Holiday Decor Storage Hacks for Easy Organization
Tired of the holiday decor chaos? Discover stress-free holiday decor storage tips to keep your ornaments, lights, and wreaths organized and ready for next year. From smart storage solutions to personal touches, this guide makes packing up the holidays a breeze!
Christmas is over and now it’s time to take down the holiday decor and prep for a fresh start to the new year.
I just love the glow of Christmas decor, the twinkling lights, the warmth of the trees, and the memories we’ve made during the season.
I always get a little emotional when it’s time to pack things up, but with the right storage tips, I’ve learned how to keep our sentimental pieces safe and organized for years to come.
This guide is full of stress-free ideas to store your ornaments, lights, and wreaths so you can focus on saving the magic for years to come.
If you’re here reading this, I’m guessing you share my love for holidays and seasonal decor, and that probably means you have a good amount of Christmas decorations to carefully store away until next season too.
So let’s dive in.
Your Guide to Holiday Decor Storage
Start with Decluttering
At the end of each season, I like to take some time to declutter.
I go through the decor I’ve displayed around the house, as well as the items that stayed in the storage totes, and decide what to keep, what to donate, and what needs replacing—sometimes I even find a few pieces that are too broken to save.
Since we’re a military family and move frequently, sometimes the decor I had used the previous year, doesn’t quite our new house.
And sometimes, my taste in decor has changed and it means it’s time to donate or sell items to give them a second life.
Last year, we had this beautiful Advent calendar displayed on our entryway table, but this year my son gifted me a new one for my birthday. That meant the old one stayed tucked away in storage.
I couldn’t quite figure out the perfect spot for it this year, but I decided to hold on to it for at least another season to see if inspiration strikes next year.
I like to follow a two-year rule when it comes to holiday decor: if something hasn’t been used in two holiday seasons, it’s time to donate it.
Another area I focus on when it comes time for holiday decluttering is Christmas lights.
Am I the only one who feels like Christmas lights just don’t seem to last as long as they used to.
I’ll buy lights one year, and by next season, half of them don’t work anymore.
Don’t hold onto broken or non-working lights, they’ll only add to the clutter. If you come across lights that no longer work, it’s time to let them go.
Invest in Smart Storage Solutions
It was only about three years ago that I started investing in proper storage solutions for my holiday decor.
Before that, I relied on the original boxes or random wicker baskets and just hoped for the best from one season to the next.
I finally realized that my holiday collection was growing and needed proper storage solutions to keep our decor—and the memories attached to it—safe from year to year.
With my growing collection of holiday decor, finding the right storage solutions has made all the difference in keeping everything organized and protected.
Over the years, I’ve discovered a few go-to storage items that have truly simplified the process and made packing up after the holidays so much easier.
Let me share some of my favorite holiday storage solutions with you!
Christmas Tree Storage
It’s time to say goodbye to those flimsy Christmas tree boxes—let’s be honest, the tree never fits back into them properly anyway!
You’ll want to invest in a Christmas tree bag, I’m sharing a few with you below but here are some things to consider.
- Size: You want to make sure the bag you buy/order is large enough to fit your tree.
- Handles/Wheels: This isn’t one that I really would’ve put much thought into but after trying to carry about a 9 ft tree storage bag, I wish I would’ve bought one that had wheels. I can easily carry our 7 ft tree but the 9 ft is a lot heavier.
- Protection Features: Depending upon where you decide to store your tree, you may want a water-resistant bag to protect from moisture, dust, and pest during storage.
- 🌲PERFECTLY SIZED & VERSATILE: Christmas tree storage built with craftsmanship. Generously sized for fluffy tree that can easily fit up to 7.5 ft disassembled Artificial Christmas Tree. The Xmas tree bag is small enough to put away, big enough to hold and protect Christmas tree for the coming year after year.
- 🌲LARGE & UNIVERSAL: The bag is 48″x16″x20″ for 7.5ft tree. The tree storage tote is also an alternative for Xmas decorations, garlands, and lights storage. The premium oxford material provides an excellent water-resistant performance compare to Christmas tree storage box. The Christmas storage bag can protect your holiday decoration from dust, moisture, and even small critters
- TREE PROTECTION – Our Xmas tree bags provide reliable protection, shielding your Christmas trees from damages, dust, and moisture, ensuring they remain in pristine condition and ready to be showcased.
