Packing Christmas… Welcome New Year!

December 26, 2009 by Nikki 

Christmas has come!  And now it is gone!  I had a wonderful Christmas!  With two children in the house it is always a magical time..  Seeing Christmas through their eyes is a great gift!  But here we are now… The end of December!  And I personally am ready to get my house back in order.  Don’t get me wrong, I love Christmas, I love Christmas Decorations.. But as you may guess, I am not a big fan of clutter.  And right now I feel a little overwhelmed by all of this Christmas stuff… My house looks like a Toronto came through it!

So like many of you, I am spending the next couple of days cleaning, packing up, and organizing my house back in order.

Here are some great tips on how to organize your Christmas Decorations..

1.  Group into Categories-  Group your decorations the way it makes most sense to you.  Here are some suggestions:  Outdoor decorations, Tree Ornaments, Holiday Cards, Decorative Items, Linens, Wrapping Items.  Another way to group is to put your decorations the way you have them displayed, for example; all decorations in the kitchen go into one box, all decorations in living room go into box B and so on.

2.  Take a picture of how you decorated and put it in the box with the decorations.  This will make decorating next year very easy!

3.  Obtain appropriate containers-  So many stores are having great sales on storage items, and they have great products just for lights, wreaths etc.  But before going out and buying a bunch of new product, take inventory of what you currently have.  So many times we buy what we do not need.  And make sure to measure and only buy containers you can move easily when filled with items.

4. Pack up what you Love and what is not Broken- If you found items you did not use this year and do not plan on using them again, this is the time to donate.  Don’t waste the space.  Check the lights, there is no sense in packing up lights that no longer work.

5.  Label your Containers-  It will make it so much easier to decorate and find that special something you are looking for next year.

Happy Organizing!

December 26, 2009 by Nikki  · Filed under: Holidays · Tagged:

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