Budget Minded Organizing Tips for Your Garage

Wouldn’t it be nice to have one of those perfect looking garages. You know the ones that actually can fit a car and many other items. Plus, the items are organized in a way that the owner can actually find them without spending a half hour or more digging in boxes, drawers or rummaging through shelves.

You can actually own a garage like that and you can organized it all yourself (without having to hire one of those great organizing experts that are featured on all those how to do things television shows). Here are a few tips to get you started.

1. Remember the phrase, use your space. This means that no space should be forgotten when it comes to storage ideas. A great example of this is those lone shelves many of us have hanging in our garages. No, you don’t necessarily have to remove them or put in bigger ones. What you can do is place little hangers underneath them. Then you can buy some pretty buckets. The kind you get from those dollar stores, sometimes in the kid play toy sections can work perfectly. Tie some string from the handle of the buckets and theneach bucket for what purpose it will have. An example of this is a gardening bucket. Write the word Gardening on the label and then fill the bucket with your extra packets of seeds, extra gardening gloves and even those small little shovels we are always loosing. Just remember not to put items into the bucket that way a lot.

2. Want to hang up heavier objects? You could buy a bakers rack, the kind that can be screwed into the wall. Then instead of hanging pots from it, place long, thicker hooks from the underneath. You can use those hooks to hang sporting equipment or even coiled extension cords (which can be twisted together using heavy duty twist ties).

3. Tired of looking at those rakes and extra mops just sitting in a corner? Why not try this cute idea. Get an old shower rod attach it to a wall. Then attach some simple S hooks from it. Now you have the perfect place to hang those items.

4. Are you always loosing those instruction manuals that come with all your outdoor equipment such as your lawnmowers and clippers, not to mention those warranty papers? If you have the space mount a magazine rack to a wall and place all those together. Then when the warranty expires or the machine does, it will be easier to throw away or use them.

5. Think about storing items not needed in plastic storage container. Fix an area of the garage just for these. Stack them neatly on top of each other, labeling the contents of each one on the outside. Then it will be handy when you need to find your extra Christmas lights or whatever.

Yes, it will take a bit of time to get your garage in order at first. But once you do get it organized, (if you follow this one piece of advice, put everything back in its place when you are no longer using it) then you may actually own the garage everyone wishes they had.