There should always be a story out of your home about the Christmas tree. Where you got it. Bought it or harvested it. Decorating from bough to bough with years of family-loved ornaments or new shiny ...

Christmas is over, but the remnants – stacks of cardboard boxes, bags of sparkly wrapping paper and maybe one or two broken ornaments – remain. Though it's easy to toss these items into the garbage, ...