Hints for Safely Storing Christmas Decorations

You enjoy the Christmas season, but do you also enjoy the hassle of putting away decorations each year? Maybe not. Holiday glass ornaments and other decorations packed in a hurry can be a real

pain to untangle and organize. Worse, as you unpack, you may discover that a beloved Christmas decoration was a victim of bad packaging.

There are a number of simple and fast solutions to ensuring the safety of your fragile Christmas decorations during storage. Keep reading to find out how we recommend putting away your breakable Christmas decorations.

What to Do with Breakable and Glass Decorations

Use these do-it-yourself storage solutions to protect your breakable glass decorations and light bulbs:

The Use of Recycled Egg Carton Packaging

Reusing an old egg carton is a creative and environmentally-friendly option for storing fragile glass decorations. Simply insert one ornament into each empty egg. The egg cartons can then be stacked and stored in a box once all the decorations have been taken down.

This solution prevents ornaments from colliding and breaking by assigning them each a specific spot.

DIY Decoration Rods

Wooden dowels can also be fixed in large containers and used to display ornaments.

Wooden rods can be easily installed by drilling holes perpendicular to one another along the length of a big plastic storage container, allowing a dowel to run the entire length of the container. A wooden dowel’s tip needs to fit snugly into the hole. Insert the dowels into the holes, and then secure them with glue.

Once the wooden dowels are in place, you may hang ornaments from them using spare Christmas ribbon or hooks.

If you want to use this method, remember to protect your more delicate glass decorations by wrapping them in tissue paper or keeping them in egg cartons at the bottom of the container. This will save delicate decorations from colliding with one another and shattering.

Lights Made from Recycled Coffee Cans for The Holidays

Are you sick and tired of untangling the Christmas lights every year? You may try draping your lights over empty coffee cans instead of buying new ones. Using this strategy, things can be neatly packed away and unloaded with no effort.

Separators made from cardboard that are manufactured to order

Use any spare cardboard you have laying around to make your own ornament boxes. Split the cardboard in half lengthwise and score one side. Make the slits equally spaced and large enough to accommodate an ornament.

Using the slits as guides, arrange a few strips in a box so that there is space between each one and an embellishment can be placed in between. Then, to make a grid, put more strips with the slits facing down. It’s important that the cuts in the upper and lower strips meet.

Considering it’s handmade, the partition can be altered to match any preexisting box. Buying a unique box to put things in is unnecessary.

Don’t want to try fixing it yourself? Several kinds of christmas ornament compartments and holders can be purchased online. A lot of these containers have transparent partitions built right in for convenient storage. With this choice, you can see your ornaments through the container and easily keep track of their individual locations.