Xmas is a Comin'

The apartment looks very Christmasy!  What with the pine bough arrangements and the string of lights my husband put up.  He also bought me 2 little bargain poinsettias at the local garden center, because I had been yearning for them... (when we got the pine branches)  Isn't that sweet?  Live poinsettias are so lovely and you can even re-plant them after the holidays - they make nice greenery as a house plant...

Just a note - did you know that poinsettias are native in Mexico and were a sacred flower for the Aztecs? It's interesting to see the outside poinsettia bush which is just turning red...

I am counting down to Xmas with the 2 German Advent calendars my sister in Germany gave me.  One is teddy bears in the snow and the other Munich santas! That is such a nice tradition ... I suppose you could even make ones with your kids....all it needs is little windows for all the days...

Also lovely music on the classical radio - the plumber was here working and he commented on how nice the music was!

There also seems to be a lot of free holiday music down loads this year -There are some at Amazon - and a Yo Yo Ma cut at Walmart (???)  Get your techie kids working on that!  You could easily compound a nice homemade Xmas CD....

The litle digital recording devices available now are quite good - We had one to record our church choir - and then made a CD out of our recordings - How about recording your own holiday choir music?  It's amazing the sound quality from these little devices!

I do miss being actively involved in Xmas music this year.  The church is between choir directors, which doesn't seem to bother them at all...and the organist is trying to keep it all together and getting frantic.  I have offered to help out  - even to stage a last minute pageant sort of thing - but, I don't know, their minds seem to be elsewhere.  I, for one, really love holiday music and think it makes those services....

What other frugal news?  My husband took a big load of back laundry to the laundromat which came come 1/2 dried - so we took out the drying rack & put it in the tub to dry out all the socks and underwear - The drying rack does hold almost a whole load of wash!  

I wonder what people do with those whiz band bathrooms that have those ultra chic odd saucer-shaped basins and weird tubs - don't they ever do hand laundry?  Where can you can things to drip dry?  Guess they don't ??

We even have a little portable old washer I picked up at a boat swap meet - real 50's technology - a STEEL basin - But it does require some effort which I haven't been up to lately...I SHOULD do sox & undies in it to save the quarters for the laundry machines (as I have done in the frugal past)! Well, that's always a thriftier way to go - like sewing up the holes in my around-the-house socks!

We are not that disorganized - just cluttered.  I watched an organizing show on TV which was trying to organize a young man in a loft - Whew!  He just had undifferentiated heaps everywhere! 

At least I put the kitchen stuff in the kitchen and the bath stuff in the bathroom and the office stuff in the office space and so on. To get it all mixed up makes me crazy.  And the Xmas stuff gets put away in the Xmas box and the gifts are in the gift bag or box - it maybe behind stuff - but it is THERE.  So perhaps that's organizing on a basic level.  And when I CAN'T find things, I begin to CLEAN.

And you know, even though there is more in the Xmas decoration box - what's out may just be enough.  This Xmas seems to be the just enough Xmas - no? The homemade homey just enough and isn't that nice Xmas.....

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Xmas is A Comin'

This is a just enough and we are grateful Xmas!

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