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	<title>Comments on: Simple and Frugal Home Decor that Lasts for Years</title>
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	<description>Ideas for a more Frugal, Simple, Godly home</description>
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		<title>By: Valerie Neal</title>
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		<dc:creator>Valerie Neal</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I like to change my decorations with the seasons.  This gets challenging at Christmas time.  The majority of my decorations that time of year are snowmen and snowflakes.  This way I can leave most of them up until spring.

I have a few decorations that I save, silk flowers and nick nacks etc.  I pick up a seasonal vinyl table cloth at the dollar store. For spring I focus on flowers and herbs, for summer I use Sunflowers, for fall I build on my sunflowers, adding leaves, or use fruit (depending on table cloths available) and for winter use blues and whites, which match my Christmas theme.  I try to stay away from red and green decorations, so that I don&#039;t have to remove them with my tree and it&#039;s decorations.  This way I only have to &quot;decorate&quot; my house 4 times a year.  All I have to do is box up the old, set out the new, it usually only takes about an hour.  Each year I will pick up just a few new seasonal decorations to add to or replace.  Just a little here and there, using scented candles for more effect than decorations.  This also cuts down on too much in storage and too much, to pull out, which if I have more than one box to pull out for anything except Christmas, I just won&#039;t do it, and I won&#039;t buy more when I am not using what I already have.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I like to change my decorations with the seasons.  This gets challenging at Christmas time.  The majority of my decorations that time of year are snowmen and snowflakes.  This way I can leave most of them up until spring.</p>
<p>I have a few decorations that I save, silk flowers and nick nacks etc.  I pick up a seasonal vinyl table cloth at the dollar store. For spring I focus on flowers and herbs, for summer I use Sunflowers, for fall I build on my sunflowers, adding leaves, or use fruit (depending on table cloths available) and for winter use blues and whites, which match my Christmas theme.  I try to stay away from red and green decorations, so that I don&#8217;t have to remove them with my tree and it&#8217;s decorations.  This way I only have to &#8220;decorate&#8221; my house 4 times a year.  All I have to do is box up the old, set out the new, it usually only takes about an hour.  Each year I will pick up just a few new seasonal decorations to add to or replace.  Just a little here and there, using scented candles for more effect than decorations.  This also cuts down on too much in storage and too much, to pull out, which if I have more than one box to pull out for anything except Christmas, I just won&#8217;t do it, and I won&#8217;t buy more when I am not using what I already have.</p>
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