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nd friends i do try to add a few new things and change up things a bit but for the most part these decorations are part of my christmas traditions and bring back a lot of treasured memories i post 3 times a week on monday thursday and saturdays as always click on each picture if you would like to enlarge it pinterest if you would like to pin my pictures please click on them to enlarge them to do so a note about comments i enjoy reading your comments and will return the favor by visiting and commenting on your blog or reply to you directly here if you do not have a blog but i do have my comment section set to moderation due to spammers and hackers so your comment will not appear immediately and since i have a very busy life like most of us do it may take me awhile to return your comments but i promise i will in my last post i shared my annual winter heart month home tour for 2026 along with a few gifts for my birthday and new buys click here if you missed that post i want to thank all the hosts of the you re the star month long link party for choosing my blog post snow ice tree in a winter woodland den as one of their featured posts for home week thanks so much michelle lisa kris angie colleen and bev please stop by and link up to this lovely party and now for a few personal notes for the new year i am trying something different with my 3 times weekly posts on thursdays i will feature what i cooked and ate during the week showcasing local cuisine and a few recipes for things that i actually made i decided that on saturdays i will showcase what i have been up to in the past week sharing events and places i went to if any on mondays i will be featuring what i have bought or been gifted recently if anything today is thursday so it is time to share some food my son joey treats on fridays and since last friday was the first one in lent and i will not be eating meat on fridays til easter he brought home ny style pizza from one of our local favorite places serpico s a plain pie and a mushroom one last saturday i made a roaster pan of a pasta bake with ground turkey sauce sour cream mozzarella cheese american cheese ziti and seasonings it was very good my neighbor mehrukh brought over this luscious piece of red velvet cake with cream cheese icing and filling on tuesday evening for joey and i it was her husband mo s birthday it was delicious they are now celebrating the entire month of ramadan ramadan is quite similar to the catholic s lent fasting and abstinence is also involved but much more strict then our catholic rules on fasting fasting during ramadan a core pillar of islam involves abstaining from food drink including water smoking from dawn to sunset for a month usually 12 15 hours daily this practice cultivates spiritual reflection self discipline and empathy for the less fortunate the fast is broken with an iftar meal while suhoor is eaten pre dawn so as the sunset starts to set later in the day they fast longer no food or drink even water i am posting on wednesday rather than my normally scheduled thursday because happy rudolph day rudolph day is celebrated the 25th of each month most will share something to do with christmas on rudolph day in the 16 years that i have been blogging i am constantly asked where do you keep it all over many years people have questioned my maximalism this is the ai definition of maximalism maximalism is a more is more design philosophy contrasting with minimalism by embracing color pattern and texture to create rich personalized spaces it focuses on curated individualism rather than chaotic clutter utilizing bold art layered textiles and personal collections to tell a story popular in interior design and fashion it highlights self expression i love that it highlights self expression nothing against minimalism for those that embrace it but it is just not for me first i am going to show you how i store ornaments for my seasonal trees many many years ago i bought a card board ornament box with cardboard dividers for the christmas ornaments for my only christmas tree after a few years those card board boxes had seen their last day so i decided to save those card board dividers toss those the cardboard boxes and go with tubs so i cut the dividers to fit into the tubs i am able to store all the decorations and ornaments from my 7 ft tree in the living room for christmas in one tub saving ornaments in the indiviual boxes they came in and even in the boxes that maybe 6 10 ornaments came in take up too much room i will put several nonbreakable ornaments together in one section this is the second layer now the divider for the 3rd layer i made myself from cardboard boxes using the original dividers as a template in this layer i store larger items storing ornaments in the order i put them on the tree with those that go first on top i also store the beaded garlands bow and streamers of ribbon in this tub any overflow like the forals that i tuck into the top of the tree and all around the tree will go into another tub i have 2 slightly smaller tubs for the dining room 6 ft pencil thin tree the first one is all ornaments and the second tub holds the remaining ornaments and the rest of the decorations for the tree i am also able to fit a wreath and a sign into this tub so i know you are wondering if i have have breakage of ornaments almost never so much so that i even store my vintage shiny brite ornaments for the smaller tree in the living room in this manner i have 3 of these ornament boxes bought a very long time ago this is the container that i store the decorations from my kitchen tree in i also use these containers for the powder room tree and my bedroom tree now you all know that i have decorated trees up year round for the 7 ft seasonal living room tree i have made more dividers out of cardboard boxes and have an ornament tub for each holiday and season that i decorate this tree for i keep up the 6 ft pencil thin tree in the dining room for heart month so i also have an ornament tub for that holiday for the smaller trees that i keep up that i do not have a large amount of ornaments for i use a box and put one layer of ornaments and then a layer of bubble warp and another layer of ornaments i then can put that box into a tub with other decorations for that season or holiday okay with all that being said let me show you where do i keep it all in my 1700 sq ft townhouse without a basement okay you can pick yourself up off the floor now i have been told many times that i must live in a big house to have so much stuff nope but i do make good use of the storage i have and made in my townhouse especially since i do not have a basement storage under the stairs i always say this is hidden storage this is my hallway closet my coat closet take all the coats out and this is what you see take that trap door out and look my hot water heater but over across from the hot water heater is all this storage i use this area for storing my christmas village pieces and other heavy items that would kill me if i lugged them upstairs and then up the attic which i will get to shortly these are 5 medium sized tubs that i have most of my christmas kitchen decorations stored in as they are heavy consisting of a lot of ceramics these are the tubs from my christmas village and other living room decorations along with these 2 boxes of sam s club ceramic sets all of this fits into this storage area under the stairs and there you have it before i go any further