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How To Store Christmas Decorations

Q: Can you post about how you store all of your Christmas decorations? Since you rotate the ornaments on your tree each year and have a large tree and a smaller tabletop one as well as exterior decor and mantel stuff I wondered how much space it all takes up. I have an attic like you, which I think is where you store yours, but I don’t really have a system so it feels chaotic. Any tips for getting mine under control? Thanks! – Meghan

A: We actually get this question a lot, so you’re not the only one wondering, Meghan! We store it all in a 6 foot by 5 foot area in our attic (our attic is much larger than that, but that’s the footprint that everything in the photo below takes up). We stack things as you see here, and we’ve labeled each bin with what’s inside thanks to photoshop, so hopefully it’s pretty self explanatory.

How We Store

The concept of storing “like with like” is basically my jam. So I think that’s the theme of this picture. All of the plugs and cords and window candles go in one bin, all of the tabletop stuff goes in two matching green bins, etc. We just try to keep things that go together, together. It really helps us know where things are without feeling like we’re just shoving things in random bins and forgetting what’s what.

For a little more detail, here’s how we pack up the big tree in the dining room. We remove everything on the tree and carefully place it in one of these long, shallow plastic bins. We have another one of these in the attic with all of the out-of-rotation ornaments that we didn’t use this year (like the faux lemons and orange ornaments from this tree back in 2009) although many things get reused nearly every year (like the white/silver ornaments as well as the soft pink ones in this bin, which have been on many former trees as well as this year’s version).

Big Tree Ornaments

Between those two shallow bins, we contain nearly all of our ornaments (all of them except for the ones on our small tabletop tree, which we’ll get to in a second). And since they’re only about 5″ deep, they’re very easy to stack without taking up much floor space. If we have a beloved breakable ornament we’ll just wrap it in newspaper before packing it away, but most of the time they just get laid in like the ones you see above.

After storing ornaments using this put-them-all-in-plastic-bins method for over five years we’ve actually never broken a single one in storage or in transport. So I’m brave enough to say that it works for us. We just very carefully put the bins away in the attic one time each year (and carefully pull it out the next year) so it’s not like it’s banging around in there and constantly being shaken/moved (in which case we’d definitely wrap them up a lot more to avoid breakage). Oh and here’s here’s how we unpack the tabletop tree:

Small Tree

Same basic premise. All of those special, mixed & matched ornaments go into this smaller tupperware bin. The especially delicate ones get wrapped in newspaper, but most of them just drop right in. Then we break it out each year, add new items to it if we’d like, and remove anything that we no longer love. It helps to use a bin that’s related to the size of the tree to keep us from hoarding too many ornaments that could never fit on that cute little tree of ours (we’ll either donate/pass down/yard sale older ornaments that aren’t as special as the new ones – like the ones Clara makes us – or move them to being stored in the two bigger bins for our full sized tree if we think we might use them there instead).

Here’s how we store tabletop stuff slash mantel stuff. Freestanding items like our wooden reindeer or feather trees don’t get bagged, but the ones that fit into large bins live in there, and we stash smaller items in large ziplock bags first, with a label for where they go before dropping them in. For example, these are all ornaments that we group for tabletop displays like the cake stand in our kitchen, the glass based lamp on the console, etc).

Labeled Bags

Then the bags just slip into the green bins (where all of our other tabletop/mantel stuff lives, like the wooden reindeer from our Christmas dinner centerpiece, a few smaller feather trees, our faux wrapped gifts for the mantel etc). That way they’re all grouped in a nice intuitive way.

Tabletop Stuff

So there you have it. How we store all of our holiday stuff.  How do you guys store your ornaments? Do you use plastic bins? Original boxes? Those little cardboard dividers? I bet there are a ton of things that work. Share and share alike.

Update: You can check out all of our favorite holiday decor finds here – many of which are under $15! 

Comments

  1. Natalie Royall says

    OOOHH!! I LOVE this post! Usually I am the person that will donate / craigslist / throw away anything that isn’t nailed down… I mean that I haven’t used in the last 6 months or so. But when it comes to Christmas… I have an illness for going over the top / tacky as heck. My husband and I have been married for just over 6 years and I already have 9 huge bins of indoor / outdoor christmas decorations. I had a bunch of messy looking cardboard boxes, but this year my husband went out and bought me 5 huge bins (bringing the grand total to 9) and now I have a corner in the garage stacked to the ceiling, it looks so organized! I finished this past weekend and 3 times on Sunday I went out there just to look at my finished product. I am soooo “that person” Haha! I have a phobia of attics (I know.. silly) so my attic is totally empty. But it makes me be all the more ruthless w/ not hoarding things… so I think it works in my favor. Thank you again for the GREAT post. Love them all, but always really enjoy your organzing ones. OH and I realized also this year… that next I won’t have to buy a single wrapping item :) yay!!

