Christmas Decorations Storage

Cabowich

I've always stored ours in the attic. There are temperature extremes up there, but they don't seem to have had a detrimental effect on the decorations.

I did, however, put a battery operated decoration up in the attic last year and forgot to take the batteries out first. From last year to this, the batteries had all 'rotted' and messed up the decoration. Note to self - take all batteries out first.

Good reminder about batteries. I had a similar experience a couple of years back.

Our Christmas decorations were always stored in the loft. None came to harm in just under 50 years.

As numbers of decorations have reduced they have found new homes under ottoman beds, much easier and safer than me climbing aloft.

I bought lots of Christmassy boxes from Dunelm a few years ago in their New Year sale and I’m so impressed with everything being stored so neatly in a wardrobe in the spare room that I don’t like having to unpack them at Christmas time. If everything went into the loft each year I’d never get them downstairs. Last year was the first time in years that I got the tree out of the loft ( partly because I feared that the dog would eat everything). It then remained in the living room dismantled till this year and I might just remove the ornaments and leave it up till next year but decorate it seasonally…( will get the grandchildren to help me).

Thank you so much for all your replies.

It's good to hear that your decorations didn't come to any harm, those of you that store them in the loft.

If I do decide to put them up there, I would have to rely on my son to take them up and bring them back down again.

I do not own a shed or a garage unfortunately.

Wow that must have taken you ages loopylindy!

butterandjam I would love to leave mine up all year round too. As everything looks so pretty.

Like Blue Saphire, I can’t get storage into or out of the loft since mr I died.

The Christmas decs are in large plastic storage boxes in an unused wardrobe. But I need the space,

Mine are stored in an old cardboard box and live in a high cupboard which I can no longer reach, so I wait until a tall person visits (either of my two sons) to put them away until next Christmas.
Happy New year everyone. 😊

For the fragile tree decs, I have a cube with layers of segregated spaces into which 1 bauble is placed. That is put onto a shelf in a spare bedroom and under the desk is popped 2 big red bags of other house decs.

I know that there are lots of decs in the loft that need sorting out, that is a job for the summer when it is not so cold.