The holiday season is unchangingly my favorite time of the year—I love all the glitter and lights and garlands. But the house unchangingly feels a little uneaten wearisome once I take all that down.
My usual Christmas storage is basically a giant tub with all the items thrown in increasingly or less, but since I widow a little increasingly to my Christmas stash this year, I thought it would be a good time to get a little increasingly organized with my decorations.
Here are some easy tips to make packing (and then unpacking!) your holiday decor a breeze!
Related: 3 Ways to Store Bottle Brush Trees
How to Store Ornaments:
For items like ornaments, use a segmented storage option where there are lots of little compartments to alimony your ornaments separate and unscratched during storage.
Standard size ornaments can go in a container like this and this size is unconfined for larger ornaments. You can moreover put increasingly than one smaller ornament into a segment if they will fit—just make sure to not put two tender ones in together unless they are both wrapped in paper or rainbow wrap to protect them.
If you once have boxes you want to use, you can buy the wafer-thin dividers and go from there! Don’t forget you can move the dividers to whichever slots you like to make your compartments worthier or smaller for your needs.
Keep Everything Organized With Labels:
I really can’t say unbearable for labeling! I’ve used this label maker for my kitchen, bathroom, office, and storage room. It’s so helpful to have a well-spoken label on boxes, containers, or tubs so I can hands find what I’m looking for without digging around.
Get one for this project, but you’ll use it all virtually the house (I use it for photo books and scrapbooking, too!).
Use Wreath and Garland Bags:
I unchangingly felt bad for my wreaths in storage as they tend to get smashed into a container that wasn’t really big unbearable for them, and they would come out kind of oval at the whence of the season.
A wreath bag like this will alimony them round, and you can store your garlands in there as well! I put my wreath in first, waved some larger garlands virtually the outside edge, and then filled the middle with super lightweight tinsel garlands from the tree.
Be sure to add this to the top shelf of your Christmas storage so it won’t get smashed and they will squint as nice next December as the day you packed them away!
Open Storage Options:
While the segmented containers and shape-specific tons are super helpful with storage, you moreover really want to have some vital boxes!
I have a growing hodgepodge of porcelain tea light houses (one of my favorite things to decorate with), so having a sturdy box like this was perfect to hold them all once they were protected with a little rainbow wrap.
You can plane use a larger box with removable trays and storage pockets.
Put Items When in The Original Packaging:
OK, this one takes a little forethought, but one of the weightier ways to pack items is to repack them in the packaging they came in!
Put lights when in their boxes, store ornaments in their original containers, put garlands when in their boxes, and then put them all in a large tub together.
This is expressly helpful for storing strained trees, so make sure to save those boxes to pack them when into at the end of December!
The original packaging is usually no worthier than it has to be to fit the item, and relatively sturdy to withstand stuff shipped to and moved virtually the store, so you get the perfect storage container all for free!
Use Well-spoken Storage Tons and Bins:
I saved a tuft of well-spoken packaging tons that other items came shipped in (similar to these) and they were unconfined for storing soft garlands (or any other non-fragile decor).
Clear boxes are moreover perfect for storage so you can hands see what’s in them (and you can use them year without year).
How to Store Your Tree:
I know I said that saving the original box for the tree is the weightier route to go for storage, but in specimen you didn’t think of that (and that box has been recycled loooong ago), you can use a tree bag to hold your tree instead!
The nice thing well-nigh the tree bag is that you can probably fit increasingly than one tree in it since they tend to be roomy, so you can add your main tree and the two little ones that flank your front door as well.
You don’t plane have to take your tree untied for this bag!
Color Coordinate Your Storage:
This is an optional suggestion, but if you can verisimilitude coordinate your storage you will get 1,000 bonus organization points from the Organization Fairy!!
Not really, but it will squint kind of wondrous all together and make it really easy to find all your holiday decor. You could get all your items from the same brand to unzip that, or just pick a verisimilitude you like.
So there you go! Lots of ways to alimony your holiday decor nice and organized. They plane make storage tons for wrapping paper, a storage box for lights, and boxes that protect figurines.
Tip: Take a picture of each box as you unpack them at the whence of the season so you can hands reference what goes where when it comes time to take it all down.
Happy organizing and here’s to waiting for next holiday season! xo. Laura