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  3. sangeetha says

    I use a similar system. But I store most of my ornaments in wine packing boxes that I picked up at Trader Joes’ for free two years back. I got the idea from similar boxes they sell in stores like Target for $15 a piece while I just picked mine from the TJ garbage bin! These keep the ornaments separate and I have not broken anything in the last two years.

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  4. Adrienne B says

    I have two ornament boxes- one of them for the special ornaments (like Yoda and Darth Vader!). I like to buy a new ornament when I travel so I have a memento, but it only gets pulled out once a year and doesn’t clutter the house the other 11 months. Everything in this box is wrapped it tissue paper.

    The other box has dividers probably meant to put one ornament per slot, but I put several in each slot. This box houses all the filler ornaments- the colored glass balls, etc. There are two trays of ornaments in the box, and I just put them in all mixed so each tray does one side of the tree. No need to worry if one side has all silver and one side is all purple glass. And since these are just filler, I don’t worry if one gets broken (though between not dropping the box and having soft cork floors, we haven’t broken an ornament in years!).

    Lights, stockings, etc fit on top in each of the ornament boxes. I have a very small house, so we don’t have much in the way of decor that doesn’t go on the tree.

    Now we just have to figure out what to do this Christmas when we will have an 8 month old scooting around the house!

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  5. Ashley says

    Idea totally unrelated to this post: What if you guys did a book tour superlatives post once all the book tours are done? You probably already thought of this being the genius bloggers that you are :) but would be a good wrap up of such a big part of the last few years… like the end of an era! (FRIENDS quote) Would love to see what you thought of the tour as a whole as well as best/worst experiences, cool finds, category prizes for gifts you received from fans, etc. Just a thought :)

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  6. Dani @ Live Lightly Everyday says

    Wow – I think I would give my left arm for your organization skills. I mean… Who needs their left arm anyway, am I right? Haha, all jokes aside,I like to read your blog and pretend that my life could be half as organized as yours!

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  7. Careen says

    We use the same exact system. My ornaments are breakable and old, and I just wrap them in old grocery bags. I have never had any break.

    Like goes with like! (Does that really make sense? I always say it to myself when organizing.)

    P.S. I got YHL book for Christmas!

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  9. Eileen says

    I really like how there are all these little yous reflected in the silver ornaments in the photo of them all in the ziploc bags.

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  10. Liz O says

    We have mostly hallmark ornaments which I keep in their orginal boxes in a bin in the basement. I like having them in the box to keep them save and they all have a “home”. I also like the fact that I get all the ornaments off the tree and none go missing since i know there is one in each box! for none boxed ornaments we have an ornament container with cardboard dividers and those work nicely but I couldn’t imagine storing them all like just because you’d need a bunch of those containers.

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  12. Pat says

    Labeled plastic storage containers are the way to go….been doing that for years. They also stack much better when you have lots of them like we do. I have 3 trees we decorate each year.
    Newspaper is not the best thing to wrap items in though due to the ink. Depending on the ornament and the heat, it can sometimes make permanent marks….not to mention the ink comes off on your hands if you’ve got alot to wrap. Tissue paper is so much better and it’s a great way to recycle that tissue paper you get in your gift boxes.
    (My daughter is a professional organizer….and I like to think I taught her everything she knows!)

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  13. Erin says

    We grocery shop at Aldi. Not sure if you have one there in Richmond. Aldi displays most of it’s non-refrigerated goods in the manufacturer’s boxes. They are always throwing out there boxes so customers are free to grab as many as they like. They come in all shapes and sizes. Some even come with lids and are pretty sturdy. I hit the jackpot when I discovered the boxes for their rolls (I think they only carry them around the holidays though. They are about 18″x24″x6″ and they have a shelf and a lid. The box is a chocolate brown and quite handsome :). I plan on storing my ornaments in them. (Yes, I still have my tree up. Wuah-Wuah.) I think the shelf on the inside is great because you can layer all your ornaments on the bottom and then have a divider for a second layer. Three cheers for no smashed or scratched ornaments… and free storage containers!

