If your shoes and boots are piled up haphazardly in the closet or tossed alongside the halls, you may want to invest in a shoe rack. Placed in an entrance, they encourage you to put your footwear neatly on the rack and off the floor, so that you are not stepping on a pile of shoes when you walk in. The amount of tiers the rack should have is totally dependent on how many pairs shoes and boots you and your family wear.
Three tier entrance shoe rack:
Three tier entrance shoe rack pictured: Seville Classics Resin-Wood Composite Utility Shoe Rack
Round cardboard hat boxes
You might think that round cardboard hat boxes are only good for keeping hats stored away in a closet until ready to be worn again, and you would be half right. Hat boxes can also be a great way to keep and store other items like greeting cards, fabrics, lingerie, socks, children’s clothes and whatever else you can fit inside. The smaller hat boxes can also be used as gift holders like a hat box of home-made cookies or assorted jams and what-not.
Round cardboard hat boxes:
Round cardboard hat boxes pictured:
Left: Black with Black Ribbon Hat Box – 13 x 8- sold individually
Right: Darice 8/9/10-Inch Paper Mache Round Box
Wrapping paper storage container
If after the holidays, you have a bunch of wrapping paper that you can use again for birthdays or other gift giving holidays, storing it somewhere can be a bit tricky since you might not want to toss the paper in the closet. A simple solution is to buy a wrapping paper storage container that you can simply slip underneath your bed, under a couch or high up on a shelf. In that container you can also keep a pair of scissors, tape, ribbon, labels and gift tags so you don’t always have to look for them when you need to wrap up a few more gifts.
Wrapping paper storage container:
Wrapping paper storage containers pictured:
1- Household Essentials Holiday Wrapping Paper Storage Box, Red with Green Trim
2- Gift Wrap Storage Bag – Red by Richards Homewares
3- Dyno Seasonal Solutions Zip-Up Gift Wrap Storage Tube with Storage Compartment for Scrapbooking, 45-Inch
4- Homz Holiday Wrap Organizer 17.2″ x 9.8″ x 34.8″
