How to Store Christmas Ornaments

Your Attic, Ceiling Racks, and Storage Units Are Destroying Your Christmas Decorations

Why Your Attic Destroys Christmas Ornaments

Your attic is the worst place in your home for anything sentimental.

🌡️ Extreme Heat = Guaranteed Damage

Attics routinely reach 130–180°F. That heat doesn’t hit once — it hits every summer, every year. Heat permanently alters holiday décor at a material level:

Glass ornaments develop micro-cracks from repeated expansion and contraction. Inner coatings dull, flake, and weaken.
Candles and wax décor soften, slump, and melt. Most candle wax fails between 115–142°F.
Plastic ornaments warp, sag, and dry out, becoming brittle and easy to break.
Glue, glitter, and caps fail as heat breaks adhesive bonds. Pieces loosen and never reseat correctly.
Heirlooms fail first — handmade, vintage, and irreplaceable items don’t survive repeated heat cycles.
Heat plus humidity creates mold, mildew, and rot in fabric, paper, ribbon, felt, and lace.

You won’t see the damage until next Christmas.
By then, it’s permanent.

Why Storage Units Are Even Worse

If your ornaments are not getting destroyed in the attic, you’re paying a storage unit to do it for you.

The Holiday Commute Nightmare: Drive. Load bins. Drive. Unload bins. Back and forth. Then do it all over again after Christmas. Time, gas, patience, and money — burned twice a year, every year.
The Endless Monthly Bill: $100–$200/month to store décor used a few weeks a year adds up fast. That’s $1,000+ annually to rent space for bins.
The Environment is Still Hostile: Unless you pay extra for climate control, storage units expose your decorations to temperature swings, moisture, condensation, and mold.
Rodents and Bugs LOVE Storage Units: Chewed boxes. Rodents, and insects droppings. Moldy crafts. Broken down packing material. You open a bin and it smells like regret.
Storage Units Don’t Solve Storage Problems. They hide them — at a premium.

Why Ceiling Racks Don’t Work Either

Ceiling racks shift danger, not storage.

The Risk: Must climb a ladder holding 20–40 lb totes with no hands free.
The Struggle: You must reach overhead into narrow slots and move three bins just to get the fourth.
The Structure: They overload weak joists and require drilling lag screws into your home’s structure.

The Storage industry wants you to believe—
drilling into your home is OK

So Where Do You Safely Store Christmas Ornaments?

Customer giving a thumbs-up while standing under a fully loaded ARackAbove overhead storage rack in a 2 car garage

"We were able to cancel our storage unit contract which is continuing to save us big bucks." - Randy

Right Over Your Head— With ARackAbove.

No attic heat.
No ladders.
No ceiling damage.
No storage-unit bills.

ARackAbove	Benefit for Ornament Storage
Freestanding	Zero structural load on your home (no drilling into joists).
Cooler Placement	Garages stay dramatically cooler than attics— avoid temperature spikes.
No ladder, no risk.	Accessible From the Ground—Safe, easy access
Adjustable Structure	Zero impact on usable garage floor space.
2,000-lb Capacity	Engineered to hold the heaviest of Christmas decor

Your bins stay intact. Your ornaments safe.
Memories survive for the next generation.

Why ARackAbove Exists

“I designed ARackAbove because every ceiling rack manufacturer asks you to risk your home’s structure — and your neck on a ladder. They sell ceiling racks; I sell you structural confidence.”

— Steve Schindehette, Founder

The Smart Way to Store Christmas Decorations — Without the Heat, Risk, or Cost.

You don’t need another attic. You don’t need another storage unit bill. You don’t need another cracked ornament that meant something to your family.

You need a safe, accessible, protected space where your décor never gets cooked, crushed, or chewed—That place is ARackAbove.

No more trips. No more monthly bills. No more risky climbs—every Christmas.