package deals in November. Then buy some frames at the dollar store.

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