Wooden Christmas OrnamentsEnvironmentally Friendly Wooden Christmas Ornaments Why not put the green back in Christmas? Most of us already consider the environment in the choices we make daily. Don’t waste this effort by creating mega-tons of waste from your traditional Christmas ornaments. Green Xmas Decorations: Decking the Halls Strings of light don’t last forever. When you do replace your Christmas lights, buy more energy efficient LED lights and make them your wooden Christmas ornaments. Why not think about not turning your lights on until closer to Christmas itself? You don’t have to play Scrooge: moderation is the key. Change the way you think of wooden Christmas ornaments yearly and create new family traditions. Just as an advent calendar builds up towards the grand day, why not resist the full-out light display and reveal the beauty of your wooden Christmas ornaments night by night? wooden Christmas ornaments for your tree can be the most rewarding recycling of all. Instead of buying box after box of wooden Christmas ornaments you consider throw always, buy one or two special wooden Christmas ornaments each year and handle with care. You’ll have a beautiful and unmatched collection of heirloom wooden Christmas ornaments. Why not use shop garage sales, thrift stores, and public auctions to buy vintage wooden Christmas ornaments. You’ll save them from becoming landfill and have a sense of style not captured in many contemporary traditional ornaments. (Don’t forget to repair ornaments when you can!) Most freshly cut trees come from tree farms today; therefore, they benefit the environment for 15 years and are replanted by the grower. The added incentive of buying a fresh Christmas tree is that post-holiday you can place it in your backyard for wild life nesting and feeding. Then compost it. Are you already having visions of wooden Christmas ornaments for door, windows, and stair railings? Simply prune out your own live evergreen trees and shrubs. The most beautiful and unusual Xmas decorations are wreaths and swags of mixed evergreen colors and textures. This is your chance to really splurge on trim; to recycle in your backyard; and to shape your evergreens or cut back overgrowth. If you opt for an artificial tree, you may get a decade of cheer from that one purchase and avoid waste altogether until you replace it. You not only save the environment from waste for 10 years, but you save valuable time that you would otherwise use in making your own wooden Christmas ornaments and decorations from scratch (the garden cuttings). Buying a living tree either potted or balled-and-burlapped has the biggest upside. Keep in mind that you plant this tree after Christmas. Dig its hole before the ground freezes in your area; backfill the hole with loose planting matter and straw; and then weather the cold of January to plant it. (I have a fully-grown dwarf Alberta Spruce a gem of a plant from the little table top tree I ordered long ago.) Have a Green Christmas! Other articles you might like; |
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