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Getting Your Attic Organized

With the warmer weather coming soon, it’s time to get in your attic and get everything organized while it’s not too cold or too hot. Here’s a few tips to get you started.

With the warmer weather coming soon, it’s time to get in your attic and get everything organized while it’s not too cold or too hot.

Here’s a few tips to get you started:

Categorize

As we always do with the C.H.A.O.S. Method, categorize all of your items first. Group all of your decor together according to which holiday they are for. Whichever category has the most items get the space closest to the attic door while the category with the smallest number of items goes furthest from the attic door.

Take Action

While you are categorizing, set aside any items that you are not using. Those items take up valuable space and should either be thrown away or donated depending on the item and its condition.

Bins

Now that everything is categorized and you’ve purged any items that you don’t use, it’s time to put all of your items into storage bins. You will want your bins to be plastic and not cardboard (cardboard attracts roaches, yuck!). The bins should also be ones that are easy for you to get in and out of the attic.

Label

Now that it’s all in bins, label everything! Each bin should be labeled with EVERY item that is inside the bin so there is no guessing when you’re trying to find something. For holiday decor, you can also label the bin with where those decorations will go in the house (i.e. mantle, front door, etc.).

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5 Tips to Ease the Pain of Cleaning Up After the Holidays

Hoping your holiday was fantastic. Unfortunately, it’s clean up time! Here are 5 quick tips to help ease the pain of the clean up process.

Happy New Year my organizing friends! Hoping your holiday was fantastic. Unfortunately, it’s clean up time! Here are 5 quick tips to help ease the pain of the clean up process.

5 quick tips to help organize your holiday clean up.

Use clear bins if you can. Being able to see what’s in the bin is very helpful when taking items out next year.

2. Label, label, label! Label each bin with every item inside the bin. This seems tedious but you will be thankful next year. You can use a label maker or use the original label tape….masking tape and a sharpie! If you zone decorate like I do, don’t forget to add the zone label.

3. Using an extension cord reel or any type of cord organizer will help keep your lights from being a tangled mess. Label the lights so you know right where they go next year.

4. Label wreaths and garland with the location where they will be used. I use garland in 3 different spots and each garland is a different length. Knowing where the garland belongs saves us time and frustration.

5. Make sure to take the batteries out of anything being stored.

Once again, have a Happy New Year and happy organizing!

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The Magic of a Travel Christmas Tree

There are great benefits to the travel tree. They represent memories that you can share for generations. Here’s the story behind how we started our travel tree and why it means so much to us and our family!

It was a magical wedding weekend in Medora, North Dakota 28 years ago. I was with my boyfriend, now husband, at the time and was more than thrilled to be invited to his sister and future brother-in-law's wedding. They were married in an amphitheater with Elk running in the hills behind them. The September weather was cool during the day but really cold at night for this Southern Louisiana girl! I didn't mind. I was in love and so excited to be part of something really special as Jill and Tom got married. At the end of the wedding, the family asked me to join them for photos. We weren't engaged. We had only been dating 9 months. I knew right then and there I was making a choice to be a part of his amazing life. It was a moment I wanted to remember but how? Surely not with a t-shirt that would eventually get worn out. What about a travel spoon? I'm not one to like clutter so the thought of spoons everywhere made my head spin. It was then I saw it. The store that would make such a difference in my life. The Christmas Store! I knew right then I wanted to collect ornaments from the places I travel as a way to remember them. My first travel tree ornament was a cowboy holding a Medora sign made out of dough.

A travel tree was not quite what I had in mind when I bought that ornament but as the years passed by, the kids came and we traveled to more and more places....well, the travel ornaments started to dominate the tree. The kids, who hated decorating for the holidays, actually helped to decorate this tree because they loved seeing the various ornaments and chatting about the memories. This time was precious in the midst of holiday chaos! Even today as the kids are grown, they enjoy looking at the travel tree ornaments and telling their favorite stories of each trip we took.

There are great benefits to the travel tree. Ornaments are small and easy to store. They don't take up much room in your suitcase either. They represent memories that you can share for generations. You can't shrink or outgrow an ornament! And best of all, since you only see them once a year, you get a lot of joy seeing them even if you've had them for 28 years! Opening the box of travel tree ornaments is like opening the door to an old friend.

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Christmas Card Clean Up

What do you do with the Christmas card clutter? 🌲🎅🏼🤶🏻Here’s 3 ideas…

What do you do with the Christmas card clutter? 🌲🎅🏼🤶🏻

Here’s 3 ideas.

🌲Use them as the contact photos in your phone! Then they are saved! (And you can toss them after the holiday.)

🌲Punch a hole in the top. Use a ribbon and hang them on your tree.

🌲Tape them to a door frame so they are displayed during the holidays. Take pictures of the ones you want to “keep” and add them to a photo file on your computer. Then toss at the end of the holiday.

Spend 2-3minutes per day to attend to the cards. Don’t forget to toss the junk mail before it even enters your house!