Where do you store your Christmas decorations?

branie2 · 20-10-2014 10:09pm #1

We keep ours in the attic

shamrock55 · 20-10-2014 10:11pm

Delighted for you

Loughc · 20-10-2014 10:52pm

branie2 wrote: »

We keep ours in the attic

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

Posy · 20-10-2014 11:18pm

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.

MysticMah · 20-10-2014 11:41pm

attic is the best

Alicat · 20-10-2014 11:59pm

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

Vojera · 21-10-2014 12:00am

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.

touts · 21-10-2014 7:18am

Just leave them up next year.

jrmb · 21-10-2014 7:31am

Wheelie bin

washiskin · 21-10-2014 8:31am

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

Mr.Crinklewood · 21-10-2014 8:32am

Dumbarton

delw · 21-10-2014 1:01pm

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

Toto Wolfcastle · 21-10-2014 8:10pm

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.

Alicat · 21-10-2014 8:14pm

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

Rubberchikken · 21-10-2014 8:16pm

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

SarahLil · 21-10-2014 9:21pm

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

AlanS181824 · 23-10-2014 12:46am

Up in the attic and in the hot press!

Kevin McCloud · 23-10-2014 12:50am

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

touts · 23-10-2014 6:47am

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

Speedsie · 26-10-2014 6:24pm

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.

danceash · 27-10-2014 1:54pm

we keep them up in the attic

StripedBoxers · 29-10-2014 4:55pm

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

SarahLil · 29-10-2014 9:58pm

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

StripedBoxers · 30-10-2014 12:45am

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.

Speedsie · 30-10-2014 2:53pm

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.

Where do you store your Christmas decorations?

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