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Christmas Storage Guides

The six category pages tell you what to buy. These four tell you how to get the whole house packed away in an afternoon, and where each thing should actually live.

Storage buying decisions are per-category: a tree bag is sized differently from a wreath container, which is sized differently from a bin. The pack-down itself is not. It is one continuous job that runs from the top of the tree to the last label on the last box, and doing it in the wrong order is what turns two hours into five.

These guides are that job. The pack-down checklist is the sequence to follow while you work. How to store holiday decorations is the same method as a reference you can look things up in. Attic versus garage versus basement answers the one decision that matters more than any container you buy. And labeling is the ten minutes at the end that decides how long next December takes.

Every one of them carries the products that genuinely help at that step, with live prices where our feed has them, and none of them will tell you that you need a product where you do not.

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The guides

Hands packing and taping a storage box

Guide

How to Store Holiday Decorations

The complete method across all six categories, in the order they come down, with container sizes for each.

Pick on that page: Sterilite 27 Gal. Stacker Tote

Inside dimensions: 20.1 x 14.1 x 18.9 in

Writing a label on a storage box with a marker

Guide

The Pack-Down Checklist

The full afternoon, in order, with the buying decision and the time-saving check at each step.

Pick on that page: Sterilite 27 Gal. Stacker Tote

Inside dimensions: 20.1 x 14.1 x 18.9 in

An attic loft space with storage boxes between roof beams

Guide

Attic vs Garage vs Basement

What each location does to decorations over ten months, and which items belong where.

Pick on that page: Rubbermaid Roughneck Storage Tote, 25 Gal

Inside dimensions: 21.3 x 14.8 x 16.3 in

Writing a label onto a storage box with a marker

Guide

Label It So You Find It Next Year

The labeling system that survives a real attic: what to write, where to put it, and the inventory sheet.

Pick on that page: Sterilite 66 Qt. ClearView Latch Box

Inside dimensions: 19.9 x 13.4 x 12.9 in

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A disassembled artificial Christmas tree with its branch sections laid out on the floor

Category

Christmas Tree Storage

The tree is down and the box it came in fell apart three years ago

Top pick: Zober 600D Oxford Large Christmas Tree Storage Bag (9 ft)

Bag dimensions: 65 x 15 x 30 in

Glass Christmas baubles packed into a divided box with tissue paper

Category

Ornament Storage

Something broke in the attic last year and you never found out which box

Top pick: Simple Houseware Heavy-Duty Ornament Storage Box (128)

Capacity: 128 x 3 in

Rolls of wrapping paper stacked together on a plain surface

Category

Gift Wrap Storage

The rolls are bent, the tape is gone and one of them has a crease down the middle

Top pick: Zober Underbed Gift Wrap Organizer (40 in)

Organizer dimensions: 40.5 x 14 x 6 in

A Christmas wreath lying flat on a wooden table before being packed away

Category

Wreath & Garland Storage

The wreath came out flat on one side and the garland is a knot

Top pick: Zober Christmas Wreath Storage Container (30 in)

Container dimensions: 30 x 30 x 7.4 in

A coiled string of Christmas lights on a wooden surface

Category

Christmas Light Storage

Two hours of untangling before a single bulb goes on the tree

Top pick: Zober Christmas Light Storage Bag with 3 Metal Reels

Strand capacity: 240 ft

Plastic storage bins stacked on a garage shelf

Category

Storage Bins & Totes

Six identical bins in the attic and no idea which one has the stockings

Top pick: Sterilite 27 Gal. Stacker Tote

Inside dimensions: 20.1 x 14.1 x 18.9 in