Almost Free Holiday Decor

Guest post of the week by Deangelo Spencer


For the last several years, we have lived in a rural area where nature freely provides most of our holiday decor. All it takes is a walk through the woods to find evergreen and cedar branches to decorate both the interior and exterior of our home. We also have holly bushes with red berries to snip and bring to the house for some added color. I collect baskets so there's always an abundance of sizes and shapes available to use as part of our holiday decor. Pinecones are abundant near our house. A basket filled with pinecones that have a little essential oil on them and a holiday colored bow tied to the handle can be used in almost any room of the house as part of my Christmas decor. We can always find a few small trees to place in a container and use on either side of our front steps. We feed birds year round. Their bright colors naturally add holiday red to the nearly bare limbs on the trees in our yard. We even add a Christmas bow and a single strand of white lights to our large tray feeder in the yard.

After a walk in the woods to select our free holiday decor items, we like to settle down with hot cocoa and cookies and watch DIRECTV offers to relax.