- DURABLE – Crafted from heavy-duty and waterproof polyethylene plastic, our Zober artificial tree storage bags are designed to withstand the test of time, offering reliable durability for many seasons to come.
- GENEROUS CAPACITY: This Christmas tree storage bag boasts an impressive capacity, accommodating a variety of tree sizes up to 9 feet in height. Its roomy interior ensures that your tree, along with other holiday ornaments and decorations, can be stored with ease
- EFFORTLESS MOBILITY: Designed with user convenience in mind, this bag features built-in wheels and strong handles, making it incredibly easy to transport your tree to and from storage locations. No more struggling with bulky and awkward boxes
- Primode’s Xmas Tree Bag saves time, saves hassle, saves room and prevents mess.
- It also protects your tree from getting dirty or dirty when store during the spring and summer.
- SPACIOUS DESIGN: Designed to accommodate trees up to 9 feet, with room left over for additional holiday accessories like tree toppers and lights
- EASY TO USE: Features a double-pull zipper for easy access and loading, as well as multiple sturdy handles for convenient carrying or pulling, making storage hassle-free
Christmas Decor Totes
I love using storage totes for my Christmas decor. There are several options for how to use totes to store your decor.
For instance, my totes are color coordinated, green totes have garlands, and my red totes have general Christmas items, and clear totes for my linens, throws and pillows.
You could also do clear for all your storage needs and label them.
- MADE IN USA: Quality you can trust. Our storage totes are proudly crafted in the USA using high-quality, durable materials, ensuring your belongings stay safe and secure.
- SNAP-ON SECURE LID: The tight fitting lid ensures a secure fit. Ideal for storing all sorts of items like documents, food, clothes, camping, and hunting gear, etc.
- MADE IN USA QUALITY – IRIS USA’s plastic buckled and lidded storage tote is a perfect storage organizer that can fit all your items safely with the anti-break, durable polypropylene material made in the USA.
- HOLIDAY SPIRITS – Feel the joy of the season when you open this storage tote filled with holiday goods. The festive red color makes this storage tote easy to spot and recognize in closets, garages, or wherever holiday bins are stored when out of season.
- Plastic Storage Bins: Be the boss of your home and garage with our 18-gallon tote set. This heavy-duty storage bin set will let you master any mess and become the king or queen of organization.
- Size Matters: Each rugged storage tote measures 23.5″ L x 17.5″ W x 15.5″ H and is made from shatter-, dent-, and blemish-resistant material. It features a tight snap-on lid and comfortable molded handles.
- 🌲PERFECTLY SIZED & VERSATILE: Christmas tree storage built with craftsmanship. Generously sized for fluffy tree that can easily fit up to 7.5 ft disassembled Artificial Christmas Tree. The Xmas tree bag is small enough to put away, big enough to hold and protect Christmas tree for the coming year after year.
- 🌲LARGE & UNIVERSAL: The bag is 48″x16″x20″ for 7.5ft tree. The tree storage tote is also an alternative for Xmas decorations, garlands, and lights storage. The premium oxford material provides an excellent water-resistant performance compare to Christmas tree storage box. The Christmas storage bag can protect your holiday decoration from dust, moisture, and even small critters
- PACK OF 4 STORAGE CONTAINERS: Great for storing holiday decorations, arts and crafts, clothes and shoes, sports equipment, and more in the garage, basement, attic, or any room around the home
- FESTIVE HOLIDAY COLORS: Colorful green bins with red lids make it easy to find your Christmas decorations, lights, and ornaments in storage
Christmas Ornament Storage
Although my store bought ornaments are shatterproof, we have several homemade ornaments that I like to keep safe.
The kids also had their own Christmas trees in their room this year along with their ornaments which meant it was time to get our ornaments organized.
- SPACE-EFFICIENT STORAGE – This ornament storage organizer compact yet spacious design enables the storage of up to 64 ornaments in a minimal amount of space, making it ideal for homes with limited storage areas.
- CUSTOMIZABLE STORAGE COMPARTMENTS – Equipped with adjustable dividers, this storage box solution provides a versatile organization system, allowing for the accommodation of ornaments of various sizes and shapes, ensuring each piece is neatly stored and easily accessible.
- ROBUST AND PROTECTIVE MATERIAL – Constructed with high-quality, durable materials, the product is designed to protect delicate ornaments from dust, moisture, and damage, ensuring they remain in pristine condition year after year.
