Scrap Your Trip 6th Annual “Turkey Sale” – 1300 products at 40% Off

This past Sunday I took the kids to the Festival of Trees.  It’s a charity event put on by the Orlando Museum of Art and we’ve been going every year for as long as I can remember.  They auction off professionally decorated trees and gingerbread houses, but they show them off to the public beforehand.

Well, it got my kids so excited about Christmas that we “abandoned the schedule” that Lauren had made of all the things we were doing that day to get started on our Christmas decorations.

Since we are starting fresh this year, I told the kids that we could decorate the tree any way they wanted.  Colored lights…ornaments that don’t match…whatever we wanted. 

Well, they had a blast picking out the most colorful ornaments they could find.  Pink, green, purple, turquoise, orange…they just went nuts!

We already started decorating the condo.  I let them each string lights on a silk tree (thankfully I moved into a fully furnished condo).  They were so excited to do it themselves.  I started off trying to help Logan.  The adult me wanted the lights to be straight…evenly spaced, etc.  But the child me remembered how badly you want to do things yourself when you are a kid, so I decided I’d rather that they were happy than have evenly spaced lights.

We’re going to buy our tree and put it up this weekend.  Now, if you’ve been reading my e-mails for awhile, you know what a big deal this is for me.  Last year…I am embarrassed to say…we put our tree up on Christmas Eve.  Not this year!  I am determined to be a really good single mom and for me, that means Christmas comes around a lot earlier this year.

It will be a small tree, maybe 5 feet or so, otherwise the kids won’t be able to reach the top and all the ornaments will end up bunched up together on the bottom.  But even if that happens, it will be just fine.  They will have decorated it themselves and that’s all that really matters.

How about you?  When does your tree go up?  Are you a day after Halloween person?  A day after Thanksgiving?  Or are there any other Christmas Eve stragglers out there?  Let us know on the blog!

Today is the beginning of our 6th annual “Turkey Sale”.  What’s a turkey sale, you ask?  Well, I wish everything we decided to buy was a winner, but some of them are turkeys.  And there is no room for turkeys in the Scrap Your Trip warehouse.  (Literally, there is no room!)  So, there are almost 1300 “turkeys” marked down to 40% off. 

Now lots of these items have 25 or less in stock.  Typically, we sell out of almost half of the items on the first day of the sale.  Don’t put them in your cart for later or on your wishlist or registry.  Chances are they will be gone by the time you get back.  We will be removing things from the website as fast as we can, so if an item was in your cart, but then it’s not…it’s because someone else bought the last one. 

Ready…set…go!  Click here to get started:   http://www.scrapyourtrip.com/clearance.html
 
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25 comments November 18th, 2009