The holiday season is a great time to get to know your family and friends better, and sometimes it’s a great time to get gifts that you really want but don’t feel right spending money on for yourself. Unfortunately, this is also a great time to waste a ton of money on buying a bunch of junk that gets used three weeks a year and then hidden for 11 months, or worse only ever used one time. The following are five things you can save your money on.

Garish Holiday Decorations

Some people love the idea of decking the hall with boughs of holly. Holly is great, and it isn’t even very expensive. However, when you start piling on the tinsel, the little figures, the Nativity scenes, the reindeer and doing everything but repainting your entire home during the season, you’re really taking things too far.

Holiday Mugs, Bowls, and Other One-Off Items

If you wouldn’t use it during Easter or Arbor Day, don’t use it for any of the winter holidays. While it may look great when you see it in a store, why seasonally limit the bowls, cups and dishes you use? This doesn’t make any sense at all from a cost perspective alone.

High Calorie Holiday Snack Foods

While they may taste great, why do you want to gain five to ten pounds between Halloween and New Year’s? Save yourself the annoyance of having to buy new clothes in the new year (usually a size bigger), and skip some of the junk food. If all else fails, just have a candy cane. They’re less than 100 calories and you can take half an hour to eat one.

Ugly Holiday Sweaters

What evil person invented this tradition? Animals that have fur coats don’t need to wear sweaters, and giving such a sweater to a person is like a cruel sociology experiment. Save your money.

Expensive Household Decorations

If your winter scene takes three breakers worth of outlets to run and still causes a fire hazard, you’re taking it too far. What exactly are you saying by having the entire cast of Jesus Christ Superstar being flanked by Santa, Alvin, the Chipmunks, Frosty and twenty reindeer? What are the other 11 reindeer’s names, even

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