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How To Celebrate Christmas In Your Dorm Room

It's A LOT easier than you think

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How To Celebrate Christmas In Your Dorm Room
Madison Hirsch

Celebrating Christmas in college may seem to be a little bit difficult. I mean for most colleges you are only there for about two weeks of the "Christmas Season." This coming "season" will be my second one while in college, and I think I have some tricks up my sleeve now. I'll let you in on some of my tricks below.

1. Twinkle (or Christmas) lights

Some people (like me and my roommate) decide to keep these up all year round, but they most definitely add some Christmas cheer to the room. Especially if you put up the colorful ones! We decided to hang the colorful lights around our closets and door and it just adds the perfect touch to our Christmas touch.


2. Little trinkets from home

After Thanksgiving break both my roommate and myself brought back one little thing from home that we thought would add a nice little touch to our room. I brought back one of my favorite little houses from my mom's little Christmas village collection, and my roommate brought back a little glass church from her grandmom.


3. Winter themed bedding

Nothing is better than curling up to watch a Christmas movie with a cup of hot chocolate and a warm reindeer blanket. Bedding can include a comforter, a throw blanket, pillowcase, or even a throw pillow. Even the smallest thing adds a Christmas touch.


4. Decorate the hallway area around your door

One way to spread holiday cheer to those around you who may not ever step foot into your room is to decorate outside your room! We have a countdown to Christmas and a cute little sign that says "Santa Stop Here." If you don't want to do much then you could even just hang a reef or a sign on your door. This is a fun way to help get others in the Christmas spirit.


5. Christmas Tree!!!

This is my favorite part of our Christmas decorations. A Christmas tree is the ultimate Christmas decoration! We got ours from Target, along with the ornaments. My favorite part of our Christmas tree is the sock monkey on top! It's our version of an angel on top.

So if you are having trouble figuring out how to decorate your little dorm room for Christmas just take these points and spin them to make them your own!

And just another thing that I think makes celebrating Christmas in college better is waiting until after Christmas break to celebrate with your college friends. This way you have more time to figure out gifts, and you get to celebrate Christmas a little bit longer (which I just love because I LOVE LOVE LOVE Christmas!!)

P.S. One thing I LOVE doing is getting a Christmassy scent to put in our air freshener, and it just makes everything sososo much better!

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