let me tell you to get rid of all the original boxes that decor items came in because they take up too much space you can wrap those items up in bubble wrap and put them together in tubs i just got rid of a lot of the boxes that my christmas village houses came in as they were so old that they were falling apart and guess what i had an empty tub left over as i put the boxes into the tubs the attic let me warn you that there is nothing glamorous about this post shortly after we moved in to our townhouse we had the attic floored and instead of using the tiny trap door in one of the closets in the master bedroom we had pull down stairs installed in a different area of the master bedroom to provide an easier access up to the attic i dabbled a bit and cut out images from a wall paper border to dress up the pull down up a bit our eldest son joey asked if i was going for a sistene chapel look lol this is actually the 3rd set of pull down stairs that we have had installed in 30 years the first 2 were wooden stairs which both broke because of the heavy use so we opted for the more expensive metal set of stairs and so far they have held up without any problems you can see that they are in an area of our bedroom which provides easy access up and down some of my neighbors installed them in the upstairs hall way where for the most part attic pull down stairs are installed but that really limits the amount of space around the stairs so it was my idea to have them installed in the bedroom after all i am a carpenter s daughter i do want to add that i am able to walk around up in the attic but in a slightly hunched position i have a small stool up there that i can move around and sit down on and work from it was easier for me to go up there as i am used to it because every time my late husband joe went up the attic he impaled himself on the nails from the roofing or fell down the stairs lol the attic has a 20 by 16 ft section that is floored the roof truss system in the attic has very nicely created sections which makes it easy to organize when storing things by not putting the pull down steps in the hallway which would put the stairs smack dab in the center of the attic they were able to put the steps in one of these sections and they fit perfectly again that was my idea for christmas decorations i store decorations from one room and sometimes 2 rooms depending on the amount of storage containers in each section this makes it easier when decorating as i bring down only the decorations for the room i am decorating at the time and then put those containers now filled with the everyday things from that room back up into the attic in the section for that room up in the attic are 2 large tubs that stays up there and i just empty them out up there in laundry baskets rather then lugging these large tubs up and down from the attic one is for the kitchen and i store my kitchen santa s florals garland etc in that one in this section at the far end to the right of the attic is where the remainder of the kitchen decorations are stored that did not go underneath the stairs there is only another red tub of things i left out for winter decor in the kitchen after christmas and the ornament container the other large tub that stays up the attic for the living room florals garlands and swags this large tub is slid far back in the section for the living room in the section next to the kitchen is the dining room christmas decorations in the section to the left of that one are the living room christmas decorations the next section to the left is used to store the decorations from the den and the powder room the den go in first and then the powder room decorations there is a middle aisle in the attic with the truss system sections on both sides so i have plenty of sections where i store the rest of the christmas decorations for the upstairs and the easter fall halloween patriotic under the sea and early fall apple decor for the kitchen i also have 2 toy chests that i dad made up the attic and they fit perfectly in a section created by the truss system one was mine as a child and one is the one he made for my sons holiday linens are stored in those my storage shed 28 years ago when my mother passed away i inherited her bedroom set a vintage waterfall set she lived in a senior citizen apartment and we only had 2 weeks from the date of death to clear our the apartment that she lived in for 17 years after my dad died so joe and i rented a storage shed to store the furniture and other things that i needed to store until i could bring them to my house we ended up keeping it as we stored all of my son s toys in the shed all outdoor furniture all the outdoor decorations and other things too large to store at our house now joe was in charge of the shed which is the size of my dining room 10 by 10 needless to say joe was not as neat and organized as i am this is what i found after joe passed away almost 2 years ago yikes this is what it looks like now slowly i have been throwing things out and passing things on to family and friends i still need to decide on whether or not to keep a few more things and i still need to go through this side as all my son s toys are in the back corner i also no longer take all the outside furniture down to the shed which is about 5 8 minutes from my house i bank them up against the back of the house and cover them one of my intentions for this year which i still need to do a post on is to be able to drop down to a smaller shed a 5 by 10 one that will save me almost 60 a month and one last storage trick i store things in plain site i have 2 large round tables one in the living room and one in the den that i had covered with floor length tablecloths i store things under both of those tables under the living room table i stored the heavy seashell items and lighthouse that i made from clay pots from my late summer under the sea theme i store 2 smaller trees under the den table along with a few christmas den decorations also in the den you have seen my china cupboard and the vintage suitcases underneath and in front of it there is one of these book boxes on top of one of the suitcases after christmas most of the figurines from inside the china cupboard are stored in this box there is another box on top of the computer armoire and i store more christmas figurines from the den in that box i also use the suitcases to store away christmas decor using them to store my regular decor in after i decorate for christmas so there you have it that is where do i keep it all i think i have made pretty good use out of the little space that i do have one of my favorite you tubers is brittany blane in this video she shares a lot of her storage ideas for those of you who have larger homes with garages and basements this video of brittany s shows her amazing garage with all her storage tubs and shelving i wish i had this much space to use for storage i hope that maybe you will pick up a few ideas from this post on storage and using the space that you do have to the max and i also hope i have finally answered the constant questions as to where do i keep it all doubt it lol i hope you will come by and visit again on saturday for my next post and try to find joy in every single day stay safe healthy and most of all happy thanks to those who took the time out of their busy day to spend a little bit of time with me if you do not have a blog please give me some way to reply to your comment 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