I vaguely recall a video from a few years back, using trays of (glued on) solo cups to store baubles. You can use an offcut from a plank of wood (or a coat hanger, in a pinch) to wrap lights around.
I have two large clear ornament bins. Every year, I treat myself to one (or two) special ornaments from a trip, a craft shop or just wherever I see one that makes me smile. Not necessarily expensive. Breakable ornaments are carefully wrapped up, non breakables are placed together in pretty boxes. All fit into the two bins and put away after Christmas. When I take them out the following year, it’s like opening presents, when I unwrap them! Not a chore, just a lot of awww’s, so sweet, cool, funny, etc coming out of my mouth. I just keep all the wrappings in the same bins for the later putting away. Love Christmas. My home decorations are mostly nature, outdoor winter wonderland themed, so can keep them up, over our whole cold Canadian winter.
I love the tree with the red on it,guess I just love traditional type, I love your new home and both trees are gorgeous,I love all your decorations are beautiful,👍👍👍🙏🏽♥️♥️♥️♥️
I'm a butterfly. But when it comes to certain items, I'm a bee. I wrap my ornaments well but then chuck everything into a tote. I'll find ornaments in different totes. I broke down and purchased an ornament box. Not all the ornaments fit in it. So once again, there's ornaments in other boxes. I'm not disappointed. It is what it is.
This Lady is one of those people who pulls trash from the road and turns it into something magical. I have seen lots of this stuff at the dollar tree and it looked like trash to me. Now I am sitting in amazement of how pretty she made all of it. 🙌🏻
I always put everything away in an extremely organized way, BUT when I pull everything out the next year I make an absolutely huge mess while decorating. I have 48 years of beautiful things to display in vignettes all over the house. Christmas decorating is so much fun. I love to see my grandchildren respond to Christmas at Nana’s!
Wow this video has 85,000 views and only 26 Likes. That would be frustrating if I posted videos. Great Job Cassandra. Love the Christmas music and theme. Great ideas.
OCD cricket here 👋 I change my house decorations 5-6 times per year and it usually only takes me 1-2 hours max for the entire house. The trick is pretty simple: when storing decor I always use big see through bins with lids and I label them by rooms rather than the occasion. And then inside the big bins i would use smaller (also labeled) boxes that each contains decor for different occasion. That means I already have my decor prepped for each room and all i have to do is to take each box to it's corresponding room and to set it up. It's fast, easy and it's completely clutter free.😊
@@deborahjames3113 That sigh.. 😅will you hate me if I tell you decluttering is one of my favorite chores of all? (right after folding clothes). If you feel overwhelmed by it however you have exactly 40 days till Christmas so technically if you make a decision to declutter a single item every day you will most likely succeed since nobody really stops at one item once they start..5 min per day should be all you need really.. 😁
I am a cricket and yes, I wrap my ornaments neatly. Can't bear to only think to toss everything in a bin. 😂😂😂 Takes a lot of time, but there's not a lot of damage or mess. Luckily we are all different. 😁 Loved the video. ❤️ Greetings from the Netherlands! Oh and the red tree. 😊
My living room as a beautify glam tree. Our bedroom has all the sweet heirloom, kid made, homemade ornaments on a small tree.. one that has the crochet tree skirt that my grandma made. We get the best of both worlds this way. ❤
I can't decide between the trees. They're both so pretty, just in different ways. One tip to make sad garlands and wreaths look better is to take a little time to fluff out and shape each branch. If they're flattened and misshapen it will make a world of difference.
“I also have a bucket of twigs!” Was my favorite line and I had to watch a few times because it kept making me chuckle - but totally planning to do that one! 🤭 love these ideas!!!!
Bucket of twigs with real greenery is $50-$80 at the grocery store! I think I can make one of my own much cheaper! Can decide if I will use real greenery off my tree....
I’m a rustic tree kinda gal who loves the winter aesthetic. Also a bee 🐝 who loves to decorate slowly, pulling out each storage tub. Each tub of course is organized by type of decor and room it is meant for 😎 On occasion I will bring up quite a bit from the basement but always make sure to clean up afterwards (I lose my mind if it all the totes stay out too long).
I have each room's decorations organized in its own bin-but there is a lot of "stuff" in them that can ake over that particular room until it is all decorated. I wrap all my Christmas items in tissue paper because we used to move often, and I was not sure if my Christmas decorations would survive otherwise. I pull everything out, not necessarily carefully, and put it in the bin top so I can see it. I get so excited seeing all the pretty things again. I grab items from the top of the bin as I go along. I have a lot of tree ornaments because I used to decorate 5 trees; one-family tree, 3 trees for each child, and one skinny tree in our hallway. I packed bins with just their ornaments that were in the original boxes and let them take what they wanted for their own trees when they had their own home. I kept their leftovers and only recently bought ornament packing boxes and started putting the ornaments in those, however, I kept a number of the Hallmark boxes they came in bc they were so fun to read about.
Oh my goodness! You have made dollar store stuff look sooooo high end! You did a beautiful job! Thank you for all the great ideas! I'm a bee.... all the ornaments go back in the box they came out of & lights wound up neatly.
