Minimizing Your Seasonal Decorations

Love decorating for different holidays but discouraged by having too much stuff to decorate with?  Does the thought of decorating make you tired before you begin? Are you running out of room to store all that stuff?  Want to find a simpler way?  Then it is time to minimize and organize! Less stuff = less stress so  here's a simple way to minimize and organize all your seasonal and holiday decorations now.

Where to start?

• Think about the different seasons/holidays you decorate for and choose which ones you want to continue to fully decorate for (sort of go all out).  We chose Christmas, Easter, and Halloween.
• Decide how many bins you want to have per holiday, and how big they need to be. We purchased 10 gallon bins with locking lids and decided to have one bin each for Easter and Halloween and two bins for Christmas (one for the tree including ornaments, skirt, topper, and lights and one for indoor/outdoor decorations and stockings).
• Decide which holiday/season to start with and take out all the decorations for that holiday.
• Start putting the items you want to keep into the bin one at a time.  When the bin is full you are either done, or you need to take something out in order to put something you want more in!  This is the hard part, but it really makes you look closely at each item to decide what is really important!  It is helpful to have a box ready for all the stuff you decide you do not want.
• Label the "keeping" bin with the name of the holiday and put it on a shelf out of the way until you need it!
• What about what  you are not keeping? Donate or sell them! Check out our Pinterest Board Selling & Donating for ideas on where and how to do this!

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What about the "Binless" Holidays?
These are the holidays you don't go all out for, but still want to acknowledge and celebrate.

• We have decorations for holidays such as the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving, however we don't need a bin because we don't decorate a lot for them. We just change either the pillow covers, the front door hanging, or both!  Oh, so simple!

Christmas Cards: Screw one tiny eye hook into each side of a window (2 total). Hang as many loops of string as needed between them each Christmas. Cards with no fold? No problem, just use a piece of tape over the top of the string! Holiday over? Save the string and the hooks with your decorations for next year! Simple :-)

Keep the decorations for each holiday in a large bin. We use two bins for Christmas: one for tree decorations (skirt, ornaments, star, lights) and one for the house decorations.

We allow one bin for Easter - if it doesn't fit in the bin, then we don't keep it! Notice the bin is labeled?

And we allow one bin for Halloween - same rule, if it doesn't fit in the bin, then it doesn't get to stay!

Hang your door decorations on coat hooks near your door to make switching it easy as 1, 2, 3!

When coats are hanging on them nobody will even know they are there!

A simple way to decorate for the holidays that takes up very little space is pillow envelopes! The pillow stays the same, but the cover changes with the season or holiday! These can even be kept in a drawer if you don't have a bin for the holiday!

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