styxgirl
Pearl Clutcher
Posts: 3,867
Jun 27, 2014 4:51:44 GMT
|
Post by styxgirl on Mar 29, 2024 1:14:44 GMT
So excited, my eldest DD is graduating from college a year early and is moving back home to being her new job ... In the three years she was gone, I put just a few Christmas things in her closet ... LOL (In my defense, we weren't 100% she was moving back home, but I am THRILLED that she is! ;-)
This year, I moved ALL of the X-Mas stuff from it's home under the stairs that has access through my husband's "office" in the spare basement bedroom.
I want to put it all back in there, but HE FILLED IT UP over the holiday season, with who knows what!! LOL
Where do you keep your Christmas crap? I not sure about the garage or attic because of temperature and humidity fluctuations. Summer is hot and humid. Winter is COLD!
Do you keep your stuff in at attic or garage? If so, is your stuff OK?
|
|
|
|
Post by katlady on Mar 29, 2024 1:18:47 GMT
We keep ours in the garage. We’ve never had a problem with things getting ruined. But then, we don’t have lots of humidity. The garage does get hot on hot days because we have a west facing garage. But that is maybe 1-2 months a year. And we rarely get freezing temperatures.
|
|
|
|
Post by quinlove on Mar 29, 2024 1:31:58 GMT
I don’t have a garage. It’s just me here with 3 bedrooms, so I have plenty of room to store my stuff. 1 room is kind of a catch all. 2 bedrooms are all set up to be used as bedrooms. I switch sleeping between the two. 
|
|
|
|
Post by fredfreddy44 on Mar 29, 2024 1:40:25 GMT
In our attic. It does get hot and it is all fine. I've managed to pare it down to a tree and 6 boxes.
|
|
|
|
Post by myshelly on Mar 29, 2024 1:41:51 GMT
I keep 95% of it in the attic. It’s fine, no issues. No issues with the tree, ornaments, fabric stockings, etc. It’s all in those big Rubbermade totes and the plastic ornament boxes (the ones with the cardboard dividers).
I keep some very old, fragile, vintage things that belonged to my great grandparents in a cabinet inside the house.
|
|
|
|
Post by lisae on Mar 29, 2024 1:43:24 GMT
The attic for everything except candles. We've been here over 30 years and it has been fine.
|
|
breetheflea
Drama Llama
Posts: 5,890 
Location: PNW
|
Post by breetheflea on Mar 29, 2024 1:49:06 GMT
The attic, for the past 11 years and never had a problem with the temperatures affecting anything. It would be a lot easier to get it out/put it away in the garage, and it hurts my back to be in the attic too long so the kids are in charge of dragging the stuff in and out.
The only thing that doesn't go in the attic is the nativity set I inherited from my Grandma.
|
|
|
|
Post by calgaryscrapper on Mar 29, 2024 1:50:10 GMT
My parents kept theirs in the attic and labelled the boxes. We keep ours in the storage room downstairs, a few years ago I decided to keep the tree in the back of DD’s old walk in closet on the main floor.
|
|
|
|
Post by Linda on Mar 29, 2024 1:50:56 GMT
The Christmas totes are in the closet under the back stairs (inside the attached garage). Before we moved into this house, I stored them in a shed in the yard (we're in Florida - no heat damage except the white tabletop tree yellowed badly).
|
|
|
|
Post by Scrapper100 on Mar 29, 2024 2:10:16 GMT
We keep everything in totes in the garage. It’s gets hot but it’s attached to the house snd doesn’t get above 90. I actually open the door to the house when it gets about 80 since we have a freezer in there. It gets down to about 50 in the winter.
|
|
|
|
Post by cmpeter on Mar 29, 2024 2:13:39 GMT
Ours is in the storage area of a partially finished basement.
|
|
TXMary
Pearl Clutcher
And so many nights I just dream of the ocean. God, I wish I was sailin' again.
