{"id":647,"date":"2010-12-07T08:15:56","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T08:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.146.49.248\/?p=647"},"modified":"2022-06-27T17:03:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T22:03:44","slug":"holiday-entertaining-and-decorating-checklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/holiday-entertaining-and-decorating-checklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Entertaining and Decorating Checklist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanksgiving is the beginning of the festive holiday season which includes lights, trees, shopping bags, wrapping paper, dinner parties, cocktail parties and a two-month stretch of nearly non-stop celebration. Along with the abundance of food, drink and gifts comes an abundance of stuff that needs to be pulled out of storage for the season. Here are a few checklists to help you get organized for the holidays.<\/p>\n<h3>Holiday Decorations<\/h3>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">\n<ul>\n<li>Christmas Trees<\/li>\n<li>Indoor and Outdoor Lights<\/li>\n<li>Christmas Tree Skirt<\/li>\n<li>Ornaments<\/li>\n<li>Tree Topper<\/li>\n<li>Stockings<\/li>\n<li>Wreaths<\/li>\n<li>Menorahs and Candles<\/li>\n<li>Miscellaneous Home Decor<\/li>\n<li>Lawn Decorations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Holiday Dining and Entertaining<\/h3>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">\n<ul>\n<li>Holiday-themed Plates and Serveware<\/li>\n<li>Wine and Cocktail Glasses<\/li>\n<li>Serving Platters and Bowls<\/li>\n<li>Tablecloths<\/li>\n<li>Napkins<\/li>\n<li>Table Decor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Holiday Gift-Giving<\/h3>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">\n<ul>\n<li>Wrapping Paper<\/li>\n<li>Gift Boxes<\/li>\n<li>Gift Wrap<\/li>\n<li>Gift Bags<\/li>\n<li>Gift Tags<\/li>\n<li>Tissue Paper<\/li>\n<li>Ribbons and Bows<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Holiday Storage Tips<\/h3>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">\n<ol>\n<li>Keep your lights nice and tidy. Don&#8217;t just throw them into a box only to find yourself in a tangled mess of lights that may or may not work next year. Bundle each set of lights and be sure to throw out any that don&#8217;t work.<\/li>\n<li>Use bins and padding to organize and protect fragile decorative items like ornaments. Store the bins on shelves vs. stacking to keep things from getting crushed.<\/li>\n<li>Keep your holiday items together within your storage unit to make it easier to pull everything from and put everything back into storage.<\/li>\n<li>Are your kids getting smarter about where Santa hides his presents until Christmas? Hide their gifts in your self storage unit and they&#8217;ll be sure to be nice vs. naughty until Santa visits.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><em>Hope you find these checklists and tips are helpful in getting ready for the holiday season. Don&#8217;t forget to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/The-Lock-Up-Self-Storage\/356337734895?v=app_4949752878\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Like&#8221; your favorite Lock Up location on Facebook <\/a>for a chance to <strong>win a free iPod Touch<\/strong>. Go ahead and regift it, we don&#8217;t mind! Happy Holidays from The Lock Up!<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few checklists to help you get organized for the holidays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[41,46,58,62,120],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-how-to","tag-decorating","tag-entertaining","tag-gifts","tag-holidays","tag-storage"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7542,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/7542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}