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This year, the holidays are going to be especially tough for a lot of families — so what better time to rediscover the true meaning of the season, sitting down with the kids to create new traditions that have more to do with creativity and shared experience than spending hard-earned money at the mall? Here’s a round-up of wonderful ideas, patterns, and tutorials for other frugal holiday decorations that you can make yourself…
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So, you want your kid to have a bedroom that’s decorated to match his dreams — but you don’t want to spend much money? Well, here’s one incredibly frugal solution to that decorating dilemma: Block Posters lets you send any image from your computer (up to 1 MB size file), slice it up, print it out, and turn it into a giant wall poster — free!
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As for decorating your place for Halloween on the cheap –
“Decorate your home and yard with everyday items and almost-trash, like leftover candle stubs and toilet-paper ghosts,” the glossy magazines tell you.
Right. Not.
Who was the genius to suggest that lighted candles and paper products were a good mix? Now throw in gangs of rambling trick-or-treating kids wearing capes and robes and all manner of flammable costumes? Uh-uh.
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You know how the other day I went on quite a bit about personal taste in decorating? And about how some people manage to pour all kinds of money into making their home look… well, quite hideous, really? Cartoon: Robert Weber The New Yorker, April 3, 1989 by permission That whole discussion of “good taste” [...]
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You know how real estate agents are always rattling on about their professional expertise in showing off a home to its best advantage? Curb appeal? Staging a home so it looks good to potential buyers? I’d always half-suspected that they were just putting fancy names to common sense, to encourage home sellers to hire them. [...]
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