Christmas Decorations

Here is what I meant by getting caught up in the silly season and spending like there is no tomorrow. We buy special Christmas baubles or decorations to add to our growing collection each year. We have been doing this for a long time now. Our favourites are the Hallmark Keepsakes. When there used to be a Disney store in Melbourne, we used to buy the special baubles released annually. This year, we saw this range of Sesame Street hand-crafted glass holiday ornaments and just had to get one. The truth is that we wanted more than one but allowed ourselves just one to stick to our budget since we have already spent on 4 Hallmark ones. We chose Cookie Monster over Elmo.

Yes, this is the same nanny who frowns upon licensed characters and yet the majority of her Christmas decorations are based on licensed characters. How pathetic? LOL. I do try to limit the amount of licensed characters products in our home and I do sometimes wonder how I can seriously exclude them when we have children of our own. It is not entirely up to me though. The Good Samaritan loves to collect things like these and he has a say in how we spend the $$ as well. In fact, he has a bigger say in how we decorate the Christmas tree. It is something that brings him a lot of commercialised joy. LOL.