Did you survive Christmas 2013? I don’t know about you, but Santa is
quite exhausted here at The Everyday Home.
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 – but as soon as this chest cold eases up a bit, I am
gonna start the process.
So how do you store your decorations?
Rather, ours looked more like this….
Great idea, huh?
Here are some other great organizing ideas for your
Christmas decor and wrappings…
Use a clear, plastic garment bag to hold your
leftover rolls of wrappings. Hangs easily in a closet.
Wrap your Christmas Lights around a plastic
clothes hanger.
An inexpensive plastic bin with holes makes a great
Smaller clear, plastic cups can be used instead of larger
red Solo cups.
For smaller, unbreakable items such as my
snowflakes, pinecones, faux snow, etc. –
I use these to organize and mark the items inside…
Good ole’ Ziplock Bags.
I stack all smaller items in the same bin.
Christmas wreath storage was always an issue for me, too.
Right now, I have at least 6 different Christmas wreaths,
and I have no clue how many Holiday Wreaths I have total.
Let’s just say – “several.”
Yes, you can spend the money on these
“Wreath Keeper Bags.”
But, a large trash bag and a clothes hanger works just as well.
All of my seasonal wreaths are hung and stored this way.
I have created tags which mark what season the wreath is for
and also a short description. My wreaths hang in my attic.
I have concluded that my Christmas decorations reproduce like rabbits.
Each year, I need at least 2-3 more bins. But, this year – I
have started pulling out decor which I no longer use or
which does not fit my style any longer. I already have at
least 3 bins of decor I will donate or take to the consignment shop.
So, 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.
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!
View CommentI 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.
View CommentI don’t know how many containers I will have, but its going to be alot.
View CommentI 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
View CommentGreat 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!
View CommentBrilliant! 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!
View CommentJenna
10 years ago we started rolling up our light strings into a ball. Works every year without tangles. Think we saw it on HGTV.
Bliss
View CommentGreat 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!!!
View CommentI 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
View CommentI 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.
Happy New Year!
View CommentBarb,
Thank 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!
View Commentkarianne
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
View CommentBarb, you’ve come up with some unique storage ideas for your Christmas decorations. How do you keep the plastic cups from falling over on each otther..glue the bottoms to that cardboard divider? For those wreaths you are putting inside trash bags and wreath bags, isn’t it too hot for them in the attic? I would think the NC summer heat would melt that plastic trash bag that is over the one wreath.What color bins did you chose for Christmas decorations….clear?
Are you still involved in real estate? I haven’t touched base a long time with my elementary school classmate that lives in Jacksonville..lost her email address; maybe I’ll send her a card or write a letter.
View CommentI used a low-melt glue-gun to secure the cups to the cardboard pieces. I just lined them up and glued them on. I had to re-glue a few of them this year but otherwise for the most part they all stayed secure. 🙂 No, my wreaths are fine in the attic even with the NC heat. We have three attic fans so that helps a lot. Also, I use shorter bags and do not tie the end in a knot so air circulates through.
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