How do you save money on fall decorations?

Are you crafty and make your own? Do you shop at clearance time for the next year?

This is the first time I'm decorating for fall, and my decorating budget will ALWAYS be nill for many reasons--I'm too much of a tightwad, dh isn't passionate about a festive house, we're trying to save and pay down debt, etc. For ecample, I'm too cheap to buy a $3.00 scarecrow from Dollar General.

That hasn't stopped me, tho! Some thing I've done are:
1-- tie ribbon around the top of some clear fish-bowl candle holders LO from our wedding centerpieces and make a small runner out of LO leaf material to set them on;
2-- Get a few bouquets of fall-colored fake flowers and a little basket from the Dollar Tree ($3 total) and make a flower arrangement for the porch;
3, the most recent, and perhaps my favorite-- I got a $3 skein of 380 or so yards of orange yarn and gathered sticks from my yard and am making a ton of God's Eyes (you wrap the yard around the stick and it makes a diamond shape) and I'm hanging them all around my porch and outside my house;
4-- I got a potpurri (sp) mix from a yard sale for $1 and a bouquet of orange fake spider mums from WM for $1 and used a big vase I had at home to make a autumn-y centerpiece for the kitchen table.

I'm still working on everything. I plan to stuff old clothes for a scarecrow for our porch soon. I'm thinking of sewing a few more things, but am working on Christmas presents at the moment, so house decor has taken a backseat in my sewing room.

I have found a ton of stuff at yard sales. I also wait until the clearance at Big lots where you can get things for 80-85% off.

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"When people can walk away from you, let them walk. Your destiny is never tied to anyone that left." Jakes

I go across the road to my brother's corn field and get some corn stalks to decorate my porch and yard. Doesn't cost me a cent!

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~Jill~

"Religion is meant to be bread for daily use, not cake for special occasions" ~ Unknown

I usually get stuff when it goes on sale. Also MIL and dh's aunt has given me lots of stuff too-well I guess that stuff is more Christmas, but still I do not turn any of it down. So little by little I am getting some nice fall decorations for the house. I do treat myself to something new every year too.

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