- Large size: The ornament storage can easily accommodate up to 128 3-inch Christmas balls. Its unique adjustable partition design allows you to flexibly adjust to different sizes of decorative balls, ensuring that each ornament is perfectly fitted and protected. Ornament storage box has two large pockets outside for storing other Christmas items
- 600D Oxford: The Christmas ornament storage is carefully made of high quality 600D Oxford, exquisite and not easy to be broken. The internal structure is equipped with reinforced cardboard inserts to effectively prevent breakage or deformation of the box. The tight-fitting lid effectively insulates dust, dirt and light, protecting your decorations from damage and ensuring that they new every season
- 8 Drawers: The telescopic ornament organizer is designed to be opened on one side and has eight stacked drawers, each of which can be opened individually. This design makes it extremely convenient to store or take out ornaments
- [Space-Saving and Easy to Store]: Measuring 19X14X10 inches ornament storage box can neatly hold 72 3-inch ornaments! Each ornament has its own special tray with adjustable slots to neatly store Christmas ornaments and make the room tidy. It can be easily folded when not in use without taking up space for easy storage.
- [Sturdy and Durable, Excellent Quality]: Our our Christmas decoration storage box is made of durable tear-resistant PE material, which is sturdy and reliable. When storing, it can block dust, dirt and debris from all directions to protect Christmas decorations. The partitions are carefully designed inside to separate the space to prevent the decorations from colliding and breaking, and carefully protect each decoration so that they will still be dazzling in the coming year.
- [Double Handle Design, Easy to Move]: This Christmas ornament storage box is equipped with reinforced seams and sturdy side handles, giving you the freedom to move it as you like without worrying about structural damage. It can be easily folded when not in use. Ensure that you can easily complete the storage and enjoy an efficient and convenient storage experience.
- 【DIMENSIONS】 L13.38” x W13.38” x H14.96”, Christmas ornament storage can hold up to 64-128 decorations accessories
- 【ADJUSTABLE DIVIDERS】The ornament storage box includes 4-layers Removable Cardboard dividers can be adjusted to a suitable size to accommodate ornaments of various dimensions
- 【EASY CARRY】 5 Pairs of Handles, 4 layers storage box and every layer has 2 sturdy side handles for easy carrying when fully loaded; take your diy Christmas storage containers between Christmas storage room and other room or to take it to an outdoor area
- [STURDY CONSTRUCTION] This Christmas ornament storage box is reinforced with durable hard cardboard, with a breathable non-woven fabric outer layer to protect your Christmas jewelry from dust. The lid prevents dust, dirt, and light damage to the decorations, keeping them looking new every season.
- [LARGE CAPACITY] Christmas storage containers are available in two sizes 13.5”x12.5”x13” and 26”x12.5”x13.5”, which can hold 64 and 128 Christmas ornaments respectively. There’s a clear card slot on the outside for easy identification and organization, and the box can be folded flat easily when not in use.
- [WELL ORGANIZED] Our Christmas ornament organizer comes with cardboard dividers to individually organize your decorations and prevent them from bumping into each other or getting damaged. Each compartment measures 3 inches for accommodating most sizes of Christmas balls. By removing the inserts, you can also store larger Christmas ornaments.
Christmas Light Storage
And last on my list is storage for those pesky lights.
I used to just toss them in my tote and hope for the best but I’ve learned it’s better to be organized at the end of the season to save myself the headache at the beginning of the next season.
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- SET OF 8 CHRISTMAS LIGHT HOLDERS: Keep your string lights and electric cords tangle-free and organized. Each cord Holds up to 200 Count mini lights or 100 ft. of extensions cord – Total pack holds 1,600 mini lights or 800 ft!
- MULTI-PURPOSE USE: Holiday storage solution for all kinds of string lights, electric cords, ropes, garlands, and light-weight chains.Christmas light bulbs organizer perfect to have at your house, garage, basement, office, school, boat, and RV.
- Durability and Safety tested for the toughest situations
- Designed in the USA with quality materials
- Specifications: The package contains 3 metal reels to store holiday string lights, which simplifies the packaging and storage of the Christmas light strings. The diameter of reels is 10.6 inch, the width is 4 inch. And the dimensions of bag is 14.5 x 13 inch.
- Storage Christmas Lights: You can put away all the Christmas lights after the holiday, you’ll be able to take them out next year neat and tangle-free. You can store wire, mini lights, string lights, C6, C9 type lights and so on.
- STORAGE CAPACITY: Depending on the type of wire, reel can store between 75 feet and 120 feet of wire. We suggest up to 120′ of mini lights, up to 75′ of traditional christmas lights, up to 150′ of extension cords each of spool.
