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Help with organizing greeting cards and wrapping please!
I have 4 drawers full of greeting cards. (blank) and a giant pile of gift bags, wrapping paper rolls, ribbon and tissue. I use to store it in my office closet. I had to totally empty that closet for my husbands business. Right now everything is in my living room. 
I have the stuff stored in those cheapy ugly plastic drawer towers. Any suggestions on how/where to store? I have empty wall space in my office and I have room in the garage barely. Other than that I have no room anywhere...Help please! I'm totally not good at organizing....
I have the stuff stored in those cheapy ugly plastic drawer towers. Any suggestions on how/where to store? I have empty wall space in my office and I have room in the garage barely. Other than that I have no room anywhere...Help please! I'm totally not good at organizing....
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Re: Help with organizing greeting cards and wrapping please!
I've seen people use heavy duty curtain rods and install them behind a door to hang paper. They then use a mail file sorter to store gift bags.
My gift bags are all in a milk crate and the wrapping paper is in a wrapping paper holder I bought at Target.
First of all, you need to review if you really need all of this, and will use all of this.
4 drawers of blank greeting cards? Like they don't say "Happy Birthday" or whatever? How often do you go out and buy greeting cards with a specific message vs. how often do you just use the stash you have? If you're buying cards and not using your cards, you have the wrong amount in your collection. Imagine how many cards you write per year (even be generous in your estimate) and then multiple by 10. Do you have well more than a decade's worth of cards? That's silly... you won't be interested in them the same way in 10 years.
Same thing with wrapping paper. do you love it all? Do you use it all? Or do you find yourself always rejecting certain ones when you need to wrap?
Same question with bags... can be hard to let go of seemingly useful things, but do you really love them all, are they all in great shape?
Once you fully vet your collection and commit to what you're keeping to use, you can organize by event (birthday vs. christmas vs showers, etc) and organize that way within product.
They make some decent gift bag holders that hang in a closet on a rod, kind of like a garment bag. They also have some that will work with wrapping paper.
As for cards, once you figure out what you want to keep, organize them maybe in photo boxes and keep them accessible on a shelf or something like that.
Good luck!
I bought this and hung it upsidedown and put my wrapping paper rolls through the arcs. Then I bought 2 baskets and hung them one under the other underneath the (upsidedown) shelf and put bows and ribbons and some cards in them. Then, I mounted this on the wall below the lowest basket, and I hung all of my gift bags on them, and between the slanted prongs and the wall, I put folded tissue paper (also being pushed against the wall behind the lowest basket).
Everything was all on the floor in boxes and was really limiting our closet space, not to mention i could never find anything, so I was glad to get everything off the floor and organized. Plus, if we ever decide to move the gift storage space, we can always use those shelves and baskets and hangers for other things in the closet.
Mine is all in a closet - it's organzied, but it is definitely showing, so might not be a system you would want on just the wall of your office.
I went through this with my mother, who could be a charter member of giftbaghoarders anonymous. Big ones, small ones, odd shapes, wine bags (oh, the wine bags... soooo many wine bags). Adn these weren't even the Christmas ones, in their own tote, stored away during the year.
We went through them and started sorting:
1) Which ones are ripped or wrinkled past the point that you'd REALLY use them?
2) Which ones just aren't so pretty; the ones that came in the bag with the other ones that you already used and just neglected this one?
3) Which ones are a specialty, and do you have the right amount of specialty? (for instance, my mother, who has no grandchildren, nor will she ever, had an inappropriate amount of toddler-aged-themed bags. All her nieces and nephews get mailed presents, and giftbags don't work for that. )
4) Sort by category - Birthday, Shower, All purpose, etc. Don't be too specific. Just broad strokes of when you really use bags.
5) Determine how much is REALLY "enough". For example, my mother came up with something like 5 Large bags, 15 Medium bags, 10 small bags, and 20 "souvenier" sized bags, since she's always picking up things for her girlfriends when she travels.
6) Prioritize your "favorites" and stack them Most Loved to Least Loved.
7) Go back to your "enough" numbers, and start making some tough choices.
8) Organize in new holder that makes you feel like you've got a new lease on life and you are no longer a slave to the wrapping jungle!
9) Take the rest and donate them to a local nursing home, children's hospital or other place that could take great advantage of them!
10) Reclaim your space, and make finding what you want so much easier!
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I have an expandable file folder for my cards, and have them sorted- Christmas, Birthday, Blank etc.
I have my rolls of wrapping paper stashed in a pretty wicker basket.
I have one drawer for tissues paper and sheets of wrapping paper. I have another drawer for spools of ribbons.
Thanks for all the suggestions. I did a combination of things. It's not what I would love to have but it'll have to do for now.
I put the wrapping paper rolls in a bin under the bed. I got a 3 drawer storage bin. I put my cards in zip loc bags per category and then placed the bags a drawer. The tissue paper and ribbon also were placed in a drawer. The bin is placed under my desk where there was lots of room. (my desk is big) It seems to be practical since I can get to it easily and you can't really see it so it's not an eye sore. So it's not the most efficient or cute outcome but at least it's out of my living room for now!
I will post if I ever update it to something even better...Thanks for you help!