Christmas decorations storage

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What do you use? Have you found a specialist solution?
I didn’t have time to put things away properly last year & haven’t had enough time to take them out properly this year. I am fantasising that there is a storage solution that will fix this.
currently it’s a huge cardboard box with smaller boxes and bags inside, but it’s a right jumble just now.

The brilliant A Place for Everything:

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I bought some bauble storage bags last year. They're OK although a bit annoying that my baubles are different sizes and the compartments are all the same size. Mine are the soft ones like this link although the hard (and more expensive) ones are probably better.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/GEEZY-Christmas-Storage-Handles-Baubles/dp/B07Z3SG16T/ref=asc_df_B07Z3SG16T/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=407892815272&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=13023959178275091559&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006688&hvtargid=pla-860975074551&psc=1&mcid=a96c6bf69561348c98f61b506aba353d&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=87652332455&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=407892815272&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=13023959178275091559&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006688&hvtargid=pla-860975074551

After years of trial and error I finally found the perfect solution for ornaments. Styrofoam cup packing sleeves. Cheap and available in bulk and easy to replenish as needed if one tears after a many years of use. Every ornament gets tucked into a sleeve. The sleeves get tossed haphazardly into big plastic tubs. No official ornament storage seems to acknowledge that most people have a variety of decorations on their tree, not a bunch of uniformly sized balls.

Old cardboard fruit delivery boxes with individual compartments for each bauble — plus some gift wrapping tissue to keep them snug in each space

Something like this

I got some great sturdy bauble boxed from Dunelm a couple of years ago. They are fantastic. I see fabric ones but they aren't as strong or sturdy.

Like this but mine are red

https://www.plasticboxshop.co.uk/craft-storage-boxes-c4/compartment-boxes-c37/large-upcycled-organiser-box-with-24-divisions-p4612

I have a tons of the really useful boxes and you can get different sized insert trays.

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/9485530?storeID=403&istCompanyId=a74d8886-5df9-4baa-b776-166b3bf9111c&istFeedId=30f62ea9-9626-4cac-97c8-9ff3921f8558&istItemId=ppxaqmxam&istBid=t&&cmpid=GS001&$ja=tsid:59157%7Cacid:844-913-7556%7Ccid:20349574791%7Cagid:%7Ctid:%7Ccrid:%7Cnw:x%7Crnd:16559928120280343350%7Cdvc:t%7Cadp:%7Cmt:%7Cloc:1006706&utmmsource=Google&utmmedium=cpc&utmmcampaign=20349574791&utmterm=9485530&utmmcontent=shopping&utmcustom1=&utmmcustom2=844-913-7556&GPDP=true&gadsource=1&gbraid=0AAAAAD9II9kfZFnE5jJH7ttTf9K1Hf08E&gclid=CjwKCAiAyp-sBhBSEiwAWWzTnsFBLQlpwX44VR7pPIMDWIvYgE0HBem6zZ9knlfqz1174srm5eqwsBoCzugQAvDBwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Great bunch of ideas thanks, I know thee is google, but it’s always useful to see what works for people and why :)

I keep my decorations in the original boxes / tubes they came in and then the smaller boxes are stored together in a large box. I'm very good at Tetris style packing. DH's decorations are chucked together, by him, in a plastic carrier bag which is bunged in the loft.

I have some in original boxes but many were just wrapped in a bit of tissue or are child made, so many sizes and shapes. Odds and sods like teddies and books. I really need to lay it all out this year & see what’s actually there, chuck the rubbish etc.

We have a 350l storage trunk from b&q that ho,ds everything and goes in the loft

https://www.mrcrimbo.co.uk/

i bought a great bauble storage zip up box thing from here, only £15!

What are these things please? I can't picture them.

Egg cartons are good for little ones.

I have a couple of Wham storage boxes I bought from Wilko a few years back. These I think. Bigger ornaments, fairy, etc. go underneath. Then I have some old Jacob’s cracker tubs with big baubles in. I don't really have any big glass baubles though - they'd be a bit trickier.

Homebase have previously left out the cardboard bauble storage out for free so we grabbed loads of them. They all go in the really useful boxes.

I am imagining something like the stretchy things some apples (usually pink ladies iirc) are packed in. They’re a kind of styrofoam net.

Ah yes - thank you!

Most of my baubles are odd shapes and sizes so bauble boxes don’t work. After a couple of attempts I’ve settled on ikea samla boxes. The plastic in them is very durable and they don’t degrade or deform in the temperature changes in my attic. And I didn’t buy boxes bigger than will fit through the attic trapdoor and I can carry myself. I use tissue paper to wrap the baubles, sort them into the dc’s and our collections and add a damp trap to each.

Garlands and wreaths go in plastic storage bags (ikea dimpa), Christmas tree back in its box.

Anything that didn’t make it out gets a hard look over and packed up to donate but it sits in the attic until early November.

I put the boxes away in a specific order so I can pull it out section by section. When the dc were small and prone to pick up every bug going, I liked to have an early December box with things like the advent calendar, a couple of books, dvds (what are those again?), crafts etc, at the front so I could grab that even if I didn’t have the energy to put up the tree.

Now I have boxes organised by rooms so I only take down what I need to do a room at a time and then pack away extra vases, pictures, throws in the same box and put it back in the attic. It’s made decorating feel more manageable and I’m not stepping over empty boxes for two days.

I use a wine delivery box for mine. I just wrap the glass baubles in kitchen roll or tissue paper to protect them a bit more. I can fold or remove sections if needed for larger decorations