Getting Organized: Gift Wrap

This year around Christmas, I realized how poorly organized my gift wrapping supplies were and how I had way too many gift bags, some of which were not in great, reusable shape. And since I've been on an organizational binge due to our upcoming move and my discovery of this website: i heart organizing, I decided it was time to do something. I was inspired by this picture on pinterest and even found the organizer pictured on Amazon. I considered that organizer but wanted something that would take full advantage of the entire back of the door on our storage area under the stairs. I have always heard wonderful things about the Elfa collection at the Container Store and they just happened to be on sale, yippee!

Here is how my wrapping stuff looked before. Shoved under the bed in Emily's room or in her closet, not ideal locations now that she is getting bigger and needing more of her bedroom space for herself and her stuff. Plus that dumb wrapping paper roll holder is too short for many of my rolls and so the lid would just sit akwardly on top. The under-the-bed storage container was all wonky from our last move and the lid wouldn't fit right, plus it was overflowing with way too many bags.
I decided I needed to purge, purge, and purge some more until I could fit all of my supplies on this over-the-door elfa rack. This rack worked perfectly for us since we are a military family and we move alot, we need something that does not get drilled into walls/doors and can go with us when we move. This organizer would also be great for a pantry or bathroom or laundry room or garage, so we will always be able to use it for something. Or at least that is how I justified the cost because Elfa is not cheap, even on sale.
Here is what I needed to purchase to create this storage:
77-3/4in Mounted Standard
Set of Two Residential Overdoor Hooks
3 Deep Baskets
1 Shallow Basket
1 Media Rack

Here is a link to all of the overdoor Elfa components

A deep basket holds about 15 paper rolls (with room for more) and the media rack holds them in place
A shallow basket on top fits all of my curling ribbons

Another deep basket holds my gift tags and stickers, a handful of gift boxes, wrapping tissue, and some more ribbon

And yet another deep basket holds all the gift bags I kept. I purged and tossed anything ripped, torn, old looking or just plain ugly. I made sure to keep a handful in each category: holiday, baby, wedding, birthdays, etc. I probably still have 40 or so bags and they all fit in this rack.

So, now all my gift wrap is in one convenient space on a door that was doing nothing to help me organize before. It kinda just stood there doing nothing. But Elfa and I put this door to work and we didn't even need to drill one hole! The whole set up of the rack took literally 3 minutes and sorting and organizing took about an hour total.