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Storing curtains

gt568
gt568 Posts: 2,535 Forumite
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Not sure if this is the best forum for this, but hey ho....

I'm moving into a rented property for circa 6 months and need somewhere/something to store my curtains as the rented gaff has them up already. I need my curtains for when the building work is finished in the new house...

Any ideas?
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  • NewShadow
    NewShadow Posts: 6,858 Forumite
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    Mine are in a bin bag under the bed...
    That sounds like a classic case of premature extrapolation.

    House Bought July 2020 - 19 years 0 months remaining on term
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  • Bigjenny
    Bigjenny Posts: 601 Forumite
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    How about Vacuum Storage Bags.
    "When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us" Alexander Graham Bell
  • gt568
    gt568 Posts: 2,535 Forumite
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    Could do....have to iron them tho and I'm lazy...
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  • Callie22
    Callie22 Posts: 3,444 Forumite
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    I've just stored mine in underbed boxes. They do look a bit wrinkled when you rehang them but the creases drop out soon enough.
  • SpikyHedgehog
    SpikyHedgehog Posts: 1,018 Forumite
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    Over coat hangers in the wardrobe? Or folded neatly in an under bed box? Coat hangers would be least creasing, though if they're super long or heavy, you might need 2 hangers per curtain.

    Suppose it depends where & what sort of storage you've got in the rented house.
  • Seakay
    Seakay Posts: 4,270 Forumite
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    I think that with vacuum bags everything is supposed to come out uncreased which is why they are advertised for out of season clothes etc.
  • jackyann
    jackyann Posts: 3,433 Forumite
    Don't forget to add something like cedar wood or the sachets you can buy at big suoermarkets, or dry cleaners. You don't want to find that the moth have got them.
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