By the end of the Christmas season, I am ready to just throw all the decorations in bins and leave it as a problem for future me. I haven’t gotten any of the decorations out yet so I figured it might be fun to see just how inconsiderate past me was to future me.
There was a time when I wrapped all of our Christmas lights around coat hangers so they wouldn’t tangle. There was a time I had just 1 bin of decorations so I knew everything was together.
It’s been years since then. I’ve accumulated a ton of decorations, whether through buying them myself or getting them second hand from my mother in law. So the organization isn’t great, but it’s working…enough.
Here’s how we stored our decorations from the 2024 Holiday season!
Outdoor Decorations
We have a bin for all of our outdoor lights which just had everything thrown in Willy-Nilly. We have these gorgeous vintage looking multi colored bulb lights that luckily aren’t terrible to untangle. We also have smaller white stranded lights for our white columns and some pretty sad looking garland that I replaced the white lights with last year because the white stranded lights aren’t quite the right colors.
We also have our cute candy cane path lights, and we always replace our garage lights for the season. The bulbs change from white, to green, to red.
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Indoor Decorations
The indoor decorations are where I’ve lost my marbles.
I have them organized by tree, kinda. We have a taller 8.5ft tree for downstairs that my mother in law traded us for one of our 7.5ft trees. (shout out to her!) So I keep most of the ornaments and lights in a bin along with the tree skirt and angel. I have a bag that goes with the tree that has the wooden beads, ribbon, and some extra ornaments.
The next bin is for our other tree. This one has a Grinch theme so it has all the ornaments, ribbon, and tree skirt as well.
I have a little bin full of more sentimental ornaments from my and Jake’s childhood.
Then we have a random assortment of stuff in our attic (which we were told was not meant for storage but come on. What’s an attic for if not for seasonal storage??)
Up there we have our 3ft nutcracker, our 7.5ft tree, a nativity sign, and some other random things that we ran out of space for in the bins.
It’s not pretty. It’s not aesthetic. It’s random bins we bought when we first moved into our house…but it works! Everything is here and we survived getting it all back out.
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