Posts: 2,799
Member is Online
|
Post by TXMary on Mar 29, 2024 2:22:20 GMT
We've kept ours in the attic for many years with no issues and it gets very hot here. The older we get the harder it is to get it all down the attic stairs. We have a LOT of Christmas decorations. This year we moved it all to one of the storage buildings on our property. It will be so much easier to get it all out now.
|
|
|
|
Post by 950nancy on Mar 29, 2024 2:25:56 GMT
We have a long hallway with about 40 feet of storage. It has nice thick wood shelves along all of it. I can store totes 4 tall. Just one area of it (14' long x 4' deep x 8' tall) holds the Christmas totes. Under the stairs holds the trees and wreaths.
|
|
|
|
Post by gracieplusthree on Mar 29, 2024 2:40:43 GMT
Spare bedroom.. don't even take the tree apart,it stands in there all year(undecorated)
|
|
mimima
Drama Llama
Stay Gold, Ponyboy
Posts: 5,017
|
Post by mimima on Mar 29, 2024 3:04:39 GMT
The tree goes in the garage but the rest I store in our primary bedroom closet
|
|
|
|
Post by ntsf on Mar 29, 2024 3:04:47 GMT
I have one bin and one box and they live in the damp basement.
|
|
hannahruth
Pearl Clutcher
Posts: 2,612
Location: Adelaide, Australia
|
Post by hannahruth on Mar 29, 2024 7:22:05 GMT
I keep our Christmas (along with every other box of decorations - Easter, Halloween) in the garage in plastic totes. I have relevant linen, crockery and glasses for each celebration in tubs as well.
|
|
anaterra
Pearl Clutcher
Posts: 3,833
Location: Texas
Jun 29, 2014 3:04:02 GMT
|
Post by anaterra on Mar 29, 2024 7:47:58 GMT
In a storage building behind our house... we also have a tote for halloween and then a tote that is spring.... it has valentines easter and other springey type deco... so when we put up the Christmas stuff we bring in the spring tote... and by we i mean dh... lol
We also store our winter clothes and huge winter blankets out there...
|
|
|
|
Post by lainey on Mar 29, 2024 7:49:03 GMT
In a drawer under the bed, there isn't much of it.
|
|
|
|
Post by leannec on Mar 29, 2024 9:16:21 GMT
I'm in a condo and I somehow managed to score a pretty big laundry room!  All of my decorations are in Rubbermaid bins stacked in the laundry room along with the 7 foot tree in a "tree bag".  |
|
|
|
Post by littlemama on Mar 29, 2024 10:21:00 GMT
In the basement.
|
|
|
|
Post by monklady123 on Mar 29, 2024 10:28:19 GMT
We've always kept ours in the attic. The only thing I did't put up there were candles because of the summer heat. Everything else has been fine, through cold winter and our horrible summers.
|
|
|
|
Post by airforcemomof1 on Mar 29, 2024 10:49:14 GMT
Here, there, and everywhere it seems but mostly in the garage.
|
|
3boysnme
Full Member
Posts: 141
Aug 1, 2023 13:28:26 GMT
|
Post by 3boysnme on Mar 29, 2024 11:43:05 GMT
We don't have a garage, and our attic is too hard to access. So I keep our holiday stuff in the basement on a shelf. I run a dehumidifier down there, so everything appears to be good. No mold growing, so that's good.
|
|
scrappert
Prolific Pea
RefuPea #2956
Posts: 7,760
Location: Milwaukee, WI area
Jul 11, 2014 21:20:09 GMT
|
Post by scrappert on Mar 29, 2024 12:07:05 GMT
In an old house, I kept it in the attic since there was no room in the basement, it was finished basement and that was where the main living space was and not real storage place.
I did try to keep candles separate because those did not so well in attic! Everything else was fine.
In this house, it is all in the basement.
|
|
iluvpink
Pearl Clutcher
Posts: 4,281
Location: Michigan
|
Post by iluvpink on Mar 29, 2024 12:14:48 GMT
In this house we keep everything in the basement. But in our previous home where we lived for almost twenty years we didn't have a basement or much storage room in the house. All of our Christmas decor was stored in the rafters of our garage. The only thing we had issues with were the candy canes we put on the tree, they melted. We had reused them as why not, we weren't eating them. After that we just stopped using them until we moved here.
|
|
|
|
Post by KikiPea on Mar 29, 2024 12:37:04 GMT
In the garage on a shelf, and the majority in boxes in the attic. It gets really hot here. Nothing has been damaged except for the random candles that snuck up there. Those stay in the house.
|
|
peabay
Prolific Pea
Posts: 9,598
Jun 25, 2014 19:50:41 GMT
|
Post by peabay on Mar 29, 2024 12:47:35 GMT
Basement
|
|
|
|
Post by iamkristinl16 on Mar 29, 2024 12:55:17 GMT
We have a crawl space in our lower level/under the kitchen that we use for storage.
|
|
SweetieBsMom
Pearl Clutcher
Posts: 4,600
|
Post by SweetieBsMom on Mar 29, 2024 13:02:26 GMT
Basement.
|
|
