Once the holiday season has gone, you might be wondering what to do with all of your holiday decorations. While it might be tempting to gather all of your ornaments, lighting, and decorations into a big pile and then throw them into a box as fast as possible, this isn’t such a good idea. Throwing all your holiday decorations in one big box will cause major headaches next year when you start decorating for the holiday season and can put your items at risk of damage or loss.
Conversely, taking some time to organize your festive pieces using the right packing materials, containers, and descriptive labels can keep your items safe and help you keep track of them for the holiday seasons to come. Here, Contemporary Management Concepts, LLLP, discusses how to store holiday decorations like a professional in your apartment in Florida.
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Ornaments are notoriously fragile and easy to shatter, especially when they are improperly stored. For ornaments and other highly fragile items, we recommend using a storage container with segmented compartments that will keep your ornaments separated from one another and safe while they are being stored. If you’re eco-conscious or looking for a thrifty option to store festive decorations, you might consider recycling egg cartons and to-go coffee cup holders as individualized compartment trays for your ornaments. If you don’t want to do it yourself, you can purchase an ornament storage box online or in-store.
To organize and store your holiday wreaths like a pro, safely tuck each wreath into a thick canvas bag or plastic case with latch closures. This is especially important if you have a wreath that has fragile details or if your wreath is a family heirloom you want to keep secure year-round. If you have multiple wreaths and you want to store them together, you can tuck away multiple individually wrapped wreaths in a singular container, use sturdy wall hooks to create a display or hang your wreaths in the storage closet using large S-hooks. If you want some added protection while they hang in the closet, wrap them in a bag or cloth prior to hanging them.
As with garland, holiday string lights can quickly transition from a beautiful detail hung around your window frames and tree to a tangled mess. This is especially true for string lights improperly stored. Consider repurposing a large plastic wheel to wind the string lights around, especially for long ones. For shorter string lights or smaller sets of lights, you can repurpose a sturdy piece of cardboard to wrap the lights around until each strand is fully coiled. You can then place each cardboard piece upright in your holiday storage tote.
Wrapping paper isn’t exclusively used for wrapping holiday gifts. It may be used throughout the year to wrap gifts to be given for birthdays, baby showers, weddings, or other occasions. But that doesn’t necessarily mean your stacks of wrapping paper need to be accessible at all times of the year. Sort through your wrapping paper to stay with your other holiday decorations. You can use an all-in-one holiday organizer or a back-of-the-door rack with custom compartments to maximize your storage capacity in a small space.
If you’re the type of person who loves buying a real holiday tree each year, you might not have to worry about storing it once the holiday season comes to a close. But for those with artificial trees, that’s a different story. If you put up an artificial tree each holiday season, it’s probably the largest item you’ll have to store for the rest of the year. Purchase a zippered cover to keep your tree protected and consolidated. After you remove the decorations from your tree, fold the branches down and then put the tree in the zippered bag. Then, you can keep it upright in a storage closet for easy access next year. If you choose to lay your tree horizontally, note that the tree might become crushed by other stored items.