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It’s been a while since I’ve written a Cascading Expenses post and yesterday we purchased our Christmas tree for $100 which gave me the idea for this post. My daughter insisted on a Noble Fir Tree and the only one available was a 9ft tree which we ended up chopping down to 8ft to fit in our home. I took down the holiday decorations from our attic and was amazed that we had SIX full bins of holiday stuff.

Our bins contained:

1. Many, many Christmas lights

  • Outdoor lights
  • Indoor lights
  • Tree lights

2. Ornaments

  • Expensive ornaments (Lennox) which marked special moments
  • Inexpensive ornaments - for the kids to hang
  • Multicolored ornaments - to add color
  • Solid colored ornaments - to add balance

3. Miniature Cities

  • Little Houses
  • Little People
  • Little Trees

4. Figurines

  • Ceramic Santa
  • Snow globes

5. Miscellaneous Stuff

  • Christmas Table cloths
  • Wreaths
  • Beads
  • Nativity Scene
  • Bunch of other stuff

All of these things were purchased over the past ten years so I’m not really sure how much we spent on all of this stuff. I’d venture to guess that it was at least $600 of decorative stuff but we “save” so much money because my wife usually picks up “bargains” the day after Christmas when retail outlets have their “sales” to get rid of inventory.

Christmas, like most holidays, have their own set of cascading expenses that you have to watch out for but this is one holiday we don’t mind splurging on for the kids.