I'm a cricket with ADHD. I have to wait for the optimal time to put away the Christmas decorations so it can be organized for next year. If it's a hot mess when I open up the bin I find it extremely difficult to even start decorating. I would have to organize the things before I set out anything. Having less Christmas decorations has also helped. I've only kept the things that I truly love and I use a lot of lights. Lights have a big impact on their own without cluttering up the place. I put lights on already existing plants and shelving.
I'm a cricket. I discard any decorations that I didn't use the year before and I put everything back nicely at the end of the season. Knowing that the bins are messy inside would make me nuts and I would probably lose sleep thinking about it 😬 LOVED the video. Great ideas. I especially love the flower tree. 😊
I’m a cricket and I make sure to declutter any unwanted decorations before packing them up and I put them up in an organized way. This makes it much easier to decorate the next year. I also loved all of these hacks ❤
I am a hot mess sandwich, too. I TRY to keep it neat but it never happens. In fact right now, the dining room floor and table are covered in Christmas decor, lol! Tomorrows to-do job is finish putting up stuff and clean up!!
I always pack up the ornaments by color groups, because sometimes you want a red and gold tree, sometimes a blue and white tree, sometimes a peacock tree. Whichever mood strikes me when I go to decorate, all I need is the color palette I've chosen. I don't think my tree has ever looked the same way twice. Makes me happy to choose a different look each year!
I have an elegant tree upstairs and a traditional red and green tree downstairs. As a former teacher I use that downstairs tree to display the precious teacher gifts I received over the years. I have long used the picks and ribbon to upscale my trees. Every year I try something new. This year it will be lovely long feathers that I sored cheaply from Temu. Our Dollar Tree is a hot mess. You can barely get down an aisle because there are half opened boxes everywhere. I fantasize about going there at night and working until the store looks great. I also can't seem to find some of the things you purchased, but I will go back and look again.
I am not a crafty person, but you made such beautiful things, I think I can do this. The reindeer candle holder really does look expensive. And I love both trees. 😊
You’re awesome Cas. You’re so creative and thanks for sharing your best tips with us. Thanks for being so transparent about the mess too. You’re so real and we appreciate it all. Can’t wait for your holiday baking videos. Last years’ were awesome and so helpful. My kids loved your recipes
This year, I an taking all the things out of the attic BEFORE I decorate this year. Tons of stuff up there, not just Christmas, and it's driving me insane to here the hubby and kid argue while getting decorations down. The plan is to organize and declutter EVERYTHING, and I have a week to do it. Took time off work to organize it. Yes, I'm a cricket.
I am a bee who has moved often. Lists and labeled bins are my jam! I begin by making a plan/list of what I want to use this year, then I shop my bins over the weekends between US Thanksgiving week (exterior decor week here in the upper Midwest) and the Sunday before Dec 24 (Dec 17th this year). Not only that, I have home chores for my adult children to assist us with. This year we are moving large rugs (8' × 12') between rooms for 2024-- a free refresh! 😊 And we keep the 12 Days of Christmas, so all is up until January 6th.
I just moved into a place that has space for a Christmas tree and I'm so excited to decorate it! Thanks for all the tips! I haven't been to a dollar tree in a while 😅
Love the reindeer tiered tray and the books you covered in white paper to say "baby it's cold outside". I'm a butterfly, but my fall and Christmas organizations are pretty organized.
I'm an extreme cricket. I declutter when I'm getting ready to decorate and when I'm packing up. Everything goes back into original packaging and then into like-item tubs. I prefer the traditional, rutic tree, but the other is pretty. I love the DIY. I know the story for every ornament we own. And I tell them every year. We have more of a memory tree than a themed tree. The ornaments come fom our childhoods and our trips throughout the years.
I take the dollar tree bottle brush trees and the lights that have the trucks on them. I take a Christmas mug, add some foam to raise the tree. then decorate the tree with the lights and the berries and the small red and green bows.. When placing the tree in the mug, leave room on the side so you can tuck the battery pack inside.
Cricket here :) I do find myself finding the perfect decor and not changing it up for years once I find what works in a space. Christmas is really the only holiday I go all out for-I maybe put up a few things for halloween or a bunting up for July. Storage...yeah, I do carefully box everything up but that's so it will fit back in (need to declutter it seems!)
Fantastic ideas! Easy and inexpensive. I'm definitely doing the cute bottle-brush tree woodland scene and embellishing my tree with flocked garlands and ribbon. I love all the tree styles but especially rustic. Ladybug here. The older I get, the fewer decorations I put out. All I can think of is dealing with the clean up and storage after Christmas and it overwhelms me!
My two favorite hacks are your first one with the trees. And the deer on the mirror---totally cool! Good job, Cas. I'm somewhere in the middle. I take down Fall, put the items I am keeping in their bins, dust, and go for Christmas. It HAS to look messy at first--especially if you are moving things around to have a somewhat different look. Im definitely a ladybug--so the bins are a MUST.
I am a bee, so of course I have ALL the organization bins for my decorations! I got one for that allows to place the tree ornaments in individual spots, all padded. I got a bag for the tree! So, when we pull out the decor it’s all neat and when we put it back it’s all neat! I now need to label them too!
