via Real Simple
It's time to start putting away your holiday decor and Real Simple has a number of article on their website here that gives you ideas and hints on holiday storage solutions.
My tips:
- Store individual strands of lights in plastic grocery bags. This minimizes the tangles to one strand only. Some how winding the strand around a tube doesn't really work for me. But, this trick never fails.
- Set aside and label a strand that is incomplete to be used for replacement bulbs for next years strands.
- Buy needed holiday items NOW while the sales are happening and store as you put away this years decorations. You can't beat a bag of 100 bows for 10 cents. I just bought a new table cloth and set of 8 napkins for $10 that can be used year round.
I like wad all the lights up into a ball and throw them into a box - at least that's what it feels like every year when I'm putting up the lights. Oh!
ReplyDeleteI do wind the lights for the tree on an extension cord holder and then unwind it as put the lights on the tree.