Love the idea of putting old ornaments in a big bowl. I have an inherited box of ornaments from my parents’ house and I’ve never done anything with them.
I have a fake tree, which I love because there’s no pressure to get it down before it dries out too much.
I also have a 40 inch wrought iron table tree that has only bird and insect ornaments on it. I’ll keep that tree and ornaments to the very end. The ornaments are mostly delicate glass butterflies and birds.!I used to buy a few every year, but the store that carried them has gone out of business.
If there’s time, my adult kids still love to bake and decorate sugar cookies.
We still hang the hand knit stockings - on the upstairs bannister because now that there are seven stockings they don’t fit over the fireplace. My mother knit mine, my husband’s and my first child’s and then handed the directions to me. I continued the tradition with my other two kids. The last two are spouse and significant other and I bought the stockings.
One of the prettiest Christmas trees I’ve ever seen was in Florida. It had white lights and sand dollars hung with red ribbons.