Definitely the upstairs tree is my favorite. I was at my local $ Tree yesterday and, unfortunately, they had already sold out of a lot of their Christmas things. Thankfully the aisles had boxes of more ornaments, etc that the employees were unpacking. I allow myself to go crazy with decorating for both fall and Christmas. Hehe - you unload your decoration bins like I do. Everything is everywhere and my poor cat just hides under the bed for a couple of days.
Really enjoying this video! Like these simple, inexpensive craft ideas! I learned the hard way that red floral berries don't enjoy summering in a hot attic where I stored my Christmas decor. They burst open and revealed their Styrofoam innards. 😅 Maybe sharing this will save some of you when you pack your berries away. 😂
I like the rustic tree upstairs. I find dollar tree picks look cheap usually. I will have to check again. I am going to make the one with the trees on the plate.
Thank you for the reindeer candle plate idea! We don’t have Dollar Tree here but I am definitely going to search something similar and copy the idea. So thanks!!!
I am a cricket and all mess is cleaned up and put away that same day no matter how tired I am. When I pack up for the season everything is in totes labeled what’s in it ❤
So I am with your girl. My home is a wreck for two days. My husband is so sweet though. He just tolerates it and walks around all of it until I’m done and then we haul all the totes upstairs. It has all the previous season Decour in it. I just left Christmas decorating.
Oh yes! I am a ladybug. I have so many Christmas totes, and no organization inside! I do at least wrap things, but I also keep all the broken things and the ornament boxes which will never again have the correct ornament inside
I am a cricket and I am pretty methodical when decorating for Christmas. One I have way too much Christmas stuff but I love it. As a result, I have to clear out my display cases of its normal decor and pack it in the Christmas boxes as I go. Then come January 1st I have to reverse the process to switch it back out. I also have a lot of breakable things that I want to make sure they are protected.
I'm a 🦋 and I decorate from one bin at a time with minimal mess. I got rid of all my ornament boxes and just pile them all into one bin now for easier clean up, so I'm definitely a 🦋!
I have a few of those apple picks that I've had for years now, they hold up really well if you treat them with kindness. Both trees are pretty, but I'm leaning toward the rustic flocked one. I'm undecided as to my tree theme this year, so I'm watching videos hoping for inspiration! 🎄🎅
Our tree (only 1) is pretty much just a place to hang all the homemade or gifted ornaments we've made or received over the years. ie. It's more of a memory holder than "decor". And we LOVE it.
I'm a butterfly and I can totally relate...and then I'm like okay I decorated, someone else clean up :) I finally convinced my husband to stop using the ornament boxes a few years ago because it was like torture to put each ornament back in its wrapping and box and then tetris them alllllll into a large bin. That is not me.
Cute ideas! Never buy new if you can rehab what you have. I love thrift stores. Cheaper than even the dollar store. I have vintage mid century snowflake glasses I put battery powered candles in. 1950s ceramics that aren't readily available. I get sick of wreaths or the picks are discolored, I save the wreath and get new picks for it. I even use the garland trick on wreaths. Make my own bows too. Gave up on having a big tree and bought a large leg lap for the front window. It's an Ohio thing. We are proud of our little holiday movie that was filmed here. We have kind of adapted that lamp into our decor. Even have a crate to put it on. I try to be clean but never happens.
Say I am a combination of the two I like to do it in bins and I do one bin at a time I take the stuff that’s on my tables, etc., during the rest of the year and put them in the Christmas bins after I take the Christmas stuff out. I do have a Halloween bin and a fall bin. I have two fall bins and Easter bin, but by taking that off that I know where it is I try to dust it as I put it in the bin but 99% of the time it doesn’t happen it’s dusted when it comes back out
I haven't been able to decorate in 4 years because I'm still trying to renovate my whole house & declutter...it isn't working out well 😒 but your house is beautiful! 🥰 I hope that I'll be able to decorate next Christmas (I've said that every year for the last 3 years)
Believe in yourself and you'll get there. I find it helpful to make your self a guide, write down what you want to accomplish, break it into easy to tackle steps and you'll soon have that home you long for.
Hi. I’m from Brazil. We don’t have Dollar tree here. But I’ll do my best to find somolike that and take your marvelous piece of advice. I really love it.
Love these ideas Cass! I'm in the UK but going to use the rules to check out Home Bargains (our equivalent here) I feel like you should sell all your creations they come out so beautifully and great for the people that aren't even that crafty and don't have a glue gun or spray paint!!
Wonderful projects! Thank you. I make a mess while working and decorating, but I’m uber organized putting everything away. I’ve got ribbons and florals I’ve been repurposing for 15 years! ❤ Shirley
My house is a complete disaster, just like you. And I keep a basket or box on the stairs to collect Christmas buys through out the year. My hubby says I'm beyond help. But I LOVE IT! My happy place is amongst my Christmas Chaos!
