How to Organize Your Garage

Spring and early summer is often the time that spring cleaning is not only appropriate for our homes, but for our garage as well. If your garage is looking like an indoor junk yard in which there is no longer room to park your vehicle, you may want to make use of the following tips.

If you don't have any wall hangers and hooks, you need to obtain some at the hardware store. Alternatively, you can sometimes find them more inexpensively at yard sales or thrift stores. This hardware is invaluable for hanging your brooms and gardening tools. There are racks available for things like bikes or skis as well. Get cabinets and/or shelves, too, if you don't have any built into your garage. Some are freestanding, but it is always safer to attach them to the wall.

Get some plastic bins and sort items into them, marking each bin carefully. Then you can stack the bins on the shelves, with the things you reach for first clearly visible. Remember if you have freestanding cabinets especially, the heavy things go on the bottom. Load those first. It may seem self-evident, but many head injuries have occurred when people forget this primary consideration and shelves tip over onto them. .

You should make sure you have good lighting in the garage so everything is clearly visible, and to avoid any accidents.

Now, you will want to put door mats at any entrances to the garage and into the house. And vow never to dump an item in that garage randomly again!