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    • Erin says

      I would also like to say that it pains me to see you put away those pretty lanterns after christmas. I would spray paint them a neutral color so I could use them all year long. They would look great on your patio this summer! :) I’m the type of person who likes to get a two-fer with just about anything I buy.

  15. Taya says

    This is the first holiday season my husband and I have been married and living in our new home so we had to devise a plan to store everything in our very small co do. We decided to use the sterilite plastic ornament containers for any ornaments that fit (we have 3 of the containers) and they stack nicely on a shelf in the basement. All our other decorative stuff fits into 1 18 gallon green tote ( our nativity scene, a few larger ornaments, and the star of the top of the tree, and Christmas lights). A few larger items sit on the remaining space on the 2 shelves that contain our ornaments and the big tote.

    It’s interesting to hear about how everyone else stores their holiday cheer!

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  16. Lisa R. says

    We have WAY more stuff than you guys do…we do it up big on the outside though…so we store all our stuff in the garage. When the season is over, we move our cars out, then spread everything out in the garage and sort by like. We use plastic bins to put all the lights, electric cords, bulbs, etc. Then we have shelves in our garage to hold it all. I also hang stuff on the walls in the garage to take advantage of that space…so all my wreaths are hung in the garage, all the bags with rolls of lights in them are hung up, all the candy canes are hung up! So, it is Christmas all year round in our garage! It is kind of cool actually and it keeps things off the floor and not wasting space by trying to put an awkward shape in a bin. Then when everything is put away, we start planning our displays for next year! :) Our tree and inside decor stay the same for the most part, but we like to mix it up with our outside decor!

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  17. Megan @ Rappsody in Rooms says

    That kind of sounds like what I do! Plastic bins are the best. They really do help you stay organized! We have our light bins, our ornaments bins, and then the miscellaneous Christmas decoration bins. We like to keep them all stack in an out of the way corner in the basement so there is no chance of them getting knocked over or banged around.

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  18. Sarah says

    We’ve been slowly organizing our Christmas stuff: paring down, getting plastic bins to keep them in, etc. But this year was the first time we officially got rid of all the old cardboard boxes we’ve had ornaments in for years. One of the boxes is actually at least 20 years old. I had written my name on it in marker when I was a kid, so it was a little hard to get rid of it, but then I realized I shouldn’t be sentimental about a cardboard box!

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    • YoungHouseLove says

      Hmm, well let’s see we only kept a very small amount of things and donated/gifted/auctioned the rest. We kept the gradient dresser, the monument art we did (we think Clara’s big girl room might be a good spot for it), the upholstered lamp shade (since it was our shade and fabric leftover from a Clara pic), and I think that’s it! Oh and the yellow branch mirror – I love that thing for Clara’s big girl room too!

      xo
      s

    • Heidi P. says

      I had to go back and look ’cause I knew there was something recently that surprised me. The bar cart! from your hosting Christmas dinner post. :) Aaaanyway, that’s what made me ask.

    • YoungHouseLove says

      Oh yes! How could I forget that? The cart and the gradient dresser are the two big things we bought/kept. Both very functional, handy, and they were both thrift store steals :)

      xo,
      s

  20. ashley jensen says

    I used to put everything in its origianl container until I this year I bought one of those separated ornament containers from Target for $7 and it was life changing! HA! I love that in one little square I can fit 4 of my small ornaments, and on the top I took out one of the little cardboard pieces so my longer wierd shaped ornaments fit too. Otherwise everything is in baggies or just set down in plastic totes like yours are. Since I am am the one moving them in and out of the attic I am not worried about any of them breaking since handle them gently. Not that the hubs would be rough but we treat out things well!

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  21. Kim H says

    I collect at least one new ornament each year for the tree and after 34 years, I have a lot of ornaments. Each one represents a special year of our life or an event. It’s like taking a walk down memory lane everytime it goes up. I keep the original boxes and that’s how I know I have everything off the tree. I have about six tubs of decorations for Christmas which includes lights and garland for outside. Everything goes in the attic as well and I’ve had no problem so far.

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  22. Breanna says

    Hi there, I am new to what I call YHL =) You both have inspired me so much. I love DIY but I hav enever had the guts or confidence. After browsing through your site I have gone gangbusters =)

    Anyways I am noticing all of your new posts yet you are on your book tour. So I am interested to know if you found the time among all of that to pack your ornaments all tidy or if you have people helping you while you are gone? I am only asking because I am a very busy woman, I work more than full-time, have a baby, and I am envolved in many clubs. I still have my tree up because it is hard to find the time. I am interested in how you are doind this =)

    Thanks for all of the wonderful posts!!!!

