By now you should know a few things about me, including:
- I love Christmas
- I love making things pretty
- I love organizing
Based on those first two things alone it should be no surprise that I have A LOT of wrapping paper, bows, and tags. I REALLY, REALLY also enjoy wrapping gifts. These things are what led to this mess of items:
Around Christmas I realized that my current setup of wrapping stuff just wasn’t working so I moved it to our extra bedroom and just created a mess that I figured I’d deal with later. I ended up falling in love with a gift wrap cart from the Container Store, however it was almost $200! Even on sale it was way out of my budget, especially for a gift wrapping cart!
I was determined to organize my gift wrapping goodies though so I decided to make my own cart. I headed to Target and picked myself up a 5 drawer storage cart for less than $20. And guess what? It comes with castors so once I added those it was officially considered a cart, just like that $200 one (just go with this…)!
I sorted through my bows and ended up trashing a bunch that were either super smushed or had been used far too many times. I took the gift tags out of their bulky package and put them in sandwich size ziplock bags. I no longer have to deal with the plastic containers that were designed just to make it difficult to access the tags while also expelling a ridiculous amont of glitter on my hands. Woohoo for small victories! I love that everything is together. Before I had too many boxes and they were piles on the top shelf of the hall closet in such a way that when I’d take one down they would all fall on me. Or they’d all fall on Mr. C since I could usually convince him to get the stuff down for me :) I also love that the bows are now in a see-through container as opposed to the huge paper box I had before.
As you can tell I’m persevering with my house organization overhaul. I guess I caught the spring cleaning bug! Have you organized a problem spot of your house? Thank you so much!
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