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I agree with this 100% but I struggle with finding homes for everything. I feel like I need more furniture with drawers or cupboards. It's creating the storage
by nonethewiser 4y ago
I agree with this 100% but I struggle with finding homes for everything. I feel like I need more furniture with drawers or cupboards. It's creating the storage space that I struggle with.
- kylehotchkiss 4y agoyeah, buying organizational furniture is helpful. Those metal shelves from ikea are great, stack plastic containers on them and it’s not even too expensive to fill a closet like this
- xen2xen1 4y agoMy too, but the only thing that helped was making storage spaces for a type of thing, and when the space designated overflows, something has to be tossed.
- Torwald 4y agoI want to recommend the boxes system called "Pretty useful box" to you. For years now that stuff solved the problem again and again. https://reallyusefulproducts.co.uk/usa/ https://reallyusefulproducts.co.uk/usa/
- cstrahan 4y agoI have a TON of small components and tools, and maybe my system could be helpful: I keep several shelves full of stacking storage boxes in my garage. I’ve given each of these a unique number, written in permanent marker on the front face and lid of each. I chuck things mostly randomly in whatever box has some space, and then I track those newly added/removed items in a spreadsheet (more specifically, I just use a text file and treat the line numbers as the respective bin number — primitive, but works better for my workflow than something like Google Sheets). I’ve found that trying to keep an immense inventory “organized” is too daunting (what happens if I overflow one bin — do I dedicate an entire bin to the one or two items that wouldn’t fit, leaving this bin mostly empty? Ugh!), and the only real utility with keeping things categorically collocated is to retrieve/store items efficiently anyway — by introducing a layer of indirection, I get the end result I’m looking for with a fraction of the work.