For most people, cleaning out your garage is a dreaded task that is often put off again and again. Ideally, garage organization means that the contents are not cluttered, are easy to find when you need it, and leaves space for your vehicle. It’s easy to forget that your garage is, after all, a space for your car and not for your junk.
In order to effectively organize your garage to allow for enough space for everything in it, here are some tips and tricks that you can try:
Remove everything from your garage before sorting.
Starting with a clean slate is always ideal, especially if you are thinking of sorting through a mountain of stuff. Take everything out of your garage and sort them there before you take them back in to place in shelves, storage units, and boxes.
As you take things out, you’ll divide them into three piles – discard, keep in the garage, and move to another location.
Toss. If you don’t need it, or if you haven’t used something in years, get rid of it. Fill up your trashcan and even your vehicle to make sure this goes away quickly. If you feel that it has some value, donate it, or sell it. If you think that members of your family might want to pick stuff that they want out of the junk in your garage, ask them to go through it before it heads for the dumpster. Pro tip: Give them a deadline.
Move. For things that you will keep – like those Christmas decorations that go in your attic, that industrial supply of toilet paper, or the bags of mulch that belong in your garden shed out back – go ahead and move them to get them out of the way.
Keep. This should leave you with only things that will be homed in your garage. Try to find ways to use all available space in your garage.
There are many ways to maximize the space in your garage. Consider purchasing a loft area, or a workbench and pegboard. Shelving is invaluable. You can also mount some of your plastic storage boxes on runners attached to your ceiling. Wire racks, baskets that you can mount on hooks, and floating hooks for bicycles are also great space saving storage ideas.
Categorize everything according to use
Most people end up using their garage for just about everything and anything. It is often used as a garden tool shed, as an outdoor gaming storage facility, as a workshop, and as a home improvement storage facility. Some people even use their garage as an extension of their kitchen, with an extra chest freezer sometimes finding its way here when there is not more space for it in the kitchen.
To make sure that you get what you need without having to dig through every single thing that you store in your garage, you should organize your storage units according to what these are for. Gardening tools and equipment should be placed in one area while car repair tools should be placed in its own area. Categorizing will help avoid future clutter and frustrations when you have to find something you need in a hurry.
If you find that after you have organized your garage effectively that you still need extra storage space, why not consider ordering another storage building for this. You can actually free up your garage space of clutter and create a separate storage unit for some of the stuff that you have.
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