Garage Organizing Tips (3 Easy Steps)
It’s time to reclaim your garage! For many homes, a garage is a built-in storage unit where our junk piles up and up until we can’t park our cars or walk around in them anymore. This leaves your car parked outdoors exposed to UV exposure, bird droppings, tree sap, and more. Storing it in the garage helps prolong your car’s life and keep it clean – but then where would we put everything in the garage?
Even the biggest, messiest garages can be cleaned up and organized with a plan and the right tools in place.
Too much stuff? Contact Good Riddance Hauling for full-service hauling or to rent one of our trailers.
Step 1: Materials
- Trash bags, trash cans, and a dumpster
- Cleaning supplies to clean as you go
- Notepad and pen
Gather your materials and get ready to figure out what you have, what you actually need, and what you don’t.
Step 2: Toss It
Make some room to clean and reorganize your garage by getting rid of some easy items like:
- Trash such as broken boxes, wrappers, and other items might be tucked away
- Old, unused decorations that are faded, dirty, and past their prime
- Paint ruined by the extreme cold and heat of the garage
- Outgrown toys and sporting equipment that can be donated
- Old shoes, clothes, or school supplies
- Magazines and newspapers
- Expired chemicals such as cleaning products
- Rusty tools
- Old luggage
- Outdated appliances and furniture
Once you’ve figured out what you want to keep, sell, donate, recycle and toss, it’s time to organize.
Note: For what you want to sell, try Facebook Marketplace! You can follow us on Facebook too by clicking here.
Step 3: Organize
Most garages don’t have a built-in space, so it is important to find ways to maximize storage availability. When organizing your garage, keep functionality in mind and plan on installing hooks, hangers, overhead storage, and shelves to keep things organized.
Our top organizing tips include:
- Think vertical and store upwards to save precious floor space.
- Make the most used items easily accessible.
- Invest in containers.
- Keep things off the floor.
- Calling us for some help!
Broad categories should all go together, like:
- Gardening and lawn care
- Sports equipment
- Bikes and scooters
- Shoes and boots
- Hand tools
- Automotive supplies
- Camping gear
The easiest way to do this is by installing a shelving system and using clear, labeled, stackable storage containers.
When you’re ready, call (707) 935-0530 or text us at (707) 721-6742 to schedule a pickup appointment. We can help with that pesky garage cleanup to haul away everything you need to be tossed, donated, and recycled, including the large bulky items.
At Good Riddance Hauling, we also offer property cleanups for landlords and real estate agents, ranging from garages to homes to yard waste.