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  23. Crystal says

    Oh may god – I love how organized you are. Too cute with your baggies and labels. We use old beer bottle boxes (glass bottles) for storing round ornaments. The boxes are thick and sturdy and the cardboard dividers keep the ornaments in place. The best part the boxes are free! If you don’t drink you can ask a neighborhood bar for a few of the boxes.

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  24. Jessica says

    Totally looking forward to meeting you tonight in Ft. Lauderdale. How are you spending your day in Miami? Are you enjoying the 80 degree weather and our beautiful sunshine :)

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    • YoungHouseLove says

      We have a few work things (phone interview, doing comments, etc) but we had a nice morning walk and now have to take the drive to Ft Lauderdale (we leave in 30 mins so we’re just packing up in our hotel room). Sad to leave Miami so soon!

      xo
      s

  25. Jessica says

    What is your recomendation for people with no attics!? Down here in South FL there is very little attic space in most peoples homes plus we run into the issue that it gets so hot up in the atticks that stuff will ruin. ie candles melting…

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    • Pam the Goatherd says

      When I lived in Miami I stored my Christmas decorations in the laundry room on a shelf above the washer and dryer.
      As far as candles melting in SoFL, the only way to prevent that is to keep them in an air-conditioned part of the house!

  27. Cristina s. says

    So amazing to meet you guys last night! Except one thing (not what you think). NO WORDS CAME OUT OF MY MOUTH! I wanted to thank you both for making it to Miami and sacrificing time away from home to visit your readers :) After reading you for years, way into B.C., I was so happy to meet you both and find you were just as adorable in person. I don’t know why I couldn’t even talk but I’ve compared it to being 4 years old and having Mickey Mouse sign your autograph book. :)

    P.S. thanks for the pillowcase signing!

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    • YoungHouseLove says

      Aww, you’re so sweet! We had the best time last night! Thanks so much for coming out. So excited to see what you do with those pillow cases! Send us pics :)

      xo
      s

  28. Susan says

    I store my special ornaments in the Harry and David pear boxes (our family sends pears to each other every year, so I have a lot of them!). The padding and the little round holes are perfect for breakables.

    And I get the red and green rubbermaid bins on after-Christmas sales. It’s nice to know which are which just by looking at the outside. And I have a lot of bins, so I label them with my label-maker so I know generally what’s in them. That really helps in the years when I don’t want to pull everything out, but I need to find the stockings!

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  29. Lindsey says

    One more tip, I find it helpful to write exactly what’s in the box on a piece of painters tape and stick it on the side. That way if I’m in a pinch I can find the exact item I’m looking for. It’s helpful especially if your Christmas décor mingles with your Halloween décor in non-transparent boxes during the offseason. The tape is easy to remove so it’s simple to update each year. I actually do this for all my storage containers around the house. Saves a lot of effort pulling containers out of tightly packed spaces only to find it doesn’t house what I’m looking for.

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  30. Rachel says

    I do almost the same thing – stick them in a tub. Makes it so much easier to pack. Although yours still looks a lot more organized than the way mine ends up – I might have possibly broken an ornament or two (or five…) And I don’t even have kids yet, ha.

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  31. Nicole @ Liberty Belles says

    this is a great, effective and easy way to store ornaments. can’t wait to become a real person with a house and an attic so I can organize my holiday decorations! Right now all I have is one box filled with random decor. Not exactly fancy but works given what little stuff I have, and the fact that I move from apartment to apartment pretty much once a year.

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  32. Jenne says

    Love all the tips, especially the egg cartons + Solo cups on cardboard! Not to freak anyone out, but spiders & other critters <3 cardboard for food + nesting + laying eggs . . . just something to consider.

    We have a total mishmash of ornaments – breakable, not, photo, glass, etc. In order to preserve the fragile ones, those go up high. To fill in the bottom for the babies in the family, one year I hit the craft stores during 90% off post-Christmas (oh yeah!). They had a ton of Christmas-y floral arrangement stuff left: balls, shapes, faux peppermints, etc. I removed all the wire, and folded over about 2.5-3" of pretty, sheer ribbon & poked it back in the hole in the styrofoam ornament with a skewer. (You could put a dab of glue in the hole first, I guess, but 3 years later, we haven't had an issue.) Clear fishing line for some = looks like they're floating! A quick spray of clear satin varnish (honestly, I think I used hairspray on a couple I found later) holds glitter in place. If kids or animals knock off the ornament, it bounces with no drama. If they pull the ornament off the ribbon, it goes right back in – and they didn't pull over the whole tree (bonus!). If they manage to destroy it – it was $.33, oh well!

