It's the same wonderful dilemma every year. The kids love their new Christmas toys. You wish Santa could stuff more floor space in your stocking. This season, handle Yuletide overload with ideas that include self storage for the kids in your Valley Stream, NY, home.
Tips for Taming Christmas Toys
The best way to organize their things is to reorganize their space. Get the kids on board before the holidays by getting them involved in the process. Ask them to help you set up play zones in their rooms.
Suggest different areas for favorite activities like playing games, sharing action figures and creating original art. Define the new layout with small tables and bookshelves. These kid-friendly storage tips make it easy.
- Get their things off the floor with bright hanging baskets, decorative wall hooks and over-the-door shoe racks.
- Slide stuff under the bed in low-profile wheeled bins with divided compartments.
- Design kid-sized storage units using folding hampers, corner bookshelves, and wall cubbies.
- Fill the cubbies with mini-storage options like mason jars, small baskets, and lidded plastic bins.
The Gift of Giving Things Away
As you work with the kids reorganizing their room, ask them where they'll put their new Christmas toys. Explain that they'll need a plan so that they don't run out of space for everything.
Help them sort and box items they don't mind giving up. Tell the kids they get to play Santa this year by donating their extras to local charities. They learn to appreciate helping others while you teach them how to declutter their rooms.
Storage Units Just for Kids
This Christmas, surprise the kids with their own corner in your storage unit. Introduce them to the idea of bringing one new toy home and moving two old things into their personal self storage space. It's a great way to keep them involved in turning their extras into donations.
Make your storage facility a year-round destination. Save space at home by filling up three or four bins with extra playthings and keeping them in the unit. Rotate one bin each month so that old favorites enjoy a fun reboot.
Sharing New Traditions
This year, give the kids the gift of handling Yuletide overload with room to spare. Put a big bow on your Safeguard storage unit door and make sharing it a new Christmas tradition. Self storage is a special kind of holiday present that everyone can enjoy year-round. Looking for more holiday storage? Reserve a unit today at Safeguard Self Storage in Valley Stream, NY.