Christmas is a wonderful time of year and ornaments and decorations add to the overall spirit of the season.
Bringing out treasures collected over the years is a ritual repeated in many homes during the holidays. Sometimes a collection starts with one object, like an angel for the mantel or an ornament shaped like an antique car, and the collection just keeps growing. Sometimes it's a tradition begun long ago by someone else and carried on, like collecting hand-made nutcrackers from Austria.
Anything that evokes memories of Christmas past and is likely to be added for Christmas future is a collection.
Above all else, ornament collecting should be fun, so do it for fun before you do it for money.
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Christmas fanatic's fantasy has a home all its own
After the holidays, Linda Manor used to spend three weeks putting away almost 2,000 Christmas ornaments and decorations in her Escondido home. The process was tiring to watch.
Oh, so many tannenbaums
Christmas devotees can't stop at one tree
By Rebecca Boren
SPECIAL TO THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR
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Join the Latvians - celebrate with a Christmas tree
Nobody probably cares all that much while decorating their Christmas tree, but today's tree - whether decorated with paper rings and cutouts or lavishly lighted with colored bulbs and twinkling silver ribbons - has a genealogy that goes back for millennia.
Radko Supplier to Sell Direct
Christopher Radko is in a legal hassle with Rausch Industries, the company that makes his ornaments.
