Holiday

[Oznell]

This is for those who, like me, rotate decor in and out of their living areas, at whim. 

(I keep two labeled bins of decor items in basement, and overflow in my mud room closet (a couple of shelves) and a few shelves in kitchen where I store stuff not in use.) 

OK, in my living room at Easter, I had a vintage milk glass "basket" filled with wooden eggs, and stood it on an equally old milk glass "pin tray". 

After Easter and dismantling that little display, put the milk glass tray "somewhere".  But recently , puttering around, I set up a mercury glass beaker with candle in it on a small, round brass table.  It needed something underneath to give it emphasis.  That round milk glass tray!    Today, and part of several other days , I hunted and scrabbled through those bins, shelves, etc, etc, to no avail.

My lovely system of labeled storage wasn't working-- it was nowhere to be found.  Finally I just relaxed and glanced at the top of my curio cabinet.  Instead of systematically putting it away after Easter, I had stuck it under a ginger jar at the top of the cabinet.

Maybe I'm too impulsive (and too sort of random, ha) to stick entirely to my system of rotate in, rotate out.  Mostly it works.

I would like to know if other people have lost certain pieces of decor in storage for a period of time, and then they turn up.  It's almost like getting something new and exciting!  

[queendiva]

Too often!

Drives me crazy looking high & low for an item. It shows up when I am looking for something else.

[Mz iMac]

I moved nearly 6 yrs ago to my current domicile.  Unpacking, anything I hadn't found a place for, I threw into the pantry.

Through those years, I would tear up the house looking for something I knew I had when I moved here.  I even blamed my cat a few times for "hiding" my stuff. 

Then a light blub goes off........check the pantry.

VIOLA!!!!!  I found it! 

Between January & February, I spent every weekend cleaning out the pantry & putting EVERYTHING in its rightful place (around the house).  My pantry is HUGE.  Never seen one that large before.  It is embedded in a whole side wall in the kitchen.

[lil spot]

@Oznell   Yes!

About 8 years ago, my daughter asked for a candle we always put out at Christmas. It's striped like a candy cane. She wanted to display it in her new home. I searched through everyone of my Christmas totes to no avail...that candle was nowhere to be found.

In January of this year, while packing up my Christmas decorations, that candle appeared. How I did not find it before will always mystify me.

I haven't told my daughter of my find. I'm going to pack it up, in a beautiful package, and put it in the mail the first week in November. I can't wait to hear her excitement!

[Spurt]

@Oznell 

Constantly doing that, because like you I rotate my decor......

Recently I found a garland I had previously looked all over for in my outside storage room.....

[Spurt]

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@Mz iMac wrote:

I moved nearly 6 yrs ago to my current domicile.  Unpacking, anything I hadn't found a place for, I threw into the pantry.

Through those years, I would tear up the house looking for something I knew I had when I moved here.  I even blamed my cat a few times for "hiding" my stuff. 

Then a light blub goes off........check the pantry.

VIOLA!!!!!  I found it! 

Between January & February, I spent every weekend cleaning out the pantry & putting EVERYTHING in its rightful place (around the house).  My pantry is HUGE.  Never seen one that large before.  It is embedded in a whole side wall in the kitchen.

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@Mz iMac 

Oh dear Miz iMac..... blaming your dear kitty.... 

[ItsME]

@lil spot ....  try not to forget or misplace it!  🤣

[lil spot]

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@ItsME wrote:

@lil spot ....  try not to forget or misplace it!  🤣

@ItsME   Funny!!! I just thought "Now where did I put that candle?" 

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[Catiele]

I am part of that club for sure. I decided that I would put a picture of my mother, my grandmother and I on an end table. Could not find my grandmother's picture. It was my mom's. When she passed it was mine. I never knew her but my mom named me after her. I eventually found it in my chest of drawers. Why there I will never know. I am named after her. My favorite story about her is one day after work my grandfather went home and she and the children were gone. Neighbors said she moved three streets down. Of course they rented. 

[Oznell]

@queendiva,   @Mz iMac ,  @lil spot ,  @Spurt ,  @ItsME ,   @Catiele --

These are fun comments and stories, thanks!