These are very nice but I'm so glad I decided I didn't need all this Christmas crap cluttering up my house anymore. So the lights, decorations and fancy-schmancy storage units for them were all sold in a garage sale. Bah humbug!

I came so close to buying one of those ornament storage boxes until I realized that the dividers are made out of cardboard! I could have made my own but since most of my ornaments are small I found a fab solution, two words: egg cartons!
For larger ornaments, the safest way to save them is actually in the boxes they came in which are usually designed for heavy wear like shipping. I work in a store that sells Christmas ornaments and at the end of the season, back into their boxes they go!
My parents store their ornaments in the type of divided corrugated boxes used to ship wine bottles. You could use those for stemware as well, also they are free. I just can't fathom paying for cardboard.

It's not time yet! I want to enjoy my tree and ornaments and twinkly light just a bit longer....

I have one huge plastic tub for the porch decorations, and five mid sized plastic tubs for the tree ornaments, mantle decorations, and miscellaneous things. (The only reason I need so many is some things are "fluffy" -- Moravian stars etc.-- and need air space to protect them from breakage.) They sit on utility shelves in the garage the rest of the year. Cheaper than these specialty items. (My wreaths, I have a year round collection that I have made, hang on nails on the garage walls.)

Hah! I got rid of my Christmas tree on January 1st, and I used cardboard for home-made "Christmas Light Reels". Exactly the same shape although perhaps not as pretty as those featured here, but they did not cost me a cent.

The storage solutions do not come cheap - I know that cheap/expensive is a relative term, but I prefer to use boxes that I have as opposed to spending money on new stuff.

I have spent 300$ for decoration
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