Front Door Holiday Decor On the Cheap

I consider it a game every season to decorate for as little money as possible - of course I could NOT decorate and that would be free, but I mean, what are we doing here, right? Each year it looks a little different, but this year it's simple but festive - here's how I broke it all down: 

The wreath was in someone else's discarded holiday items, so that was free; it's obviously fake but looks pretty convincing, so we use it every year and dress it up differently. This year we got a $1 buffalo check bow from Dollar Tree and added in some battery-operated fairy lights ($5 on Amazon and they are operated by remote! And they actually have lasted through multiple seasons).

The planters are actually just the leftover mums I purchased at the end of summer. When the blossoms died, I cut them all back so it was just the greens for a while. 

My plan was to pull them out and put something new in for Christmas, but instead of doing that, I just decided to pump it up a bit by sticking in $1 decorations and branches from the bottom of our Christmas tree.

I added some more fairy lights to the planters, and done!