    Missed seeing you in Chicago, but love love love the book!

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  33. Tiff says

    I always store all of my seasonal items in the plastic bins. I try to go by color of the season, so Christmas, obviously I use either red or green bins. Right now I have all red for Christmas. For Halloween, I have a blue one but that’s b/c it was on sale. I’ll switch to orange in the future. Our trees stay put up in the basement and then covered to prevent dust. All of my oranments I also put into ziplock bags with like colors.

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  34. Sara says

    We have so many boxes that our holiday items go into! I really want to more clearly organize and label the boxes. That’ll be a goal for next year!

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  35. Tracy says

    Don’t the feather trees get dusty in the attic without being covered? You could put a loose grocery bag over the top of each.

    Are your ornaments the shatterproof type (seems like most are nowadays)? We have so many thin glass ones (handed down from the previous 2-3 generations), that we wrap them all. The “Hallmark” ones do go back in their original boxes (each of my kids probably gets 2 new ones a year from grandparents, and I like to document who the ornament belongs to and what year it was received, so I write it on the box). We probably have 5-6 Rubbermaids for ornaments alone. And 5-6 Rubbermaids for other decor (snow globes, our beloved Heat Miser and Snow Miser bobbleheads, knick-knacky angels/santas/snowmen, jar candles, kitchen tea towels, and other doo-dads… I swear this stuff multiplies!). Then 5-6 larger Rubbermaids for “outdoor” stuff (we use a lot of artificial garland and wreaths on our front porch, and I don’t want them crushed/smashed too much). It all sits in a large cubby closet in a bonus room above our garage, along with all of the other holiday decor.

    We’ve accumulated a lot of Christmas decor (much of it bought during 75% off sales), and I’ll admit we don’t use it all every year. I do get rid of things once I notice I haven’t used them for a few years. This year I kept most of the snowmen/snowflake type decor on hold, and then brought it out after I put the Christmas decor away. No reason we can’t enjoy a little happy snow-inspired decor for the next few months.

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    • YoungHouseLove says

      Nope, they don’t seem to get dusty – nothing really happens up there (gross fact but I hear dust is really skin cells so it accumulates in rooms where you do a lot of living, and we don’t hang out in the attic so it doesn’t seem to happen much). I could always toss a grocery bag over them if it was an issue though- great tip! As for the ornaments, many are shatterproof and many are glass (the very delicate ones are the ones I wrap in newspaper before adding them to the bins.

      xo
      s

  36. Dusty says

    I pack away my special ornaments in recycled Victoria’s Secret gift boxes (festive and sturdy) and protect them with layers of recycled paper from our shredder. Haven’t lost an ornament yet!

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  37. Jenny says

    We pack everything into empty copy paper boxes (we get them free from work and the square corners stack great!) typically by room that are then labeled on the outside. Our stockings and mantel decorations are in 1 box, our upstairs decorations are in another box, etc. This helps when I take things out to decorate and when I put things away. I can do it a room at a time as my schedule permits. The kids ornaments add up so fast it’s hard to keep up with storing all of them.

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  38. sherry says

    Hi,

    Your blog is about home renovation and decoratio. Who cares about how you cut your hair and store your stuff.

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    • YoungHouseLove says

      We love the random stuff too – it’s always had a place on our blog and it’s part of what got us “here.” Heck, that bang cutting post got more than 530 comments – more than most of our home posts ever do! Haha. And storing and organizing is a huge part of making a house a home… at least for organization geeks like us :)

      xo,
      s

  39. leah k. says

    Let me begin… I just wanted to give you mad props for the House of Pain “Jump Around” reference – we love that song here in Wisconsin! And, as I have yet to take down the Christmas tree and put the decorations away, I know what song I’ll be playing while we take care of that chore – thanks for the inspiration to get busy!

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  40. Lizzie says

    Ha ha, I really like this post, some of your ornaments are so pretty!
    Just a question I noticed you added your surname to who the post was by, are you gonna have some guest bloggers or was it just that you fancied a change, ha ha?

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  41. Sarah M says

    I rarely comment… but the idea of just putting the ornaments in plastic bins instead of individually wrapping them is so radical that not only am I commenting, but I sent a link to my mom! I don’t think I’ll have the guts to do with with the breakable ones, but the cloth and wood ones definitely yes… why didn’t I ever stop to think about ways I could organize my Christmas decorations so I don’t dread getting them out and putting them away every year. Game changer!

