Christmas day is long gone and soon you will have the pain of taking down all the Christmas decorations and cleaning up all the shredded gift wrap paper lying around the house/office. Solution – Real Simple has a pretty extensive guide posted for doing a better job at storing your holiday decorations—be they big, fragile, or just hard to stash away.

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Instead of throwing away used gift wrapping and tissue paper, run it through a paper shredder and use the fluffy strips as packing filler when you’re putting away your decorations
Neat idea, and it saves you the cost of bubble wrap. How do you pack away your decorations once the gifts are all opened? Share your storage space secrets in the comments.
Storing Holiday Decorations [Real Simple]