Every year I start to get the house into reasonably-decluttered order in the fall...and then the holidays hit.
This year, I had the idea of filling up the Christmas decoration boxes with regular decor and other stuff, once the Christmas decorations were up.
It's only two small boxes, and within a few minutes I had found enough items to fill them both. This was not just swapping regular displays for Christmas decor, but also making some areas downright austere to compensate for ornamental elaboration elsewhere.
There were a couple of small items that I just put up on the Christmas tree. A few days ago, I moved a wall hanging to the undecorated back entry, to make room for my Christmas sign.
Another idea I had was to put a tray on top of our toaster oven. We don't use it often for toasting, but it always has lots of smaller things on top of it because we have very little counter space. Now it can be cleared off and used much more easily.
Similarly, I put a tray on top of the painted crate we hold to hold tea and teacups, which will make it much easier to plug in the toaster oven when we want to use it.
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