Organize your Christmas-y Things and More!

I’m telling you, January brings out the organizing in all of us!

Ok, in some of us.

Maybe just in me then.

So here I am with another organizing tip that I hope will save you (and me!) some head-banging when Christmas 2017 approaches.  Years ago I had cleaned up our basement (*don’t look at it now*) and I had beautifully labelled every box.  Then we needed more storage space so I became ruthless when going through those boxes and I didn’t update the labels.  So when Christmas came around and I was looking for my decorations, in one box marked ‘Christmas Lights’ I ended up with photo albums (*cue a few choice curse words – and then a few more*)

This year I’m changing that!  Enter these beautiful $6 bins from Walmart:

And the colours!!!  There was more selection in store (I can’t find them online) but Walmart is starting to look and feel like Target.  Not quite there yet but from what they’re selling, it won’t be long.

Now with pretty bins in tow, I set out to take down and organize all of the Christmas-y goodies I put up for Christmas 2016:

And I created labels so that I know what’s actually in them.  You can download them here (I created two versions: one with my colour palette and a black-and-white version):

So what do these bins look like in their new home?

MUCH better.  Don’t they look like jewels in a sea of brown boxes?  I’m hoping these pretty bins will inspire me to clean up the rest of the boxes in the basement…

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