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16 Christmas Hacks You Need To Try

Updated on 26th February 2019 by Kate Williams | 9 Comments

I love Christmas but I don’t love hassle and stress. For me Christmas is all about having fun, spending time with family, enjoying each others company and generally having a good time. It’s not about spending forever cooking, cleaning, running out of wrapping paper or stressing all of which suck the joy out of joyeux noel. I love reading other people’s ideas and tips to make life a bit easier so today I’m sharing 16 Christmas hacks with you with ideas from wrapping paper storage to giant Christmas wreaths and festive pancakes for Christmas morning – I hope you love them too!

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All of the hacks in the image below are listed in the order in which they appear but of course there’s loads more brilliant Christmas hacks too. If you want to make sure you don’t forget these in the chaos before the big day make sure you pin or bookmark this for later!

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16 Christmas hacks you need in your life!

This slow cooker melted chocolate looks perfect for all of your Christmas baking

This hack from Chica and Jo to keep your room free of rubbish Christmas morning (especially in your photos!) is brilliant!

Make a cookie basket out of a paper plate – these are perfect if you’re doing a cookie exchange or making food as gifts for family. I think it would be a great way to serve the kids up some treats over Christmas too!

These frozen cranberry ice cubes from two twenty one will make every drink look super festive!

Glue candy canes together to use as place holders – I’m totally going to use this idea from Industrious Justice!

This hack for wrapping paper storage from The Chic Site is totally inspired!

Sweet Pickins Furniture have a pool noodle hack to make a giant Christmas wreath that is amazing and I need it in my life

Follow the hack on One Beautiful Home to make gorgeous Christmas pancakes using cookie cutters

Festive Lights have loads of Christmas decor hacks on their site but my favourite is the idea about varnishing gingerbread cookies!

Use paper plates to make these amazing lollipop decorations for outside

 

Use a tomato cage to make a lit up Christmas tree with this cool Christmas hack from 17 Apart

Make some Santa footprints following this sweet hack from Little Hiccups

Queen of the Free shares five Christmas hacks but my favourite is using dental floss and cranberries to make festive garlands!

Turn your fridge into a giant snowman with this idea from Hands on as we Grow

 

Make sure your home smells of Christmas with this great idea from Half Baked Harvest

Got something that’s terrible to wrap? We shared how to make a simple paper gift bag

Getting ready for Christmas? Make sure you check out these 20 Gift Wrapping Hacks that will make your gifts easier to wrap and much prettier too!

More hacks you need!

Love hacks? Me too and I love sharing them here, why not check out these sanity saving school morning hacks, how I got my whole house tidy by moving one thing or these parenting hacks for trips to the park

This is a collaborative post

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  1. JuggleMum, Nadine Hill

    29th November 2016 at 12:21 pm

    I love posts like this – anything to make life easier! The image of using the squeeze bottle for cookie mixture was inspired – what a great way to get perfect shaped treats! I also liked the solution for storing giftwrap.

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  2. Erica Price

    29th November 2016 at 1:21 pm

    I am so loving the baubles around the pool noodle. That looks so good and easy too.

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  3. angela hamilton

    29th November 2016 at 7:48 pm

    oohhhhh I want to turn my fridge into a giant snowman!! I also love the idea of the santa footprints. Really lovely ideas on here x

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  4. Michelle Twin Mum

    29th November 2016 at 10:21 pm

    Oh wow, so many great ideas and likem you, I’ll definitely be making those candy cane place setting holders. Mich x

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  5. Emma Raphael

    30th November 2016 at 7:33 am

    Fabulous ideas. I need all the help I can get this year, we are leaving for a trip on the 27th and when we get back, we are moving back to England for a little while. Hectic doesn’t cover it! 😀

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  6. Jen Walshaw

    30th November 2016 at 1:09 pm

    I love anything that makes my Christmas planning and prep easier. We are making the candy cane name tags here. for Christmas day.

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  7. Kara

    1st December 2016 at 1:55 pm

    That pool noodle christmas wreath idea is fabulous, what a genius idea!

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  8. Robyn Dalby-Stockwell

    3rd December 2016 at 5:32 pm

    I am preparing a Christmas treat for my early readers. Running out of ideas fast so these are a great help. Many thanks.

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  9. Emma

    8th December 2016 at 7:42 am

    Oh I LOVE the pancake idea!

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