How funny, that Joy and Rebecca over at the Green Baby Guide chose Christmas trees as their Thrifty Green Thursday topic as well!
I know that having an artificial tree is not the greenest, considering it was probably shipped from China and is made of PVC or something. But, I'd say that the way we decorate it might be on the thrifty and green side.
Our pre-lit artificial tree was an early Christmas gift from my husband's parents this year. I love our tree because it is meaningful and that makes it beautiful to me. Actually, I think any Christmas tree looks beautiful with lights on it, no matter what size, shape, or material it is. Ours is not specaular or awe-inspiring. It quietly twinkles in the corner of our living room.
I love the red wooden beads that are draped over the branches. My mother-in-law passed these on to us because she doesn't use them anymore. She also gave us the burlap that wraps around the bottom of the tree at the base.I love that we put real, unique ornaments on it. Ones that were given to my husband and I when we were children. I have a shoebox that mine are stored in that has a list of the year and the ornament that my grandparents chose for me that year. Some have to do with my hobbies at the time, other are from various contries that my grandparents traveled to. Now, my husband and I also have more recent ornaments, commemorating the years we got married, got new jobs, moved into our house, had our daughter.
Basically, our Christmas tree is exactly how I want it. And it got that way by using what items we already had or that others generously gifted to us once they no longer used them. That's semi thrifty and green to me!
In prior years we used my parents' old artificial tree (circa 1985), but it broke in half last year.
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I love that you decorate your tree with meaningful ornaments. My husband and I have given each other an ornament each year for the last decade and we always reminisce while we put them up on the tree. It's bizarre to me that some people go to a department store and buy coordinating (and totally generic) ornaments, garlands and lights to make the right "statement" in their homes. I'd much rather our tree be a sentimental part of our holiday rather than a piece of interior decorating. Thanks for joining us this week for Thrifty Green Thursday!
I have been somewhat of a scrooge and have never bought a Christmas tree. However, this year I am finally going to do it. I DO have ornaments from my childhood, so I will be able to decorate my tree and take a trip down memory lane.
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