11 Christmas Hosting Habits That Make Guests Think You’re Wealthy (Window Dresser Secrets)

🎄📖 Get my book, Marjorie's Window Book: the department-store Christmas look, made easy 👉 https://marjoriebell.com In a few weeks, somebody is going to stand in your front hall and decide, without a word, what kind of house this is. And it won't be the tree she remembers on the drive home. It'll be how the house smelled, where she ate her pie, and what was waiting in her hands when she left. For fifty years I dressed the Christmas windows of a big downtown department store, and for about thirty of those years, the wealthiest families in the city hired me to come and dress their homes too. On the last page of my window book there's a list I titled "What the rich people do." These are eleven of them, and not one needs a new decoration. In this video: 🌲 The one smell every wealthy house had at Christmas (and how to get it free) 💐 One big arrangement, never ten little ones 🏷️ The ten-minute change that makes a house look catered 🚪 Closing the "stockroom door" on your kitchen ✉️ One initial, for a few dollars 🎀 Dressing your staircase like the store's grand staircase (and what to do if you don't have one) 🤫 What those wealthy families actually asked me for when they hired me 🛏️ The guest room, turned down like a fine hotel 🥧 Where rich families served dessert (never at the dinner table) 🍪 The little thing they put in every guest's hands on the way out 🏮 Opening the door before they knock 📇 The habit that costs nothing at all, from the woman who ran the luxury floor Your homework tonight: write down every guest's name, and next to it, one thing that happened in their year. Put the list in your apron pocket on the day. 💬 Tell me in the comments: who's the best host you ever knew, and what's the one thing they always did?