- SAY GOODBYE TO MESS: Keep your christmas light organized with this christmas light storage, store and organize all your lights or extension cords and accessories in one convenient place. Include 3 reels to ensure your lamp is neatly stored and tangle-free for easy access next year.
- Streamline your holiday preparations with this set of 12 Christmas Light Storage Holders, designed to make managing Christmas lights, extension cords, and garland a breeze.
- This Christmas Lights Storage Holder is an all-in-one solution for your holiday decorating needs. It simplifies the storage of extension cords, garland, and beads, ensuring they’re ready for the next festive season.
Label Maker
This one is totally optional, you can easily use sticker and a permanent marker to label your items but if you fancy something else, these label makers are a game changer.
- 2025 New Version: Compared with the traditional label makers, half weight and size of the traditional label maker, smaller, smarter and convenient for users to carry. Wireless bluetooth label maker can slip into your pocket, allow printing anytime, anywhere. We recommend using our NELKO thermal label paper for good printing quality. Attention: For P21 Nelko APP iOS Users, Please update Nelko APP to the latest version V3.1.0 and iOS App compatibility requires iOS 13.0 or later
- High-quality Printing: Label Makers with BPA-Free Direct Thermal Technology. Equipped with high-speed chips and 203 DPI, you can enjoy high-definition without relying on ink or toner. Label maker built in durable rechargeable battery, it can work for a long time. This label maker is monochrome printout, which only prints black text. We can create color label and need to use color pattern label tapes for printing.（Note: Not including charging adapter, not suitable for fast charging adapter）
- So many uses. There’s no end to the ways you can use your P-touch PT-D210. This label maker has you covered, from file folders or organizing your supplies to clothes storage and more. With its convenient one-touch keys, you can quickly access fonts, symbols, frames, and templates. Plus, you can preview your work on the display, so you will know exactly how your label will look before you print. Compatible Tape Widths – 12mm, 9mm, 6mm, 3.5mm
- Portable, Use it on the go or at your desk. Thanks to its lightweight and portable design, the Brother PT-D210 label maker is an excellent option for when you’re on the go. All you need to get printing are six AAA batteries (sold separately). Want to keep your label-maker close to home? You can opt for the optional AC power adapter (AD-24) and keep it plugged in at your desk for all your label printing needs. In addition, the PT-D210 has an optional protective case (CC-D210) which is sturdy enough for storage and easy portability so you can store batteries and additional tapes when you are on the go.
- Multi-Type Label Compatibility: Supports heat-shrink tubes, continuous labels, fixed-size labels, and cable labels; ideal for home, garage, and office organization
- Rechargeable & Portable: Features a built-in 1200 mAh rechargeable battery with up to 3 months of use on a single charge; lightweight (0.88 lb) and compact (3.35″ x 6.7″ x 1.7″); ideal for on-the-go labeling
- Upgrade Version – The Phomemo D30 Bluetooth label maker supports continuous and fixed-length label tapes. It is half the weight and size of traditional label makers and is equipped with a German thermal print head. Print quality has increased by 25%, providing superior clarity, hassle-free operation, smooth printing, and fast processing
- Save Money with Thermal Technology – The D30 Bluetooth label maker uses inkless printing and doesn’t require ink, toner, or ribbons. With many colorful thermal label tapes to choose from, the overall cost is much lower compared to most label makers. (This label maker only produces black text. To create color label designs, use color-patterned label tapes)
- Ideal For Small Office, Home Office, and Home Organization: a mobile label maker to keep homes, small offices, and workspaces tidy and organized. Powered by 6 AAA batteries or optional AC adapter (each sold separately)
- Prints on Brother Genuine TZe Label Tapes: Create labels that are approximately 1/2 inch (12mm) wide. Easy to peel, durable and laminated labels are ideal for a variety of applications in multiple finishes and colors and can print 1 or 2 lines of text on labels
Wrap Up the Season with Ease
Packing up holiday decor can feel bittersweet, but having the right storage solutions makes the process so much easier—and ensures your treasured pieces are ready to shine again next year.
By investing in proper storage and decluttering as you go, you’ll not only protect your holiday memories but also create a more organized, stress-free experience for seasons to come.
Remember, it’s all about keeping what you love and finding joy in the process.
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Here’s to a well-stored holiday collection and an even more magical season next year! Xoxo- Tandra
