Tips on Decluttering and Organising Your Garage
Introduction
Extra storage and the garage often appear to be a match made in heaven. However, the out-of-sight, out-of-mind maxim, often results in your garage more closely resembling a dump site than a garage. This results in the space no longer being used to park one car, as intended, while providing room for storage, but rather a wasteland of stuff you don’t want to clutter the home. Let’s take a look at ways you can return the space to what it was intended for.
Get Rid of Some Stuff
The economy is uncertain at the best of times, with inflation and other risk factors, now more so than ever. How about looking to sell a lot of the things in the garage you are no longer using? A yard sale or selling online can bring in some much-needed cash to help weather the current uncertainty we are facing.
If you are not willing to go through listing all your unwanted goods, why not consider donating to a local charity? This could be of great benefit to the charity and those it supports while helping you claim back a fair amount of space and wasted potential from your home.
Add Shelving
Shelves are pretty handy in the home, they make everything a lot neater. Why should the garage be any different? Once you have cleared out all the stuff you are not using, it might be time to install some shelving for storing all the things you do use. In this regard, there are several useful industrial storage options for the installation of shelves. These are rugged and built to last and are not only perfect for the warehouse but also your garage.
Use the Humble Bin
Whether it is a clear plastic bin or a toolbox, both can prove invaluable when looking to declutter and organize your garage space. In this regard, keep toolboxes for tools and use clear plastic bins for almost everything else. The clear plastic bins can be sealed without tape and a quick glance will reveal what's inside. When you do need to find something this can be a godsend, saving time, effort, and your sanity.
It is not only bins that can help you declutter. There are several great hardware accessories that can take you from messy to super organized in a matter of minutes. Items like small plastic drawers can help when organizing all those screws, nuts, and bolts you’ve fastidiously collected over the years.
Label Everything
Using clear plastic bins certainly does help with easy identification down the line, but containers will hold many things and when on shelves you can do a lot of guessing as to what’s inside. By simply adding a label to the container or box with a brief note on what’s inside will also save some frustration and hair-pulling. The minute it takes to write out a label for a box is certainly time well invested.
Conclusion
All these methods listed above have been tried and tested to organize your garage into a space you’d actually want to spend time in. As a last bit of advice, if you are part of a loving relationship, when getting rid of things, don’t…we repeat…don’t just give away your spouse's belongings. You might be spending far more time in the garage than you bargained on.
