Ruly Christmas Tip: Multipurpose Holiday Decorations

Decorating for Christmas and other holidays can involve so much stuff!  Sometimes it can get a bit overwhelming to pack up and store all of those holiday decorations.  How can you lighten your burden?

Look for opportunities to multipurpose your decorations so that they are not just for holiday decorating.  We learned this one year out of desperation when we didn’t have a tree skirt.  A quick look through the linen closet revealed some red plaid sheets that were perfect for the purpose.  The sheets can be bunched artistically beneath the tree for a decorative (and washable!) tree skirt and used throughout the rest of the year.

You might think of this tip when you are purchasing holiday table linens (for example go with a stripe, plaid, floral, tapestry or solid color that could be used on other occasions too rather than a holiday-printed pattern), hand towels, dish towels or tableware.  A few years ago I picked up these cute snowman and Santa teapots with cups.  The snowman is far more useful and can be used well into the winter months for hot cocoa.