by Kate Johns

Created on: December 08, 2008   Last Updated: January 01, 2009

Storing Christmas decorations away for another year is very much like tyring to fit a square object into a round container. There never seems to be enough room for all of those Christmas decorations. You wonder if your Christmas decorations doubled themselves overnight, and how they managed to do that. You wonder, how did I fit all of those decorations in this small space?

Decorating your home every Christmas is the fun part, but putting all those decorations away in a major chore. Trying to squeeze them all into that round container is even more difficult. Especially when you live in a home that you call a shoebox, like we call our home.

Here are some time saving, storage tips for all those Christmas decorations:

MAKE ROOM

To make more storage room for those Christmas decorations you may have to thrown some old items out. All of our Christmas decorations go right under the stairs, in a walled in space, all very organized and arranged just so. You can do this too, with an extra closet, or attic space not being used. To be able to utilize the space under the stairs, I had to go through all the old clothing and items I was keeping and give them away and throw them out. I wanted to keep the kids old baby clothes forever. But with a 17 year at home, I knew it was time to finally get rid of his baby stuff.

GET RID OF IT

Every year, go through your Christmas decorations and give away some items. You can keep them in the family by giving them to your adult children, or a brother or sister. When you buy new Christmas decorations make sure that you get rid of some of the older decorations. That way, it will be easier to store the items, because you will less to store away. Consider giving away an older Christmas tree and buying a live tree every year. That way you won't have to store the Christmas tree every year.

SAVE ORIGINAL BOXES

Keep the original boxes that the Christmas decorations came in. Use those boxes for storing your items in. The boxes can be placed into a carton, a larger box, and storage containers. These boxes will protect your Christmas decorations such as all those breakable ornaments, from impending doom. Your Christmas tree box should be kept for the life of your tree. You can store the tree in that box along with the directions for putting up the tree. Even several strings of lights can be placed in the original tree box.

ORNAMENT STORAGE CONTAINERS

Ornaments need to have their own storage containers, so that they don't break. What we did one year was we

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