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[Disney Fan]

The house was emptied this morning. . .ack. Not only that but, it's freezing here and snowing! We have rubbermaid totes, and with our storage area of the basement, the tree will just stand at attention until next year (for those with faux trees--is this okay, or am I going to regret this for some reason?).

[Mypasttimes]

Disney Fan, I would cover your faux tree with a sheet...unless your basement is dust free. Believe it or not standing trees will gather dust over the period of a year. I worked at a Christmas store for three years..and we would occasionally strip the trees down and get a yard blower out to dust them off.

To answer Steves question: We store our stuff in the "little house" which is a small house my husbands grandmother lived in. It is next to the in-laws house in town. So we have to shuttle it 8 miles. Two of my full size trees are boxed and the other three I just put in stands in a corner of the house, I dont worry about covering them because we throw them in the back of the pickup and the dust blows on off befrore they get to thier destination. The tree ornaments and MISC STUFF are all placed in The "plastic totes- of varying sizes- Each of the outside of the boxes is labeled with the Room they came out of.Thius the stuff i had to take down to put stuff up can return to its proper place- The inside lid of the box has the Christmas contents listed- not highly specific. But this year I am going to a master coding system with - Letter and number- with letter designating room and a master sheet /I am a little concerned with the quantity of what we have accumalated over 27 years, that I need to do an inventory. I also have a calendar of next year and which rooms will be done in what order so that I may put the first out as the last in when I take it to storage.Something I didnt do this year adn could have saved some time storing it wiser.. knowing that I have 4 boxes for the studio on my master will let me know i have them all to do the job I need. I know this sounds a bit over excessive , but I get joy from the whole process....in fact I will be departing this Thursday to Charleston SC to "unChristmas the Really big house that I decorate on the historic battery. Talk about a system.Have been using master coding on that for last 8 years... It will be a long day of work with a three man crew, but I get to play for three days also, and am a guest in the house while I am there- tough job but somebody's gotta do it(been doing it for near 20 years. To just walk out of my bedroom door onto the porch and watch the sunrise over the Charleston harbor-ITs kinda like living the "travel channel for a few days and knowing "what behind the scenes magic realy means labor wise Next to the AKL its one of my favorite places to spend some time- and its all the more magical at Christmas time.

Oh yeah you asked about storage....oh well just call me rambling PEG

[kimdisneynut]

We wrap our tree up with blankets and store it in our storage unit that has ac/heat with everything on it. Next year just re-arrange a little and presto we up and ready. I have never had the problem with dust yet. I hope it stays this way.

Kim

[Colexis Mom]

We get a real tree, so that is already out back in the woods. All the other decorations get boxed up (into office paper boxes) and are stored in the basement on racks (everything is labeled - lights, bulbs, figurines, etc.) Very easy access and able to find it no problem.

[reinstructor]

We store most everything in plastic containers (6 50+ gal ones and 9 24 gal) put the tree in a storage bag, put all that in the garage. The candles, ceramic pieces, and special decorations go in a closet in the house.

[Perky2sol]

Cardboard boxes for us, and they are stored on shelves in our basement. Haven't done it yet, mind you. On the list for this week. We've been throwing a cold around, so noone has quite felt like doing much of anything. I'll pick at it this week, and then I'm sure we'll wrap up therest of it this weekend. Its a huge job!

[Muffycat]

We have a few rubbermaid containers for the tree decorations. I buy ornaments anytime we are away. Yes, we have a few Disney items. All the ornaments need to wrapped in tissue paper. We also use big boxes from previous presents like the karoeke machine my daughter wanted 3 years ago. Unfortunetly we have a small house so all the boxes get stuffed in the crawl space next to the luggage in our bedroom. Although, we left our outside lights on for another week. I couldn't put it all away just yet.

[poohsgirl]

<font color="purple"> I have one of those heavy duty storage bags especially for Christmas trees and it gets stored in the basement. I have a huge storage bin that houses all the stockings,chochkis(sp?)&amp; stuffed snowmen,santas etc. The ornaments are stored in boxes in my hallway. </font>

[Love 2 Laugh]

We have about 30 of the regular sized Rubbermade totes filled ornaments and decorations and two of the huge ones for garland and other large items. My sister has been giving us Spode Christmas Tree china every year since we've been married and that all goes back into the original boxes in more Rubbermade bins. It all goes under the basement steps or in the basement corner behind the washer and dryer.

[pmlskr]

I am happy to say that my 4 trees are still up. DH says they can stay up until this weekend (when we have more time to put them away.) My Disney tree will get wrapped with a sheet and put in the attic as is. The one in the kitchen will be stripped of all Christmas stuff and left in the corner and adorned with seasonal ribbons and stuff. The 3footer will stay on the radiator for now. The main tree will have to be dealt with: White House ornaments, Longaberger Pewter ornaments and other special stuff is all repackeged into original boxes, glass balls returned, ribbon wrapped . . . all are stored in rubbermaid toted up in the attic. Lights will be torn away this year. Tree boxed and put up until next year. All Christmas baskets will also find their way to the spare room, so I can enjoy them all year long.

Pam

as I reply all trees are plugged in, I will enjoy this as long as possible

[BostonTeaParty]

I was scared to read this!!! Whew! Nothing really serious here thank goodness. Like most everyone, we use the rubbermaid containers for all our decorations.

[DisneyNutMary]

The week between Christmas and New Year's was very rough in my house. DH hospitalized with pneumonia, I had a car accident, etc, so being that I was feeling down, I took down all the decorations while I was home waiting for news on DH. Everything was down by 12/29.
All decorations get stored in a room in my garage, all except my collectible DisneyLand ornament, they will go on display now on a tree like thingy that is designed to display them (does that make sense? )

[Smiley]

You all seem so organized....

I am going to have to go out and get some rubermaid storage bins. I hope that they still have the ones that fit wrapping paper as I bought too much this year and have about 4 rolls that need to be stored.

Maybe if I get adventurous, I will go out tomorrow and see what I can find.

[Teresa]

5 large rubbermaid totes for the decorations and the tableclothes, santa hats, napkins, towels, etc.

2 extra-large totes for some of the animated (Disney mostly) charcters

4 under bed storage boxes of ornaments

5 cardboard boxes of stuff

It all goes in the crawl space (it's sealed, and has never had a leak, so things stay dry)

the artificial tree that we have not had in the house for 8 years is in the 3rd parking space

And, the bad thing? We have MORE Halloween ornaments than we have Christmas!

and 2 cardboard boxes of the foil-link chain my DH has been working on for over 40 years

and one totes of the antique "ball" garland and ornaments from MY great grandmother

oh, yeah, a couple of totes of lights, (flashing, bubble, charcter, steady, purple, multi colored, with music players on the cord, large, and small, white, blue, red)