Organize Christmas Decorations With These 8 Simple & Easy Tips

Organized – a word most of us strive to be but many find difficult to do. Below are some simple and easy tips to help Christmas 2023 and beyond get a little easier and faster. With these simple tips, you’ll be able to save lots of time when getting ready to decorate next holiday season.

Most, if not all of these tips can be applied to other areas in your life, e.g. Halloween décor, winter clothing, shoes, etc. So, here goes, feel free to share additional ideas you may have at the end.

1. Use Clear Plastic Bins

Using clear plastic bins enables you to see what’s inside easily allowing you to access what you need without having to open or label the bins.

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2. Use Large Clear Plastic Bags

To conserve space within clear plastic containers, or, if you have space available in a bin, or, if you have a limited number of bins, use large clear plastic bags to separate like items within the bin and to use up valuable space.

3. Money Saver Tip – Recycle

I’ve never purchased clear plastic bags or bubble wrap. I just save large clear plastic bags that I get when ordering items online. Or, keep the bubble wrap you might get from your orders online, you can even make bags out of them to keep your fragile ornaments or decorations. Recycle! Recycle! Recycle!

How do you make the bag? Just fold a rectangular sheet of bubble wrap to the desired depth and use clear tape to secure the opposite lengths and leave the opening at the top. If you wish, you can leave a few extra inches of overlap at the top to close by folding over and taping it in place. See the diagram below for clarification.

4. Organize by Color

If you’re like me and you have a large number of ornaments, organizing by color can help you save lots of time, especially the next year when you’re starting to decorate. You won’t have to go through the trouble of separating colors, instead, you’d just be picking the bins or bags with the colors you’d like to use.

5. Keep Like Items Together

This is another time saver. Instead of searching and separating things, pulling the bin with your picks or ribbons is a much faster process. Here are some categories for bins you may find helpful below.

• Lights, Extension Cords, Adaptors & Timers
• Ornaments
• Ribbon
• Picks & Sprays
• Candles
• Candleholders
• Tree Skirts, Santa Hats, Stockings & Christmas Table Runners

The above are just suggestions. Find solutions and categories suited to your needs that work for you.

6. Keep Boxes For Breakable Items After Purchase

Most breakable Christmas decorations arrive in boxes with molded Styrofoam especially when they’ve been ordered online. Keeping those boxes allows your decorations to be safely stored for later use.

7. Use Colored Dot Stickers

You can go one more step to keep your decorations in boxes organized by adding colored dot stickers to the cardboard box indicating the color of what’s inside, that way, you’ll save time because you won’t have to open them to check.

8. How To Keep It Organized

Wherever you keep your Christmas decorations, whether it’s in the attic, the basement, a closet or a room keep all the decorations organized within that space by following a few simple tips:

• Keep all the Christmas decorations in one section of the room instead of putting them where you can find space. By doing this, the next year you’ll be able to find everything you need for the festivities quickly in one location.

• Some may disagree with me on this tip and there is no right way or wrong way it’s just a personal preference but I prefer keeping organized with boxes and containers as opposed to bags. They’re stackable and help save space rather than bags which are bulky and irregular in shape.

• With this in mind, if you recently purchased an artificial Christmas tree, or, if you intend to in the future, do not throw your Christmas tree box away. Store the tree in the same box you purchased it and secure it closed with bungee cords. The boxes tend to be sleek and narrow in design and take up a very small footprint as opposed to Christmas tree bags which are bulky and consume a lot of space.

• Also, here’s another tip, some have problems keeping the tree’s branches together (which is the reason they can’t get it back into the box), secure them to the center of the tree using bungee cords as well. Just be careful when using them, remember your physics: with every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. So, if you don’t secure the bungee cord properly, the opposite end can come back to hit you in the face. Remember always – safety first.

Thanks for reading. If you need help taking your Christmas decorations down now that the holiday season is over be sure to take a look at the takedown services we offer in Montgomery County, Maryland, or, if you have other awesome Christmas decoration, storage, or organization ideas, I’d love to hear them, feel free to comment below.