If you love wrapping gifts as
much as I do, you will probably have a shop’s supply of gift wrapping goodies
in your house. These supplies usually end up in
drawers and cupboards and before you know it, it is all tangled up and creased
and of no use to you. The end result = costing you time and money. 2 very
scarce commodities.
My 2 boys are all grown up and
when the nursery became obsolete, I moved the chest of drawers to my office. It
is really a wonderful piece of furniture with so many storage possibilities.
Here are my tips for organizing your gift
wrap supplies. Enjoy!
Organize the supplies into different categories first.
- Ribbon, raffia, twine, rope.
- Cellotape (transparent adhesive tape), double-sided tape, glue and scissors. Buy a pair of scissors for your gift wrapping storage and you will NEVER look for scissors again.
- Tissue paper, gift bags and wrapping paper.
- Greeting cards stickers and envelopes.
- Decorating items, e.g. feathers, beads, crystals, tags, etc.
- Pens and fibre-tip pens for writing the cards or for writing on the gifts
Decide on where you are going to store your supplies. I would recommend your home-office/study area or 1 or 2 shelves in the linen cupboard.
Decide on your type of storage, which is also dependent on where you are storing it, as well as your categories in number 1 above. I used shoebox-style containers for my supplies. This is the exciting part and where you can go wild. Decide on something that will suit your personality and décor style. The possibilities are endless.
- Plastic containers
- Boxes
- Wicker Baskets
- Laundry Baskets
- Mason Jars
- Plastic drawer trolleys on wheels
- Custom-made wrapping stations
Now for the fun part! Add your supplies, per categories to your chosen storage. I also use sub-storage for smaller items. I colour-code my ribbon into smaller containers, which all go together in a box, labelled “Ribbons”.
The most important part and this is where your creativity will come in handy, is the labelling of your storage. It is imperative that you label the storage. Otherwise you will end up wasting time looking for the items in the different boxes and you will be disorganized again, as your categories will go out the window.
Gift wrapping will be a pleasure from now on and you will be much more creative with the wrapping as you know exactly what is available.
I hope that you enjoyed this post and feel free to comment down below if you have a specific area of organization you want me to talk about in future videos or blog posts. Remember to subscribe to my Youtube channel for weekly videos on organizing and check my out on social media. I would love to hear from you.
