Spread Christmas Cheer

Spread Christmas Cheer without Breaking Your Budget

If asked, most people will say that the best part of the Christmas season is all the beautiful decorations and yummy food! Everyone loves all the sweets, cookies, cakes, pies and candy, but they also like all the cheery and warm decorations that abound everywhere!

If you’re on a tight budget you may feel like you can’t offer much for the holidays, but as they saying goes, ‘it’s not the cost of the gift that counts, it’s the thought’. Just take a look around at what you have to work with, and, of course, you can always give some kind of baked goods or other homemade goodies.

When my children were small, we didn’t have much money, but I would make big batches of different kind of cookies and then put them in cookie tins or on sturdy paper plates wrapped in cellophane! They were one gift I knew would always be loved regardless of whether the recipient were young or old!

Decorating is another thing that can be done without having a big budget to work with. Maybe you have some decorations from previous years or you can pick up some simple red, green and gold streamers to decorate around the house.

If you have some old Christmas baby clothes or stuffed teddy bears around perhaps you could put them in a small child’s chair by draping the Christmas clothes over the chair and have the bear sitting snuggled in the corner of the chair. Find a nice corner of the room to place the chair, near the tree if possible.

Candles are another item that always adds a nice touch which can provide the atmosphere with some wonderful scents as well. Small votive candles are inexpensive and can be used in a number of ways for decorations. For instance, you could put some votive candles floating on some water in a festive bowl of some kind or place them in groups of 3 on a small plate and scatter them around on the end tables or coffee tables.

Candy canes are always popular and don’t cost much. You can hang them around in various places or make some candy cane bouquets and place them in some green or red glasses or other festive glasses you may have. It’s not about how much you spend, it’s about spreading a little Christmas cheer in the best way you can.

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