Holidaze is a series about having a fun, less costly, relaxing fall and winter holiday season.
Today is a quick one, then an update.
For the last few days, I've thought of a few things I want to make sure I get for the holiday season. These are mostly special foods. Just now, I finally went ahead and made a new note on my phone to start a checklist. If you don't want it on your phone, start a list on a notepad on your coffee table, tuck a folded paper into your wallet, whatever is convenient for you to easily add things to your list. This is a very simple idea!
My city has a great secondhand craft supply store. Today, we went there and I picked up a ton of interesting paper, ribbon, and yarn. My store has a free bin of yarn, it turns out, with lots of small amounts of both regular and weird yarn (complimentary). They also told me people donate TONS of ribbon, and they let me take a gallon bag full for $1.
I spent $13 altogether and got so much great stuff. Like 5+ pounds of paper, ribbon, and yarn. If you have a store like this, what a great place to start to get inexpensive or less expensive supplies for your holiday projects. The worker even mentioned garlands to me as a great use for ribbon :)
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