Christmas Ornament Organization

Whenever I am someplace new, I love to pick up a little trinket to remember the place.  This probably explains the collection of shot glasses from college (which are now collecting dust in a box at my parent's house) or the miscellaneous T-shirts in my closet.  Over the past few years, Bret and I have started collecting Christmas ornaments whenever we go away - whether it is in Key West or Ogunquit.  These are the ornaments we picked up just last month alone!

Although our general ornaments (the sets of matching bulbs) have their own boxes, we've been storing our travel ornaments and our sentimental ornaments haphazardly in a holiday box in our linen closet.  In general, this closet is quite the mess and it really needs some serious organization.  Over the next few months, we are going to slowly organize the closet and I decided to first tackle the holiday ornaments.  As a sidenote, I've taken a "before" picture but I'll post it when we're done organizing the linen closet shelf by shelf - and this could take awhile!

After doing some research online, we discovered these great functional boxes at the Container Store that fit perfectly in our closet.

Since Bret and I had a Zipcar reserved on Saturday, we decided to pick up two of the ornament storage boxes while we were out.  These boxes are great because they are sturdy but not heavy, which makes it great for that super high top shelf!  You can alter the size of each row and column to fit your ornaments.

And afterwards, the ornaments all looked perfect in their own compartment!

Our apartment always looks tidy and uncluttered, but our linen closet is definitely our secret messy spot.  Tell me, where is your secret messy spot in your home?