like tetris!

I did a post (how playing TETRIS helps packing) when I finally packed everything. Sadly, I did over spilled into the garage this year. I will need for sure sell some stuff later this year (ahhh I don't want too, but I reached beyond my capacity).
Here is what is in my basement.

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Tried to find a YouTube version to embed here but YouTube's deleted all the Simpsons and Family Guy short clips.

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/54394/detail/

 

Ask around you might be shocked at who will open up space for you... I did that and a buddy and his wife let me convert their entire garage and an outside storage shed into my prop storage area...

 

Aside from the collection that is growing ALL over the house I have one spare bedroom that is stacked floor to ceiling. All you can do is open the door,you can't get in and I haven't seen the back wall of it in 15 years. I don't even remember the size of the room...it's horrible LOL!!!

 

The in-laws have 98 acres 20 minutes away. We load up the flat bed trailer and take it all to their ranch

 

The photos posted above by osenator point out one solution: Plan before you buy. I used to have a bunch of assorted black lights, partly because I couldn't justify the cost of one of those expensive pro units. But totalling up al the money I spent on fixtures, bulbs and extension cords showed that over the course of a couple of years I spent more than the $169 pro light would have cost. I sold off most of my smaller lights and now use (and store) just the one.

 

its allll in my attic.... above my head....

 

My stuff is currently in the attic, shed, garage, on the front porch, outside on both sides of the house, in two different bedrooms downstairs, also in the family room downstairs, in the office upstairs and on the dining table....oh yeah, still have a couple boxes of orange lights and a blucky skull in my truck.

Without knowing what your place looks like, it's hard to figure out where to store stuff. Do you have a garage? carport? shed? deck? basement? spare bedroom? Some stuff you can just leave outside to weather. I have a few coffins doing that right now.

 

I solved my storage problem when I decided to keep my garage Halloween-themed year round.

... I love my garage now.

 

I used to haul it all up into the attic - ugh. No basement or garage in our 1920s bungalow, so my sweet partner used part of her small inheritance from her mom to buy me a shed/workshop. Best gift ever!

 

Nice shed...you'll have plenty more storage room if you toss the Christmas stuff

 

I know, I know! But I have more than one addiction.

 

i don't have a ton of space at home.most is in the game/storage room and under the house. i also seem to have a extensive christmas collection...and unfortunaty my boyfriend doesn't share my love of haunting and decorating as i do ... he is however very supportive and patient.( thanks you hon!!!). and i am a master stacker and packer ( thank you nintendo tetris, and mom said it was a waste of time, pffft!!!). i also worry about always transporting them around and damaging them. but you guys have great ideas

 

We built rafters in the garage to hold our stuff. Getting pretty full though with xmas stuff up there too.

 

I have a 2' x 2' pop-up entrance to the attic so everything I build has to fit through it. We have to wade deeper every year to the X-mas decorations.
I see a shed in my future.

 

Attic is stuffed full, shed behind house about half Halloween, half yard stuff, other storage. God bless the hubby, he's the one that hauls it all up and down.

 

I keep almost everything overhead on one side of the garage. I intentionally constructed the larger tombstones as hollow storage space for the smaller ones. Some of the tombstones are fairly tall, yet I am able to keep them all in a space about fifteen feet by three feet by three feet. My friends are amazed at the packing skill, but my real motivation is that I like to be able to use my garage, so it is a compromise.

 

Osenator...that's quite enough! I don't want to see your Lurching Vampire or other props anymore! Ha ha...

Well, I store my stuff mostly in the attic, but the large figures stay in the cool basement. I do keep the masks in an easy access closet so they won't melt in the attic, and the fog machines stay in my closet!

 

Up in the attic, but in the garage I bought a self crank lift from Amazon to get the heavy/large stuff up onto the shelving that I have yet to build when I am not working on Halloween stuff

 

Just added a little storage to the shed for all my torches/bamboo/PVC

Added one of these to our "craft room" for all the crafty and/or makeup stuff. (though it's mostly full since this pic was taken.

You can see the wall behind this thing. All those totes are filled with Halloween. About 6 of them are full of skulls, the rest have assorted things, all labeled. My extension chords off to the wall on the right. Bob hanging out in the background there as well.

Designing that monster to be outside 365...

 

I used my tax return to buy a 2nd storage building thats 10X14ft in addition to the 10X12ft building I already have. Both of them are full... In total, I have 2 and a 1/2 buildings full to props that I store it all in.

With the new building, things are a little more organized, but still difficult to access. So sfter last year, I finally had enough dealing with all the storage issues and box stacking. I have come to the realization that things I am not using must go... and I say that very carefully... and painfully... I have been selling those items to people who are looking for them and will be able to use them.

 

We have a shed built across the back of our 2 car-garage that's about 6 feet deep. One half of it has a shelf, so my toe-pincher filled with random smaller stuff is on the bottom with some blowmolds & the smaller tombstones are on the top shelf with a couple WIP Christmas props and the window unit air conditioners. The bigger stones are in the other half - leaning against the shelves. Unfortunately, the hubby insists on me leaving room for the ladder / patio table & chairs / etc.

My cemetery fence is in the shed out back with the lawn mower & the people props are all standing around in the corner of the garage (which has never seen a car) and I noticed that hubby blocked them in with a half-build groundbreaker coffin....Guess he didn't like the company! Oh and the tubs are stacked neatly along the garage wall.

 

 

My garage. It's a 2 car, and my car is a parking pad baby- because my garage is stuffed. I have wild fears of a fire- my stuff! In flames! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

 

Right now, almost everything is stored in the rafters of our two-car garage, in totes. The two large gravestones we have are in the garden shed out back. We have plans to make the garden shed bigger and add a second one to the opposite back corner of the yard, but it all comes down to $$$.
Why is it we can build/decorate a haunt for pennies, but storage is so bloody expensive?

 

I take up a fair amount of space in the basement, but now that i have a few larger items, I've started on the garage, as well. Luckily we don't park out there.