Hahahaha I love your style!!!! I pack up all my Thanksgiving and Fall stuff neatly before I even pull out my Christmas stuff. Then as I am decorating Im am putting the things I am removing from the tables and fireplace and any where else and placing them into the tubs after I take my Christmas items out of. I use the bubble wrap and paper and wrap all the items that Im tucking away for the Christmas season. Then I just Switch everything back after Christmas. I have all my tubs labeled such as “fireplace” “dining room side table” “Main stairs” “kitchen table” “side stairs” etc etc. one year I had the flu and my husband took everything out and just threw them in any tub and wrapped absolutely nothing. We had been married 40 yrs! Things broke and I cried and had so much anxiety having to straighten that huge mess out! I forbade him to ever touch “The Christmas Stuff” again! 😂
Loved the video and all the decorations! You really are creative with Dollar Store things. I think I'm a cricket - I have bins with labels on what goes back inside each bin for my Christmas decorations and everything inside the bin is put neatly away. If I have something in a Walmart bag inside the bin, inside the Walmart bag is a label for what goes back inside that bag! I know - I'm a nut! But I do love organization! Thanks for your videos and I always love the 'endings'.
I just found you. Yes, i drive my husband crazy when I am changing out the decor from one season to another. I have already started to work on various corners of my house. I am 🇨🇦 so I also have a Dollarama. I loved both trees. I usually put up about 7 and the decor matches the vibe in the room. So excited to see your helpers - it makes it so much more fun. 🦋💕
I like both trees. I love the bottle trees arrangement and the rein deer candle holder! You have done a beautiful job on everything. That's why I like watching you.🙂❤
Beautiful!!!!! well done 🎉 Omg you read my mind. I thought I wonder if you make a mess or simply glide around adding little touches here and there????? Now I know.... thanks for the honesty...... I really think that most homes must take a hit like that during the decorating phase. ❤
I am just like that with Christmas decorations, can’t deal with it in January when everything is going away. Normally I am not like that. I put things neatly away but I have a brother and other realativs with ADHD so I think I have a tiny stroke of that. At least for taking down Christmas decor! Love these small stories in the end. I sometimes skip parts and go for the end story! ❤
The garland in the tree is my favourite hack,I use it every year on my cheap tree. Mesh,picks, flowers and ribbon also fulls it out. I use poinsetta flowers.
Everything looks great! I used to decorate for Christmas. I'm a crafty person. I made wreaths for my 2 kids for their homes. I'm making another type this year for them. A 3-D wooden star with fairy lights. I haven't decorated my home since 2020. Nobody was coming that year, so I only put up my small 2.5 foot tree. It's actually decorated, in a bag, in a box. I just pull it out and plug it in. Done. I put up my wreath (that was handmade by a friend) also. When I did decorate, I took my time and took things out of boxes, and put other things that were in the house into the boxes while the Christmassy things got put out. (switched places) I did have my hubby put lights on the house and our blow up stuff and candy canes. I get depressed if the lights are not on the house. So that helps. I don't know if I'll put up the tree this year. I had a loss last year. I didn't decorate last year either. When my kids were younger, I decorated a great deal.
Both trees are beautiful and elegant. It's funny because for the first time I decorated my tree with pink and gold. Lol. I love all your hacks. I think I'm going to copy you. I'm a mess when decorating 😀
Your video is probably the best Dollar Tree DYI Christmas decor video in the entire TH-cam.
I'd definitely like to see the guide to how to pack all these items up in the new year, without destroying everything. 🦋
Yes
Me too please
Me, three!!
Yes please, especially like that first centerpiece she made with all the little trees. How do u pack that up?
I vaguely recall a video from a few years back, using trays of (glued on) solo cups to store baubles.
You can use an offcut from a plank of wood (or a coat hanger, in a pinch) to wrap lights around.
I have two large clear ornament bins. Every year, I treat myself to one (or two) special ornaments from a trip, a craft shop or just wherever I see one that makes me smile. Not necessarily expensive. Breakable ornaments are carefully wrapped up, non breakables are placed together in pretty boxes. All fit into the two bins and put away after Christmas. When I take them out the following year, it’s like opening presents, when I unwrap them! Not a chore, just a lot of awww’s, so sweet, cool, funny, etc coming out of my mouth. I just keep all the wrappings in the same bins for the later putting away. Love Christmas. My home decorations are mostly nature, outdoor winter wonderland themed, so can keep them up, over our whole cold Canadian winter.
Thank you. No one needs to over spend on their decorations. This was very helpful.
So glad!
I love the tree with the red on it,guess I just love traditional type, I love your new home and both trees are gorgeous,I love all your decorations are beautiful,👍👍👍🙏🏽♥️♥️♥️♥️
My jaw dropped when you said Dollarama! Awesome to find other Canadian youtubers!!!
So very smart to flip the sign as a base for the bottle brush trees!
Love both trees
Bottle brush trees
Oh heavens I loved them all
I'm a butterfly. But when it comes to certain items, I'm a bee. I wrap my ornaments well but then chuck everything into a tote. I'll find ornaments in different totes. I broke down and purchased an ornament box. Not all the ornaments fit in it. So once again, there's ornaments in other boxes. I'm not disappointed. It is what it is.
This Lady is one of those people who pulls trash from the road and turns it into something magical. I have seen lots of this stuff at the dollar tree and it looked like trash to me. Now I am sitting in amazement of how pretty she made all of it. 🙌🏻
thank you so much for saying that🤗
I always put everything away in an extremely organized way, BUT when I pull everything out the next year I make an absolutely huge mess while decorating. I have 48 years of beautiful things to display in vignettes all over the house. Christmas decorating is so much fun. I love to see my grandchildren respond to Christmas at Nana’s!
