How I got my husband to stop piling DVD's on the mantle

You know how sometimes it doesn't matter how many times you ask a person not to do something, they do it anyway? Well, I haven't known what to do with our mantle since we bought our house. I always had plans of decorating it for every holiday, but it never happened. Instead, I just arranged a lot of pictures of us and family there, but I never really liked it. I especially didn't like it when John would lay the pictures down and pile DVD's on top of them (instead of putting the DVD cases back in the shelf, they were laid to rest on the mantle).

Finally, I was tired of it, and got the idea to use all the little pumpkins I bought back from my trip to Ohio to make an arrangement on the mantle. I bought this great garland at Pier One, and I already had all the candles packed away in the garage. I did have little gourds in the arrangement as well, but when those rotted, I replaced them with fake little red pumpkins that I thought matched the garland so nicely.

Mission accomplished! There have been no DVD's piled up on our mantle in over a month.

It's sad to have to throw away my little rotting pumpkins - now I just have to figure out what to do for Christmas...