Did you survive Christmas? I don't know about you, but Santa is quite exhausted here at The Everyday Home. It looks like his sled exploded in the Family Room.
Usually, I leave all my decorations up until January 6th, Old Christmas. But, this year - I am antsy to get my house back to normal and start on some DIY projects. I will leave the tree up until Jan 6th.
So how do you store your decorations?
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Actually, they are not quite as bad as the above pic depicts. Last year, we wrapped each strand of lights around a solo cup, with the end poked thru the bottom of the cup. That worked wonderful. We also use solo cups to store our ornaments, like this....
My goal this year is to really organize the decor, unlike past years when I had to go right back to work the day after Christmas.
I even found these great printables on Pinterest that will allow you to inventory and track where particular items are stored.
I also found these storage boxes available on Amazon.
HERE is the link if you are interested in them.
But, if you don't want to spend $32.99 for each box, as seen above... you can do this -
I have sent The Hubbs out to The Home Depot to get some more plastic bins. I know in a few days they will be picked over.
I have concluded that my Christmas decorations reproduce like rabbits. Each year, I need at least 2-3 more bins.
How about you? Do you have any ingenuous ideas for storing decorations you would like to share with me?
For now though, I think another nap is in order.
:)
xxoo
This year I had 15 containers....I did sort and filter and got it down to 12! My daughter said I am a Christmas hoarder!! Imagine!
ReplyDeleteI think these are all good ideas... I'm taking down everything tomorrow but will leave the Nativity scene up for the next two weeks until Epiphany.
ReplyDeleteI don't know how many containers I will have, but its going to be alot.
ReplyDeleteI have so much Christmas crap...er...wonderful stuff that we have a whole section in the basement for it- bins from top to bottom. This year I gave a ton away and I STILL have bins- top to bottom. How DOES that happen? Anyway, I am leaving stuff up until after the first, too, because the girls are going to be here at least one more time. I hope you have a great night- I love your storage ideas! That is a keeper- xo Diana
ReplyDeleteGreat ideas for organizing Christmas decor. We started taking ours down today, so I have a mess of bins and decorations in our guest room. I label the outside of each box with masking tape in an effort to keep my obsession with themes organized. Hope you all had a very merry Christmas!
ReplyDeleteBrilliant! I agree, as soon as the day of is over all of those wonderful decorations that I labored over for days just look like clutter! I threw a lot of stuff in the dining room yesterday, you know out of sight out of mind, but I will have to deal eventually. The plastic cup idea is so so great! I do have 1 of those fancy boxes from Amazon, but only 1. thanks so much!
ReplyDeleteJenna
10 years ago we started rolling up our light strings into a ball. Works every year without tangles. Think we saw it on HGTV.
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Great ideas...I still wrap each ornament in tissue or place them back in the original box....I spend way too much time decorating...so I leave it up till mid January so that I can actually enjoy them!!!....Hope you had a wonderful Christmas!!!
ReplyDeleteI leave mine up til mid Jan. I so enjoy seeing it and enjoying it all and the house seems so BARE when it is all down. I store everything my room. Each box or bin is marked with what room and what is in the box/bin. This system has wored very well for me for many years. I have probably 30 bins, I decorate ALOT:) All the bathrooms even get decorated. Glad you had a great Christmas. XO, Pinky
ReplyDeleteI am ready to take everything down and store it away until next year. You have shared some wonderful ways to store our ornaments. I am lazy and will continue once again this year to store everything right back into the boxes full of tissue paper.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year!
Barb,
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for this great organizing inspiration I am so blessed to have e-met you in blog land and you are such a blessing to me!
Have a wonderful and blessed New Year!
karianne
This year,I think that I will take pictures of the things inside the plastic bin and tape them on the box like I did for the halloween decoration
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