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Where do you store your Christmas decorations?

  • 20-10-2014 10:09pm
    #1
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭


    We keep ours in the attic


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  • #2
    shamrock55
    Registered Users Posts: 7,208 ✭✭✭shamrock55


    Delighted for you


  • #3
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,720 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    branie2 wrote: »
    We keep ours in the attic

    Spare bedroom wardrobe spaces for me! In it, under it on top of it haha


  • #4
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,523 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Attic!
    It was the spare bedroom back when I didn't have a house with usable attic space. Now everything is kept up there, it just gives me more scope to buy lots of new things every year.


  • #5
    MysticMah
    Registered Users Posts: 61 ✭✭MysticMah


    attic is the best :)


  • #6
    Alicat
    Registered Users Posts: 10,264 ✭✭✭✭Alicat


    In my parents' attic! I'd never be able to keep all my stuff in my little apartment.


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  • #7
    Vojera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,812 ✭✭✭Vojera


    In the hot press! Our tree is only small (4ft) and it folds up really small in its box, and we squeeze all the rest into one other box. We're in an apartment too so not much storage space.


  • #8
    touts
    Registered Users Posts: 6,432 ✭✭✭touts


    Just leave them up next year.


  • #9
    jrmb
    Registered Users Posts: 696 ✭✭✭jrmb


    Wheelie bin


  • #10
    washiskin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,360 ✭✭✭washiskin


    I have 6 very large containers in the shed, some boxes in the attic, some under the bed & one under the bath.


  • #11
    Mr.Crinklewood
    Registered Users Posts: 12,382 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Crinklewood


    Dumbarton


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  • #12
    delw
    Registered Users Posts: 2,655 ✭✭✭delw


    The mam's attic,no room at the inn here


  • #13
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Attic. A couple of years ago I wound the lights around an empty wrapping paper roll with the intention of putting them in the attic and they spent the whole year in the computer room. It was a new level of laziness.


  • #14
    Alicat
    Registered Users Posts: 10,264 ✭✭✭✭Alicat


    I see your set of lights in the computer room, and raise you the entire Christmas Tree (in the box) sitting in the hall from January til it had to be opened up the following December :o


  • #15
    Rubberchikken
    Registered Users Posts: 5,083 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    In the garage. Dont come out til christmas eve.
    Keep the decs in an old wheelie bin. Discourages mice :)


  • #16
    SarahLil
    Registered Users Posts: 1,971 ✭✭✭SarahLil


    In my Mams attic, but will be coming to live with us soon, we moved recently and now have an attic,


  • #17
    AlanS181824
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭AlanS181824


    Up in the attic and in the hot press!


  • #18
    Kevin McCloud
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭Kevin McCloud


    I dump mine every year, like clothes they go out of fashion.


  • #19
    touts
    Registered Users Posts: 6,432 ✭✭✭touts


    Rubberchikken wrote: »
    In the garage. Dont come out til christmas eve.
    Keep the decs in an old wheelie bin. Discourages mice :)

    You don't put up your decorations until Christmas Eve! Are you sure you're in the right forum :)


  • #20
    Speedsie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭Speedsie
    ¡arriba, arriba! ¡andale, andale!


    touts wrote: »
    You don't put up your decorations until Christmas Eve! Are you sure you're in the right forum :)

    Tis the traditional way, decorations up on Christmas eve, down on twelfth night. Any decorations left up after twelfth night have to remain in place until next year.

    We had a Santa on the cooker hood for about ten years as a result of this tradition...... It was part of the furniture & we keep forgetting it.

    Keep the decorations in the attic, except the lights, which are kept in the hot press.


  • #21
    danceash
    Registered Users Posts: 45 ✭danceash


    we keep them up in the attic


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  • #22
    StripedBoxers
    Registered Users Posts: 5,112 ✭✭✭StripedBoxers


    Ours are stored in our store/utility room :) So handy for being able to take them out without having to root in various rooms/places etc :)


  • #23
    SarahLil
    Registered Users Posts: 1,971 ✭✭✭SarahLil


    Speedsie wrote: »
    Tis the traditional way, decorations up on Christmas eve, down on twelfth night. Any decorations left up after twelfth night have to remain in place until next year.

    We had a Santa on the cooker hood for about ten years as a result of this tradition...... It was part of the furniture & we keep forgetting it.

    Keep the decorations in the attic, except the lights, which are kept in the hot press.

    Speedsie I heard keeping the lights out of the attic is better for them is that reason you don't store them up there, I need all new lights this year


  • #24
    StripedBoxers
    Registered Users Posts: 5,112 ✭✭✭StripedBoxers


    One time we took our decs out of the attic and the lights wouldn't work so we had to buy new ones.

    That's why we now store everything in one big box in the utility room.


  • #25
    Speedsie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭Speedsie
    ¡arriba, arriba! ¡andale, andale!


    SarahLil wrote: »
    Speedsie I heard keeping the lights out of the attic is better for them is that reason you don't store them up there, I need all new lights this year

    That's what I heard also, hence they are kept in the hotpress.
    I live in an old house, and the attic can tend towards dampness, so anything that needs to remain dry is kept in the hotpress where it's dry. Keep crackers there too.


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