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KEEP IT TOGETHER
♦It's helpful to keep all of your Christmas tree ornaments and decorations in
their own
ornament storage boxes. That means keep them in a separate decorations
or ornament storage box from other interior or exterior Christmas ornaments and
decor.
The reason for this is that decorating the Christmas tree is a project in
itself. If you have everything related to that project in one section and/or in
a separate Christmas storage box then you won't have to dig around to find JUST
your Christmas tree ornaments and decorations.
WARNING: FRAGILE
♦Remove the most breakable and delicate ornaments and decorations from your
Christmas tree first. Either pack them away right then or carefully set them
aside to pack away later. You would do the latter if for instance you want those
particular holiday ornaments to go in the storage box last or on top.
The reason that you want to take them off the tree first is simply so you don't
accidentally knock them off while you're removing other tree decorations.
Breakable ornaments would be ones made, for instance, from glass. Delicate could
mean holiday ornaments or decorations that won't necessarily break easily but
that might bend out of shape or get crushed easily.
♦Be sure that you cushion individual fragile ornaments using bubble wrap, a few
layers of soft paper towels or heavy tissue, etc.
♦Or use a
Christmas ornament
storage box with dividers. Many stores sell these customized boxes which are
particularly good for standard size Christmas ball ornaments, etc.
♦Try to put individual delicate ornaments back into their original boxes with
their original custom fitting Styrofoam inserts (yes...easier said than done
sometimes.).
NEXT: CATEGORIZE CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT STORAGE
♦Once you're done removing the breakable and delicate ornaments and decorations
from your tree, start removing and sorting remaining ornaments by category. You
can do this two ways.
1)
One way is to circle the tree and collect all of one category at a time. For
instance, collect all the round Christmas ball-shaped ornaments. Then collect
the little material Santa clauses, snow men, etc. Then take down the flat
material stockings or flat cardboard ornaments. And so forth.
2) The other way is to remove all ornaments from each section of the tree at once
BUT sort them ongoing into nearby piles of categories.
♦Once you have removed all of the ornaments and decorations from the tree, you'll
then pack these sorted piles of Christmas ornaments away in your ornament
storage boxes.
♦While undecorating the Christmas tree, keep your ornament storage boxes all
nearby and open. That way you can put some of the decorations and ornaments
directly into the boxes as appropriate.
♦Use a lot of smaller boxes and containers that fit into your larger Christmas
storage boxes. This method further protects your individual ornaments from
breaking or bending. Of course, it keeps them neatly sorted and organized too.
But this way smaller, lightweight or different shaped ornaments don't get
crushed by their heavier, larger counterparts. Your holiday ornaments and
decorations don't slide around in one big storage bin banging into each
other(which can lead to breakage).
♦If you find that you have extra space in these smaller Christmas ornament
storage boxes, stuff some crumpled newspaper, shipping air packets or even
crumpled paper towels along the inside of the box. Now everything will stay in
place.
♦Label these smaller boxes. (Put a labelmaker on your Christmas list if you don't
already have one.)
ONE FINAL TIP
♦Don't seal and store any Christmas ornament storage box until you're totally
done undecorating your Christmas tree. Why? Because inevitably you'll find an
ornament or two hiding in the branches that you overlooked and needs to go in
box A or box B, etc. Wouldn't that be a hassle if you'd sealed that ornament
storage box, perhaps even put it away already?
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