{"id":276,"date":"2010-12-26T11:49:16","date_gmt":"2010-12-26T11:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/homeshuling\/2010\/12\/after-christmas-sales-contest-a-homeshuling-tradition.html"},"modified":"2010-12-26T11:49:16","modified_gmt":"2010-12-26T11:49:16","slug":"after-christmas-sales-contest-a-homeshuling-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/2010\/12\/after-christmas-sales-contest-a-homeshuling-tradition.html","title":{"rendered":"After Christmas Sales Contest – A Homeshuling Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"

My family was a little confused when I brought these home from the supermarket today.<\/p>\n

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Why would I buy miniature Christmas trees at all, much less on the day after Christmas? Because they were on sale, of course!  These four trees were on clearance at the supermarket and I am sure that once I strip them of their decorations, they will make for a great, as of yet undetermined, project for Tu Bishvat<\/a>, the Jewish new year of the trees, which is only a few weeks away.<\/div>\n
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Last year, I held a contest on the blog for the most creative way to use discounted Christmas merchandise and I’ve decided to make it an annual tradition. Here’s a link to last year’s entries<\/a>, and here’s the winning entry<\/a> from 2009.<\/div>\n
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So, give me your best ideas by posting them as comments below. And since Christmas fell on Shabbat this year, the most creative entry (decided by me) will receive a copy of The Seventh Day<\/a><\/i> by Deborah Bodin Cohen. It’s a lovely shabbat book published by Kar-Ben that frames shabbat as a work of art unfolding in the hands of the Creator. Entries are due by the end of the day on January 2.<\/div>\n
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Good luck!<\/div>\n
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