A very very very very very sad day and a question for you About This Page:

[AKLRULZ]

Boo hiss! Most of the Christmas decorations came down on Friday in our house and both trees are completely down. Yesterday we were out of town so today we begin the process of packing it all up and storing it in some organized fashion so as to make it easy next year to decorate. We also have to run out and buy at least 2 new plastic storage bins for all the new stuff we picked up this year. The house looks so plain now!

So a final Christmas question for the season - where and how do you store all of your Christmas decorations?

[CRCrazy]

I have a bunch of rubbermaid storage bins, including two designed just for Christmas ornaments with the dividers. The tree is emptied into those bins, and the rest of the stuff is all put into the rubbermaids - I have two that are red and green, and I'm up to 3 additional blue ones - The fragile decorations and dishes are wrapped in the towels, and layered into the bins with all the beanies, stockings, etc. Then everything is transported into the storage area in the basement, ready for next year - with the tree stand on top. I agree - my house is starting to look naked - we took our tree and decorations down yesterday - will finish today. Didn't have to add a new bin this year, as I threw my tree lights away - took a note from your book Steve! Several strings only lit 1/2 way, and I couldn't find the blown bulbs. Next year it is new safe lights for us!

[DVC_Don]

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where and how do you store all of your Christmas decorations?


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Down in the basement laundry room. Got a whole wall of plastic bins (cardboard boxes for the 2 trees) piled to the rafters. (there, wanted to use that Pixie one last time)

[ILuvDisney]

I know you're going to die laughing because you already think I'm a hick southerner raised like the Beverly Hillbillies but the Christmas decorations go back in their storage bins and out to the <gasp!!> BARN.

[Dumbo]

The trees go back into their boxes and are stored in the basement along with the lights. Everything else is in a big box stored in a bedroom closet. Most of the ornements are homemade by me so I don't want them downstairs. The angel is stored on the top shelf of my closet.

[Janet 46]

We took our tree down yesterday because we received a new entertainment center and a new TV for the living room. Hubby couldn't put them together until the tree came down and the couch was put back where it belongs, etc. We store all of our decorations in plastic bins and some in regular boxes and everything goes up to the attic.

I'm sort of relieved. Our tree was purchased around Thanksgiving and it was very dry and I was worried about it bursting into flame every time we turned on the lights!

[chezp]

I was pondering this question this morning, when I went to pack the decorations away in the front, spare bedroom and realised they wouldn't fit in the cupboard they came out a few weeks ago. Something to do with buying lots of new decorations and a new artificial tree. I'm still working on the answer...

[statelady01]

We went from one to two ornament storage containers this year- I was delighted when DH said, "Next year I think we are going to need to get a bigger tree." The rest of our decorations fit into three large plastic storage boxes. New Christmas decorations are one of my when-I-graduate-and-make-halfway-decent-I-can-buy-better-stuff things.

[luvnwdwgal]

Fortunately all our Christmas stuff is stored on a big shelf, in boxes, in our back room, so it's not too hard to get down and there are no steps to lug it up and down.

[nightengale1824]

I use big heavy storage boxes that I get at the paper office where I work. They are used for film canisters and work wonderfully. Unfortunately I don't have a basement and they all go into my closet in the very back or under my bed.I agree. My house is starting to look very naked but I am looking forward to getting it all put away and starting on my packing for my upcoming WDW trip.

[TiggGrrrl]

<font color="blue">Joseph is taking down Christmas as we speak We have lots of rubbermaid boxes and some cardboard ones as well in which we store everything and they all wait up in the attic until next year </font>

[Chrissi]

An assortment of storage totes of different sizes and the new boxed pre-lit tree all went up to the storage unit we rent in Mountainhome last week. 3 or 4 boxes total. Not much since we have a pretty small house to decorate. I wouldn't have it any other way.

[LuvMK]

Everything goes into Rubbermaid containers and into a closet.
This year Christmas got moved to the closet under the stairs to make room for the new occupants moving into the "spare" room where it used to be stored!
Can't store it in the attic because it gets TOO HOT and ruins everything!

[LuckyPup]

My very organized mother has come up with a rubber bin color-coded method for storage. All Christmas stuff goes into a red and green bin, Easter into yellow and purple, Halloween is orange and black, Thanksgiving is brown, St. Patricks is green, Valentines is red, and the Fourth of July is red and blue.

How's that for organized (and scary!) ?

[mrsmaup]

Rubbermaid storage containers in teh basement storage room.