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January 2008 – If your house is like mine while preparing for this joyous season, it’s a flurry of baking, gift wrapping, card addressing and distribution, along with all of the decorating that helps make the holiday season more festive. This article gives you hints to organize your holiday decorations, including some ‘green Christmas’ ideas.
in a hard to reach area since they are used so infrequently. Ours are packed on plastic bins under our basement stairs. We avoided catastrophe last year when our powder-room toilet leaked right into that area. The water pooled on the lids but did not penetrate to affect the decorations. Try weather and critter-roof bins for storage in garage if the space in your house is at a premium.
They take up too much space. Try using larger decoration boxes that go on sale during the holidays and may be reused each year to avoid waste.
 Green tip: Reuse tissue paper for gifts each year but if there are too many rips or wrinkles, put aside to wrap up special decorations to protect them during storage.
boxes by use and colour scheme. Some years you may choose to not use certain decorations and this will avoid searching through unnecessary storage boxes.
with the appropriate decorations. It makes preparing for the next holiday season much easier.
Save left over wrapping to use as packing material for any gifts you need to ship to another location throughout the year.
Most of all, remember to decorate your home to set the right mood for your family to have a happy holiday season. The holidays are not about keeping up with neighbours, family and friends for who has the larger light display. Every bit of energy we save helps our environment.
From the Dewling home to yours – JOY AND PEACE over the holidays and in the New Year!!
If you have a storage or home maintenance challenge and need ideas to solve them, or if you have a comment about how some of my ideas have worked for you, email me.
Article by Sheri Gammon Dewling
Markham Organizing Maven
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