Christmas Storage

Saturday was take-it-down-and-put-it-up day!  I store all our Christmas stuff in a small attic space behind my daughter's closet.  Almost everything is in Rubbermaid  containers, which stack nicely and keep things nice and safe.  Over the years I've labeled using masking tape, label-maker labels, handwritten labels, you name it.  But this year I thought I would be cute and brilliant and make labels using shipping labels and the computer.

So I was feeling pretty clever and had things stacking up quite nicely and almost ready to carry upstairs.

But then. Gasp. Look what started to happen!

And then....

What to do?  Pull out the packing tape and slap it on.  Say goodbye to the brilliant, clever, lovely look of all those neat, untaped labels. Remember that the whole point of the labels is to identify what is in the container and nobody, literally NOBODY, will lay eyes on these for the next 11 months!

You think my perfectionism gets in the way of my organization?  Hmmmm.....

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Oh Drats!  I wanted to do my first official Works for Me Wednesday post but just realized that the Mr. Linky thing closed at 8 pm tonight.  And it's after 11:00.  I'll be quicker next time!