Frugal Christmas Presents. Get ready for an avalanche of ideas that wont kill the wallet.

Took me ages to press send on this one. I think I’ll have to do a follow up post.

My clever friend Ness - from Marley & Lockyer, puts up her Christmas tree in August.

I thought she was nuts. She said she does it every year as it makes her happier - and this week I read a piece that according to The Independent in the UK ‘People who put up Christmas decorations earlier are happier people.’ Ness is right.

So this year I thought bugger it. I decided I’m doing it too. So the last few weeks have seen me getting alittle swingy jazz on my Spotify account & upping the Christmas game.

Made massive paper stars last year - will be doing this again this year. With some sola lights I got to cut down on the electric bill.

So far on this ‘Get myself in to the spirit’ I’ve made a drunken Christmas fruit cake mix from all the pantry dried fruit stock (figured that after Christmas dried fruit will be sale and I can stock up for next year), gathered botanicals for wreaths¹ and took a walk though the pine forest up the to select a ‘future’ tree.

But mainly also been working out how to make it simple. To enjoy the spirit so it’s festive - but not with gallons stress, overwhelm or cost.

Plenty of Botanicals around here. No idea what the plants names are. A lot of things to learn.