Tips for Packing Nutcrackers Away

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Karina Fraley for Expert Village, and today I'm showing you how to pack your Christmas decorations away for safe keeping. Now we're on to my precious nutcrackers. Again, I try to preserve the boxes every year. I just go ahead and put them right back in the box that they came from. If there are any lose pieces, you want to go ahead and take care of them. If you're kind of done with the whole Christmas thing by the end of the season and you want to save it for year, at the very least, you want to make sure that you keep any pieces that sort of went missing or became separated from its original piece together so that you can then fix them next year. This one, as you can see, lost his hat. I'm going to go ahead and fix it next year when it's time to start unpacking everything. For now, I'm going to put it together so that I don't lose his little hat, and I'm just going to put it in the box. This one goes into this box. Sometimes when they're given to me, they don't come in the original boxes. In that case, I just have to go ahead and find a box that they fit in. They are kind of oddly shaped, so that's not always the easiest thing to do. If I have some that are not with their original box, I just go ahead. Some that are so small like this, I just go ahead and wrap those up in some tissue paper. That does the trick just fine. I'm going to go ahead and finish packing up my nutcrackers in their boxes, and then I'm going to give you some more ideas on how to pack your decorations."