The best part for me was the end of the video. Thanks for sharing the behind the scenes stuff! You are human! Yay ❤
Wow this video has 85,000 views and only 26 Likes. That would be frustrating if I posted videos. Great Job Cassandra. Love the Christmas music and theme. Great ideas.
The line of bottle brush trees and the reindeer candle holder are absolutely lovely!
OCD cricket here 👋 I change my house decorations 5-6 times per year and it usually only takes me 1-2 hours max for the entire house.
The trick is pretty simple: when storing decor I always use big see through bins with lids and I label them by rooms rather than the occasion. And then inside the big bins i would use smaller (also labeled) boxes that each contains decor for different occasion. That means I already have my decor prepped for each room and all i have to do is to take each box to it's corresponding room and to set it up. It's fast, easy and it's completely clutter free.😊
That's a great idea!
That IS a great idea! Unfortunately, I have a bin for each room...for each holiday...sigh...time to declutter a bit, methinks!
@@deborahjames3113
That sigh.. 😅will you hate me if I tell you decluttering is one of my favorite chores of all? (right after folding clothes).
If you feel overwhelmed by it however you have exactly 40 days till Christmas so technically if you make a decision to declutter a single item every day you will most likely succeed since nobody really stops at one item once they start..5 min per day should be all you need really.. 😁
@@Kao96.. I can never hate someone for a quality I admire! Thanks for the tip/motivation...it's all about getting started!
I am a cricket and yes, I wrap my ornaments neatly. Can't bear to only think to toss everything in a bin. 😂😂😂 Takes a lot of time, but there's not a lot of damage or mess. Luckily we are all different. 😁 Loved the video. ❤️ Greetings from the Netherlands! Oh and the red tree. 😊
The reindeer candle holder is beautiful!
I love that you use blue and still use it to decorate through the Christmas season.
My living room as a beautify glam tree. Our bedroom has all the sweet heirloom, kid made, homemade ornaments on a small tree.. one that has the crochet tree skirt that my grandma made. We get the best of both worlds this way. ❤
Thanks for all those wonderful ideas!
Those trees arranged on the board looks gorgeous! No one would EVER guess Dollar Tree. It looks professional! Love it :)
Yay!
I can't decide between the trees. They're both so pretty, just in different ways. One tip to make sad garlands and wreaths look better is to take a little time to fluff out and shape each branch. If they're flattened and misshapen it will make a world of difference.
I like your rustic, natural tree upstairs. I'm more of a traditional Christmas decorator, but your pink fancy tree is beautiful too.
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Youre so creative. Im glad you are reusing older items and make them unique.
“I also have a bucket of twigs!” Was my favorite line and I had to watch a few times because it kept making me chuckle - but totally planning to do that one! 🤭 love these ideas!!!!
Bucket of twigs with real greenery is $50-$80 at the grocery store! I think I can make one of my own much cheaper! Can decide if I will use real greenery off my tree....
Yes! The gorgeous pots at our store are $75!!!! 😱
My favorite inspiration in this video! Porch pots are $$$!
I've never shopped at Pottery Barn. These dupes are absolutely beautiful and way more reasonable to me.
I love your tree upstairs! And I can totally relate to just throwing stuff in a bin after the season is over. You’re not alone!
I add poinsettia flowers to my tree and stems of leaves, pine cones, etc. I love red for Christmas so add lots of red. Gold too.
I’m a rustic tree kinda gal who loves the winter aesthetic. Also a bee 🐝 who loves to decorate slowly, pulling out each storage tub. Each tub of course is organized by type of decor and room it is meant for 😎 On occasion I will bring up quite a bit from the basement but always make sure to clean up afterwards (I lose my mind if it all the totes stay out too long).
Hands down the best practical holiday decorating video ever!
I love that reindeer candle holder ❤
Yay!
I have each room's decorations organized in its own bin-but there is a lot of "stuff" in them that can ake over that particular room until it is all decorated. I wrap all my Christmas items in tissue paper because we used to move often, and I was not sure if my Christmas decorations would survive otherwise. I pull everything out, not necessarily carefully, and put it in the bin top so I can see it. I get so excited seeing all the pretty things again. I grab items from the top of the bin as I go along. I have a lot of tree ornaments because I used to decorate 5 trees; one-family tree, 3 trees for each child, and one skinny tree in our hallway. I packed bins with just their ornaments that were in the original boxes and let them take what they wanted for their own trees when they had their own home. I kept their leftovers and only recently bought ornament packing boxes and started putting the ornaments in those, however, I kept a number of the Hallmark boxes they came in bc they were so fun to read about.
Oh my goodness! You have made dollar store stuff look sooooo high end! You did a beautiful job! Thank you for all the great ideas! I'm a bee.... all the ornaments go back in the box they came out of & lights wound up neatly.
All pretty. I like the blue added for a spark of color
I just LOVE the reindeer candle holder! Genius!!! Love it all! Thanks Cas!!!!!
I'm a cricket with ADHD. I have to wait for the optimal time to put away the Christmas decorations so it can be organized for next year. If it's a hot mess when I open up the bin I find it extremely difficult to even start decorating. I would have to organize the things before I set out anything. Having less Christmas decorations has also helped. I've only kept the things that I truly love and I use a lot of lights. Lights have a big impact on their own without cluttering up the place. I put lights on already existing plants and shelving.
