Updated on June 12, 2024
Organized Christmas Lights. Easily organize Christmas lights so there are no tangled messes next Christmas! Recycle your cardboard to wrap up your lights.
Today, I am stopping in to give you a quick tip on organizing Christmas lights. Once you take them off your tree and down from outside, it can be easy to just ball them up and throw them in a bin. However, the following year you have to spend a lot of time untangling everything.
The method I use isn’t pretty, but it is free!
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How to Organize Christmas Lights for FREE
Simply cut a piece of cardboard to approximately the size of a sheet of paper. This is a great way to use up some of those leftover boxes you have lying around from online ordering.
Start at one end and wrap your lights around the cardboard.
You can cut a small slit on either side to slip the cord ends into. Or simply tuck the cord ends in. No more tangled lights when you pull out your decorations next Christmas!
These cardboard sheets are easy to store in a plastic bin or box.
Note: I have since upgraded to plastic organizers for most of my indoor lights. This method has served me well for years and I still use it for my outside lights.
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Havok says
Makes perfect sense! My parent’s always struggle(d) with those flimsy plastic Christmas light bobbin things…that never kept things untangled anyway!! This would be much better, as you could wrap it from one side to the other and not over on itself a jillion times!!