If you have high ceilings, the entire world of artificial trees is open to you. But if you have a modest home with standard ceiling heights, you can go with any number of trees that you’ll want to bring out year after year. You’ll just have to forego the 12 foot trees.

Believe it or not, you can now get online Christmas gifts, even Christmas trees! Some web shops offer artificial trees year round. You can select from pink, blue and even black boughs. Anything and everything is yours for the asking. The allure of the artificial tree is that it can be set up and taken down every year and you never have to buy a tree again. But with styles this cool, you may want to get a new one each year or put trees in more than one room.
When selecting your artificial tree, go for one that has realistic looking branches. Some are so fake and look sadly sparse. If there’s too much space and not enough greenery around the branches, no amount of ornaments is going to fill it in. Opt for a tree that has a point at the top like a real tree would and tapers out to a wide bottom.

When you set up your tree, place it in a sturdy tree stand. Don’t try to rig up something or just lean it against a wall. You’ll be sorry when you hear the tree crash in the middle of the night with all your glass ornaments along with it. Place a tree skirt over the bottom of the stand and circle it around the tree. Now you’re ready to decorate. Artificial trees can take just about any ornamentation you can dish out short of an open flame. Go ahead and do up a tree full of tinsel or a themed collection of ornaments. Do a different color scheme every year by changing out your tree skirt and ornaments. Try reds one year, golds another and blues still another year.

Some people like having a tree but not setting it up. If you’re one of them, place a specially made bag over the tree when you’re done with the season and stand it up in an attic or garage with the ornaments still on it. Next year when you go to get it out of storage, it will already be decorated. There’s something to be said for an instantly decorated tree. You can get right into the holiday spirit without having to do much work.

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Great bakers use fresh ingredients. That flour that’s been in your pantry since last May is probably not going to yield the tastiest results. That chocolate that’s been in the freezer over a year? Toss it. You’re going to spend the time and effort to bake for the holidays. You need to invest in good quality ingredients to make memorable treats. Go for the finest chocolate chips you can afford. Get fresh butter, eggs, flour, sugar, yeast, confectioner’s sugar and brown sugar. The better the ingredients, the better the outcome. Throw everything that’s expired out. Canned foods (like condensed milk which many recipes call for) do have expiration dates. Check them before you begin.

Once your pantry is cleaned out, you’ll want to stock it with the basics. In addition to the flour and sugars you’ll need to have on hand, you should also pick up walnuts, pecans, sprinkles, icing for decorating, chocolate chunks, unsweetened chocolate, condensed milk, shortening, non-stick spray and any specialty items like pignoli nuts.

Before you head out to the store, print out all the recipes you want to bake and then create one giant list of all the ingredients. You can find lots of holiday cookie recipes online that are easy to print in index card format for easy keeping.

With ingredients in hand, where do you start? If you’re baking for holiday gift-giving or sharing, now’s the time to clean out your freezer. Several weeks or even up to two months ahead, you can freeze cookies you intend to give out. So, you’ll need room. Start using up your freezer stock and you’ll have enough room to store the goodies.

When you bake, plan to do one type of cookie a night so you don’t get overwhelmed. Make double or triple batches of the same type of cookie and you can decorate in an assembly line fashion. The beauty of working on one type of cookie at a time is that you have everything you need out once and then you can put it away. You’ll have all the decorations you need for the one batch and then you can store them. The next day, move on and make the next batch in bulk.

Invest in a silicone mat for each cookie tray. This will help the cookies cook at an even temperature and prevent them from sticking. Have five baking sheets so you can always have two in the oven, two on the counter being filled and one with the cookies that are cooling.

Do all the washing up as your cookies cool so that your kitchen will be clean by the time you’re ready to decorate. Once your cookies are decorated, you must let them cool or the frosting will smear. Wrap cooled cookies in wax paper, then a layer of plastic wrap then a layer of tin foil. Or you can use locking bags that are made for the freezer. No matter how you choose to store your cookies, ensure that no air can get in. Air will spoil all your hard work as the cookies will not taste fresh when thawed.  You can also store your baked goods in plastic lidded containers. Just make sure they are airtight.

When you’re ready to bring out your cookies for the holidays, allow them to thaw on the counter before assembling them on your presentation basket or tray. You’ll be glad you spent the extra time to make your cookies ahead and freeze them in batches.

Now you can present your family or friends with wonderful holiday gift baskets that you’ve already made! Not only that, but it saves lots of work on the backend and you can actually enjoy the days leading up to the holidays instead of baking at a frenzied pace.

Shortly after Thanksgiving, everyone begins to expect to see houses completely bedecked in colored lights, twinkling strands of ‘icicle lights’, resin statues of reindeer & Santa in the front lawn and all sorts of other Christmas decorations. It’s not too long after the pumpkins are thrown away that we invite into our home another element of nature, another representative of the natural world: our Christmas trees! Every house and family does it different, but most every American family has some tradition of putting up a Christmas tree and decorating it with Christmas ornaments. The trouble starts when you reach into your box to discover that your moldy old Christmas lights are wrapped around eachother so much you can’t make out cord from light and with the wiring showing through the rubber, you’re wondering if you’ll just turn your entire house into a Yule-tide blaze.

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For example, Christmas lights really up the ambiance-factor of an otherwise humdrum balcony, deck, or patio.   And the Personalized Christmas Photo Ornaments I received as a gift look fantastic hanging in the kitchen, the bedroom, or even from the rearview mirror of my car!  I’ve even hung the custom-made Christmas stocking I bought last year near the front door so I have a handy place to put my keys and separate my bills from my junk mail.

As for the hundreds of other ornaments and Christmas Decorations that have been piling up in the hall closet, the secret to organization is easy.  Take time to snap a quick photo of the ornaments or other Christmas decorations that you’re packing away in a shoebox – then tape the photo to the outside of the box.  When the holiday season rolls around again, it’ll be a snap to locate your favorite ornaments, stockings, wreaths, and table décor without having to dig through mountains of tissue paper and bubble wrap!

Cleaning out and re-organizing your Christmas decorations is a great way to uncover Stocking Stuffers for next year, too!   All of the little Christmas knickknacks that were buried under piles of gift wrap and tinsel can be re-wrapped and gifted to friends, family and co-workers when you don’t need to give a big expensive gift, or just want lots of little things to pile up under the tree.  However you decide to tackle your post-holiday chores, make it more fun by turning on some Christmas carols and making time to flip through all of those priceless holiday photos.  After all, it’ll be Christmas again before you even know it!