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  42. Pam the Goatherd says

    (I find it amusing that you refer to all plastic tubs as tupperware!)
    After 18 Christmases under our belts we are slowly getting more and more organized. We started out with one cardboard box that held all of our ornaments, tree stand, tree skirt, lights, etc. All the glass balls go back into the original boxes.
    Over the years, as we collected handmade ornaments done by our three children we stuffed them into gallon zip-top bags. As we outgrew the cardboard box I began buying large Rubbermaid tubs to keep everything in – one a year. We are now up to three 10 gallon tubs. This year, now that the kids are all grown and out on their own, we started dividing up some of the decorations to give to them. We also went through and cleaned out a bunch of stuff that we haven’t used in several years. It’s an on-going process.

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  43. katalina says

    I wrap every single ornament in tissue paper–and then put in the the cardboard dividers in the plastic boxes for my mother…she probably checks and rewraps them all after I leave!

    she has alot of glass ornaments that I would not feel comfortable not protecting from others by jump dumping them all together. only took 1 1/2 hours!

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  44. Cara says

    I bought those special plastic ornament boxes (look like big egge crates a little. I LOVE them! Every year when I get my ornaments out I’m so glad I bought them. Plus the tote specifically made to hold lights. Love it too.

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  45. Stefanie says

    Will you guys always do a themed tree as your big tree? I ask because you’ll find out as Clara gets older and you have more children the number of handmade orniments will grow..and grow…..and grow. lol. We have a very large and full fake tree and at this point it’s a gorgeous mismatch of meaningful things. Plus the kids LOVE LOVE LOVE pulling out the orniments every year and telling us which is theirs, when they made it…etc as we’re decorating our tree.

    Don’t get me wrong..the themes are beautiful but will there ever be a point where your main tree becomes a family affair?

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    • YoungHouseLove says

      I’m sure it’ll all evolve along with us, so maybe we’ll have two big trees instead of one small one and one big one (or maybe the small one will become the theme one and the big one will be our special mixed & matched one). Will keep you posted!

      xo
      s

  46. Carolyn says

    Huh, I never thought to just place the tree ornaments in the plastic tubs. All of my ornaments are stored in their original packaging, which are placed in green and red tubs with the same “like with like” mentality. Doing it that way though, means that the ornaments take up more space so I have more tubs to store. I’m not sure if I’m brave enough to part with the protective packaging!

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  47. Chrissy says

    Our family uses the segmented ornament boxes. We used to store all of the ornaments in their original boxes, but that was just so much work! Most of our ornaments come from special places and times (for every trip, child, etc.), so most of them are not easily replaceable. (We had one casualty this year while taking the tree down; sad!) But all of the rest of the decorations go in normal plastic bins. (I don’t know what we’d do without our countless plastic bins!)

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  48. Kara says

    Do you have any ornaments that have glitter on them? I’m so conflicted about glitter in general. I HATE touching anything that has glitter on them (because no matter what I do, that one speck will find its way to my face and breed into a colony!) However, I love how some certain glittery things look. So when packing them away, I would be afraid to mix different glitter colors up for fear of “cross-breeding” the colors on the ornaments!

    Do you/Would you just let all glitter party it up in the one box?

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    • YoungHouseLove says

      Oh yes a ton of them have glitter! They all coexist in the bin and seem to come out reasonably unscathed each year (probably because they’re not being shaken every day or anything, just placed in there and then they sit still and a year later they come back out).

      xo
      s

  49. Rachel says

    We have one closet that we store all of our Christmas stuff. We layer all of our non-glass ornaments on top of each other, separated by newspapers. The glass ornaments are placed more carefully with bubble wrap in a couple of other boxes. Our other decorations are placed in their original boxes or just placed on a specific shelf in the closet. The lights and cords are placed on their own shelf too. It all fits perfectly now, but it gets more full every year. I’ll have to expand or rethink the storage next year probably.

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  50. erin says

    This has absolutely nada to do with ornaments, but I was wondering if you might know if there’s a Richmond blog network or some event a la BlogHer for local peeps? Hey, it’s 62 degrees in RVA today, so I’m only slightly less jealous of your Florida trip!

    Thanks,
    Erin

    http://www.mommybeerest.tumblr.com

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    • YoungHouseLove says

      Yeah we heard it’s so nice in Richmond! So glad! We’ve never heard of any blog network but if any RVA folks know of one we’d love the details! Spill it!

      xo
      s

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