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Don't buy expensive holiday decorations for a party when there's plenty of free raw materials in your yard.

For example, evergreen shrubs or trees -- such as boxwood or holly -- can be snipped to make garland and wreaths. If you don't have a yard, ask for donations from neighbors or friends.

Correale likes to use Styrofoam cones to artistically display evergreen clippings and make a centerpiece tree.

"At a florist, this would cost you $40 or more," she says.

She also takes real fruit -- apples, oranges, pears -- and spray paints them gold for centerpieces.

"There are many things in your home (that) can be transformed into something that is suitable for holiday decorations," Correale says.


 

 

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