As some of your have seen my setup this year, I've got a pretty good assortment of buildings. But what i am truly wanting to add are real store buildings.

I've currently have the Home Depot from 2023 and 2024. i just wanna know what else is out there... I've tried goggling, but o must be searching by the wrong keywords.

Any help would be great!

I only just discovered the Harry Potter village, but I don’t really want to start a collection if pieces are going to keep retiring. Already Ollivanders is gone, so it will already feel like a big piece is missing. Does Department 56 ever redesign and then rerelease these older retired models?

I'm a mama who can't afford Christmas this year for my 3 boys. Is there anywhere I could post there wish lists for Amazon to possibly see if anyone has the heart to help? My mama heart is so broken 💔 Sorry I'm new here and unsure if I'm posting correctly.

I found this for $5 in the Target Dollar Spot, it'll fit perfectly with my Dept 56 Snow Village!!

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Hi all I have came into a good sized lot of Christmas Villages. They were my grandparents and I would like to keep a lot of them but I find I have no room. I’m interested and selling most of the lot excluding some special pieces from childhood. I was wondering how I would go about getting these pieces appraised. I would assume there are about 40 or so buildings and a lot vehicles and people all kept in original packaging when not in use.

I do not have the lot yet as its at my dads so I will have to update in about a weeks time with pictures.

Any help is appreciated!

My mom passed down her Dept 56 collection to me several years ago. I remember buying most of these with her as a child, so it gives me a lot of joy to put up my village every year. My set-up is on a set of built-in bookshelves, so I need to have a battery-powered light option. I also need a light solution with a timer, so the lights come on and go off on a regular schedule every day. I have about 15 building.

I know others are in a similar boat -- what's been the best solution others have found? My current solution is battery-operated LED tea lights, which I've used for ~5 years, but I'm only "meh" on these. They aren't very bright, and they don't fit inside my houses, so I have resorted to using painters tape to secure them sideways onto the backs of my buildings, which sometimes works to keep them in place, but not always.

The villages I see in this sub blow me away. I would love one day to have a village that is on par with some of the ones I see here, but I’m not extremely creative. Any tips would be greatly appreciated, as I have zero experience building Christmas villages. Thank you in advance!

Before I start a collection, I just wanted to know is Lemax still the go to? Does Carole Towne measure up? Is it a good idea to start with 1 or 2 pieces this Christmas season and just add to either during the year or at Christmas time? I wasn’t thinking of doing this until I walked in Lowe’s last night to get some stuff for a home project and saw their Carole Towne display all set up.

I’m trying to find this piece, anyone recognize it or the set it belongs too?

So I spent all day setting up my upstairs village.... Am I'm not thrilled with it. I had such grand/lofty plans and ideas for it and due to time constraints and other issues, I just wanted to get it done. I still have a bunch of pieces I didn't use along with a ton of figurines. I'm pretty sure I have a bunch of trees somewhere so I'd like to see about finding them and adding some in to try and help salvage this.

I'm going to post a video on my YouTube channel so if there's any interest just let me know and I can post the link in the comments.

I think I'm finally done decorating for the holidays and can just sit back and enjoy them now. HAPPY HOLIDAYS and MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!

Hey everyone!

I've been lurking for a bit and finally took the plunge and bought a few buildings and figures. I'm planning to take it slow and slowly pick up pieces but I have a question about storage.

From what I can tell, the consensus seems to be to keep buildings in their original boxes but what about figures? They're more oddly shaped and I was thinking about keeping them in little tins/containers but are they fragile enough to break that way?

Thanks!