Organizing Christmas Decorations: How I Do It

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Organizing Christmas Decorations: How I Do It

By Mandi Ehman • January 3, 2009

In this week’s vlog, I invite you inside my home as I pack away all of my Christmas decorations, organizing them to make my life easier when it’s time to unpack them next year.

Note: As this was my first vlog in this series, I didn’t know that my camera can’t handle recording my voice when I stand too far away, so I apologize if I’m hard to understand in some places. I’ll be sure to do it differently next week to try and avoid that!

(Please note that there is an embedded video in this post. You may have to click on the post title to see the video!)

Categories: Christmas Decorations

About the Author

Mandi Ehman

Hi. My name is Mandi and I’m an organizing junkie. I’m also a wife, and Momma to four little girls (5.5, 4, 2.5 and a baby!). I've worked at home since our oldest was a baby, and like a lot of other moms, my life is a constant balancing act of caring for my family and my home, meeting my obligations and finding time for hobbies in there somewhere. Oh, yeah, in the interest of full disclosure, I’m somewhat of a kitchen dunce and I only like to pretend that I’m crafty. Read more here!

5 Responses to “ Organizing Christmas Decorations: How I Do It ”

Brittany Jan 3rd, 2009 at 1:49 pm

Here’s a great idea for Week 2: Come to Brittany’s house and see how to take down and store her Christmas decorations! (Yea…they’re STILL up…lol)

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Organizing Your Way | Make It Happen Monday: Packing and Storing Christmas Decorations Jan 5th, 2009 at 5:35 am

[...] Saturday I invited you into my home while I organized and packed up my Christmas decorations (in five minutes [...]
Melissa M. Oct 18th, 2009 at 10:19 pm

Thanks for the tips.

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Chris B. Dec 31st, 2009 at 7:20 pm

I just finished going through all my Christmas boxes, getting rid of stuff we never use and organizing everything. I’ve thrown away all my paper boxes and bought new plastic bins. Our decorations are stiil up (except for the tree and ornaments), but I’ll be taking everything down and packing it away tomorrow.
I love this article, Christmas doesn’t have to be a nightmare!!!

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Deborah Cobb Jan 21st, 2010 at 10:55 pm

Hey Mandi,
I organized a friend this year and that is exactly how I did it, even before seeing your site. I do understand how frustrating it can be when it doesn’t fit the “system”. Here is an idea for you nativity what if you wrapped itin red paper so it matches the red storage bins. You could actually do that for anything that doesn’t fit. That way it would stand out as Christmas. Just a thought.

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