Most people end putting everything they do not want in the house out in the garage. This means that eventually, the garage becomes a great big mess of odds and ends. A garage should be neat and organized for many reasons.

A garage ends up catching all the the kinds of things you do not want to bring into the house. The lawn rakes, shovels, pesticide sprays, your dad’s old poulan chainsaw, things to use on the car, and much more ends up being stacked in the garage. Being organized in this storage space means being able to find what you need when you need it and it also means that you are going to have to clean out the garage.

While some of things that you take out of your garage may be decent enough to donate to charity, there are going to be some things that belong in the dump. Make sure that you have the appropriate places designated before you start cleaning things out of the garage. You do not want a pile of things in the yard waiting to be loaded up.

There is no telling what you might find when you start cleaning the garage. You may find some of the things that you have been looking for that you thought you had lost. You might find that old hand mixer that you were going to repair before you decided to get a new one. You may find those parts that you took off your car you meant to take to the landfill.

Think of the ways that you could make the garage easier to keep clean and easier to keep organized. Shelves are a great way to be able to store things on like paint cans and the the things you do not want to leave on the floor. You should definitely bet a tool box for your tools if you do not have one.

You might have larger tools to think about storing in your garage as well. If you have leaf blowers and husqvarna chainsaws that you use for the yard, then you need to fix a place especially for these kinds of tools. If you have small children, you really need to get these things up and out of the way. Make sure you store chainsaws in an an upright position so oil and gas will not leak out.

Making the best of the space that you have for storage in your garage means that you will always have a neat place to work in. Stay on top of the things you know you will not use anymore. Do not just throw things into the garage because you do not want them inside anymore. Take these things to the landfill or a local charity.