Find the decorations without the annual archaeology.
Seasonal things are stored by a version of you that has since forgotten everything. Leave that person a note in the form of a photographed, labelled bin.
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Twice a year the same hour disappears: the one spent opening every box in the loft looking for the one with the lights in it. The information needed to skip it existed eleven months ago and was never written down.
Seasonal storage is the easiest kind to inventory, because everything goes away at once, in one session, already sorted by what it is.
What it gives you
One bin, one season
Winter coats, summer garden, holiday decorations. A bin per season and per category is the whole system, and search finds the bin.
Photograph before the lid
Next December you will not remember which of four identical bins holds the outdoor lights. The photo of it open answers that in a second.
Swap without unpacking
When the seasons turn you know which bins come down and which go up, so the swap is a carry rather than a search.
Note what needs replacing
The moment to record that a string of lights died is while packing it away, not while standing on a ladder next year.
Labels for the loft
Scan a QR label from the hatch to see inside a bin without pulling it down, which for anything in a loft is most of the work.
Clothes you forgot you had
Out-of-season clothing is the category people most reliably rebuy. Listing it keeps a wardrobe you already own from turning invisible for six months.
How to start
Inventory on the way in
Do it when things go away, not when you are looking for them. Everything is out, sorted and in your hands already.
Photograph and number the bins
Bin 1 is decorations, bin 2 is lights and cables. Photograph each one open before the lid goes on.
Note anything broken or missing
A note now is the shopping list you will want in eleven months, at the moment you would otherwise be improvising.
Questions people ask
- Is it worth it for four boxes?
- For four boxes that all look identical in a dark loft, yes — that is precisely the case photographs solve. If you can tell them apart at a glance from the hatch, you probably do not need this.
- When is the best time to do it?
- Packing away, always. Everything is out and in your hands, and the ten minutes it adds to a job you are already doing replaces an hour of searching later.
- Do the bins need to be in one place?
- No. Loft, garage and under the stairs can each be their own location, and search runs across all of them, which is useful precisely because seasonal things tend to get split up.
- Can I use the free plan for this?
- Starter covers 1 location, 3 bins and 10 items, which is a modest decorations stash. Anything bigger — or spread across the loft and the garage — needs Plus for the extra locations and bins.
Read more about it
Guides that go into the detail this page skips.
Leave next year’s you a much better set of notes.
Start with a single location and the bins you can see from where you are standing.