I'm a cricket. I discard any decorations that I didn't use the year before and I put everything back nicely at the end of the season. Knowing that the bins are messy inside would make me nuts and I would probably lose sleep thinking about it 😬 LOVED the video. Great ideas. I especially love the flower tree. 😊
I love the rustic, natural... I also like using the flowers.
I’m a cricket and I make sure to declutter any unwanted decorations before packing them up and I put them up in an organized way. This makes it much easier to decorate the next year. I also loved all of these hacks ❤
Cricket here, too. Chirp chirp. :)
So glad!!
I am a hot mess sandwich, too. I TRY to keep it neat but it never happens. In fact right now, the dining room floor and table are covered in Christmas decor, lol! Tomorrows to-do job is finish putting up stuff and clean up!!
I always pack up the ornaments by color groups, because sometimes you want a red and gold tree, sometimes a blue and white tree, sometimes a peacock tree. Whichever mood strikes me when I go to decorate, all I need is the color palette I've chosen. I don't think my tree has ever looked the same way twice. Makes me happy to choose a different look each year!
Thanks for sharing!
I have an elegant tree upstairs and a traditional red and green tree downstairs. As a former teacher I use that downstairs tree to display the precious teacher gifts I received over the years. I have long used the picks and ribbon to upscale my trees. Every year I try something new. This year it will be lovely long feathers that I sored cheaply from Temu. Our Dollar Tree is a hot mess. You can barely get down an aisle because there are half opened boxes everywhere. I fantasize about going there at night and working until the store looks great. I also can't seem to find some of the things you purchased, but I will go back and look again.
I love that reindeer candle holder! What a great piece! You always surprise us! Keep doing what you do! Hugs!🎄🎄🎄
:)
I agree! It is beautiful!
Omg your DT is huuuge and soooo nice. I'm soooo jealous. The ones here are put in old abandoned shopping plazas, old CVS etc.
I am not a crafty person, but you made such beautiful things, I think I can do this. The reindeer candle holder really does look expensive. And I love both trees. 😊
Rustic, traditional tree is my favorite. ❤️ But, everything is GORGEOUS & AFFORDABLE.
You’re awesome Cas. You’re so creative and thanks for sharing your best tips with us. Thanks for being so transparent about the mess too. You’re so real and we appreciate it all. Can’t wait for your holiday baking videos. Last years’ were awesome and so helpful. My kids loved your recipes
I love anything rustic
This year, I an taking all the things out of the attic BEFORE I decorate this year.
Tons of stuff up there, not just Christmas, and it's driving me insane to here the hubby and kid argue while getting decorations down.
The plan is to organize and declutter EVERYTHING, and I have a week to do it. Took time off work to organize it.
Yes, I'm a cricket.
I am a bee who has moved often. Lists and labeled bins are my jam! I begin by making a plan/list of what I want to use this year, then I shop my bins over the weekends between US Thanksgiving week (exterior decor week here in the upper Midwest) and the Sunday before Dec 24 (Dec 17th this year). Not only that, I have home chores for my adult children to assist us with. This year we are moving large rugs (8' × 12') between rooms for 2024-- a free refresh! 😊 And we keep the 12 Days of Christmas, so all is up until January 6th.
I LOVE both but the red and green are my favorite. You always do a special job
Love the bottle brush display & reindeer candle holder!! ❤️🎄🦌
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Love that you dressed up what you had. It turned out beautiful!!!
Thank you! 😊
I just moved into a place that has space for a Christmas tree and I'm so excited to decorate it! Thanks for all the tips! I haven't been to a dollar tree in a while 😅
This is the best easy dollar tree DIY holiday video. I love them all and have a lot of that stuff at home!
Love the reindeer tiered tray and the books you covered in white paper to say "baby it's cold outside". I'm a butterfly, but my fall and Christmas organizations are pretty organized.
Thanks for sharing!
I'm an extreme cricket. I declutter when I'm getting ready to decorate and when I'm packing up. Everything goes back into original packaging and then into like-item tubs. I prefer the traditional, rutic tree, but the other is pretty.
I love the DIY. I know the story for every ornament we own. And I tell them every year. We have more of a memory tree than a themed tree. The ornaments come fom our childhoods and our trips throughout the years.
Love that you decorate your table with tall trees and candles! I say, don't remove it... buy a bigger table!😁😁😆🥰🤩
HAHAHAHA!
I take the dollar tree bottle brush trees and the lights that have the trucks on them. I take a Christmas mug, add some foam to raise the tree. then decorate the tree with the lights and the berries and the small red and green bows.. When placing the tree in the mug, leave room on the side so you can tuck the battery pack inside.
Thanks for the tip!
Cricket here :) I do find myself finding the perfect decor and not changing it up for years once I find what works in a space. Christmas is really the only holiday I go all out for-I maybe put up a few things for halloween or a bunting up for July. Storage...yeah, I do carefully box everything up but that's so it will fit back in (need to declutter it seems!)
Both trees are gorgeous. If I have to pick one that’s my style it would be the upstairs.
Fantastic ideas! Easy and inexpensive. I'm definitely doing the cute bottle-brush tree woodland scene and embellishing my tree with flocked garlands and ribbon. I love all the tree styles but especially rustic.
Ladybug here. The older I get, the fewer decorations I put out. All I can think of is dealing with the clean up and storage after Christmas and it overwhelms me!
I know. My daughter is married and out of the house so I don’t decorate like I used to.
I get that.
I love the first diy with bottle brush cleaning trees. I will do the same. Thank you for suggesting.
My two favorite hacks are your first one with the trees. And the deer on the mirror---totally cool! Good job, Cas.
I'm somewhere in the middle. I take down Fall, put the items I am keeping in their bins, dust, and go for Christmas. It HAS to look messy at first--especially if you are moving things around to have a somewhat different look. Im definitely a ladybug--so the bins are a MUST.
I am a bee, so of course I have ALL the organization bins for my decorations! I got one for that allows to place the tree ornaments in individual spots, all padded. I got a bag for the tree! So, when we pull out the decor it’s all neat and when we put it back it’s all neat! I now need to label them too!
100% cricut. Everything wrapped and labeled. The ornament organizer is everything!
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Definitely the upstairs tree is my favorite. I was at my local $ Tree yesterday and, unfortunately, they had already sold out of a lot of their Christmas things. Thankfully the aisles had boxes of more ornaments, etc that the employees were unpacking. I allow myself to go crazy with decorating for both fall and Christmas. Hehe - you unload your decoration bins like I do. Everything is everywhere and my poor cat just hides under the bed for a couple of days.
I absolutely love the reindeer candle holder! Totally making that! Great job girl!
has anyone seen acrylic snow people at DT? (i haven't yet)
I am a neat hot mess! I set everything out, but I wrap and pack everything neatly in the bins. Enjoyed the vid.
Really enjoying this video! Like these simple, inexpensive craft ideas! I learned the hard way that red floral berries don't enjoy summering in a hot attic where I stored my Christmas decor. They burst open and revealed their Styrofoam innards. 😅 Maybe sharing this will save some of you when you pack your berries away. 😂
Yes, red candles can melt too!
I like the rustic tree upstairs. I find dollar tree picks look cheap usually. I will have to check again. I am going to make the one with the trees on the plate.
Thank you for the reindeer candle plate idea! We don’t have Dollar Tree here but I am definitely going to search something similar and copy the idea. So thanks!!!
You are so welcome!
I am a cricket and all mess is cleaned up and put away that same day no matter how tired I am. When I pack up for the season everything is in totes labeled what’s in it ❤
Fun Christmas DIYs. Your trees look beautiful!
Thank you!
Rustic natural tree and that tree decoration is absolutely beautiful ❤
So I am with your girl. My home is a wreck for two days. My husband is so sweet though. He just tolerates it and walks around all of it until I’m done and then we haul all the totes upstairs. It has all the previous season Decour in it. I just left Christmas decorating.
LOL...I do the same as you ...disaster zone for a couple of days of decorating...then Voila !!! Beautiful spaces ....🤗 I love the holidays 🎄🎄🎄🎆🎇🎇✨✨✨
I'm a lady bug . But I do admire those folks that put individual ornaments back in their compartments year after year ! ☺️
Also a Ladybug and I do a half-a@$ed job of putting my things back in tge bins. 😮
Oh yes! I am a ladybug. I have so many Christmas totes, and no organization inside! I do at least wrap things, but I also keep all the broken things and the ornament boxes which will never again have the correct ornament inside
Literally have ornaments almost 30 years old and they’re still in their original packaging.
I am a cricket and I am pretty methodical when decorating for Christmas. One I have way too much Christmas stuff but I love it. As a result, I have to clear out my display cases of its normal decor and pack it in the Christmas boxes as I go. Then come January 1st I have to reverse the process to switch it back out. I also have a lot of breakable things that I want to make sure they are protected.
I get the feeling that Cass loves decorations for Christmas.
I'm a 🦋 and I decorate from one bin at a time with minimal mess. I got rid of all my ornament boxes and just pile them all into one bin now for easier clean up, so I'm definitely a 🦋!
I have a few of those apple picks that I've had for years now, they hold up really well if you treat them with kindness. Both trees are pretty, but I'm leaning toward the rustic flocked one. I'm undecided as to my tree theme this year, so I'm watching videos hoping for inspiration! 🎄🎅
Our tree (only 1) is pretty much just a place to hang all the homemade or gifted ornaments we've made or received over the years. ie. It's more of a memory holder than "decor". And we LOVE it.
I'm a butterfly and I can totally relate...and then I'm like okay I decorated, someone else clean up :) I finally convinced my husband to stop using the ornament boxes a few years ago because it was like torture to put each ornament back in its wrapping and box and then tetris them alllllll into a large bin. That is not me.
Cute ideas! Never buy new if you can rehab what you have. I love thrift stores. Cheaper than even the dollar store. I have vintage mid century snowflake glasses I put battery powered candles in. 1950s ceramics that aren't readily available. I get sick of wreaths or the picks are discolored, I save the wreath and get new picks for it. I even use the garland trick on wreaths. Make my own bows too. Gave up on having a big tree and bought a large leg lap for the front window. It's an Ohio thing. We are proud of our little holiday movie that was filmed here. We have kind of adapted that lamp into our decor. Even have a crate to put it on. I try to be clean but never happens.
If pottery barn and Hallmark Christmas movie had a baby. That would be your living room.😊❤
Say I am a combination of the two I like to do it in bins and I do one bin at a time I take the stuff that’s on my tables, etc., during the rest of the year and put them in the Christmas bins after I take the Christmas stuff out. I do have a Halloween bin and a fall bin. I have two fall bins and Easter bin, but by taking that off that I know where it is I try to dust it as I put it in the bin but 99% of the time it doesn’t happen it’s dusted when it comes back out
I haven't been able to decorate in 4 years because I'm still trying to renovate my whole house & declutter...it isn't working out well 😒 but your house is beautiful! 🥰 I hope that I'll be able to decorate next Christmas (I've said that every year for the last 3 years)
Believe in yourself and you'll get there. I find it helpful to make your self a guide, write down what you want to accomplish, break it into easy to tackle steps and you'll soon have that home you long for.
@kittikins1 thank you 😊
Hi. I’m from Brazil. We don’t have Dollar tree here. But I’ll do my best to find somolike that and take your marvelous piece of advice. I really love it.
Love these ideas Cass! I'm in the UK but going to use the rules to check out Home Bargains (our equivalent here) I feel like you should sell all your creations they come out so beautifully and great for the people that aren't even that crafty and don't have a glue gun or spray paint!!
Wonderful projects! Thank you.
I make a mess while working and decorating, but I’m uber organized putting everything away. I’ve got ribbons and florals I’ve been repurposing for 15 years!
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My house is a complete disaster, just like you. And I keep a basket or box on the stairs to collect Christmas buys through out the year. My hubby says I'm beyond help. But I LOVE IT! My happy place is amongst my Christmas Chaos!
Hahahaha I love your style!!!! I pack up all my Thanksgiving and Fall stuff neatly before I even pull out my Christmas stuff. Then as I am decorating Im am putting the things I am removing from the tables and fireplace and any where else and placing them into the tubs after I take my Christmas items out of. I use the bubble wrap and paper and wrap all the items that Im tucking away for the Christmas season. Then I just Switch everything back after Christmas. I have all my tubs labeled such as “fireplace” “dining room side table” “Main stairs” “kitchen table” “side stairs” etc etc. one year I had the flu and my husband took everything out and just threw them in any tub and wrapped absolutely nothing. We had been married 40 yrs! Things broke and I cried and had so much anxiety having to straighten that huge mess out! I forbade him to ever touch “The Christmas Stuff” again! 😂
Loved the video and all the decorations! You really are creative with Dollar Store things. I think I'm a cricket - I have bins with labels on what goes back inside each bin for my Christmas decorations and everything inside the bin is put neatly away. If I have something in a Walmart bag inside the bin, inside the Walmart bag is a label for what goes back inside that bag! I know - I'm a nut! But I do love organization! Thanks for your videos and I always love the 'endings'.
I just found you. Yes, i drive my husband crazy when I am changing out the decor from one season to another. I have already started to work on various corners of my house. I am 🇨🇦 so I also have a Dollarama. I loved both trees. I usually put up about 7 and the decor matches the vibe in the room. So excited to see your helpers - it makes it so much more fun. 🦋💕
Glad you like it!
I like both trees. I love the bottle trees arrangement and the rein deer candle holder! You have done a beautiful job on everything. That's why I like watching you.🙂❤
Beautiful!!!!! well done 🎉
Omg you read my mind. I thought I wonder if you make a mess or simply glide around adding little touches here and there????? Now I know.... thanks for the honesty...... I really think that most homes must take a hit like that during the decorating phase. ❤
I am just like that with Christmas decorations, can’t deal with it in January when everything is going away. Normally I am not like that. I put things neatly away but I have a brother and other realativs with ADHD so I think I have a tiny stroke of that. At least for taking down Christmas decor! Love these small stories in the end. I sometimes skip parts and go for the end story! ❤
Glad you like them!
The garland in the tree is my favourite hack,I use it every year on my cheap tree. Mesh,picks, flowers and ribbon also fulls it out. I use poinsetta flowers.
Everything looks great! I used to decorate for Christmas. I'm a crafty person. I made wreaths for my 2 kids for their homes. I'm making another type this year for them. A 3-D wooden star with fairy lights. I haven't decorated my home since 2020. Nobody was coming that year, so I only put up my small 2.5 foot tree. It's actually decorated, in a bag, in a box. I just pull it out and plug it in. Done. I put up my wreath (that was handmade by a friend) also. When I did decorate, I took my time and took things out of boxes, and put other things that were in the house into the boxes while the Christmassy things got put out. (switched places) I did have my hubby put lights on the house and our blow up stuff and candy canes. I get depressed if the lights are not on the house. So that helps. I don't know if I'll put up the tree this year. I had a loss last year. I didn't decorate last year either. When my kids were younger, I decorated a great deal.
Both trees are beautiful and elegant. It's funny because for the first time I decorated my tree with pink and gold. Lol. I love all your hacks. I think I'm going to copy you. I'm a mess when decorating 😀