When you find opportunities in life you take them.  They do not happen often and siezing the day is important.  ONe of those times came up recently and it was moving to a new home.   My wife and I spent our entire married life we lived in apartments and we have not had to be responsible for taking care of the place we lived.  But we found a home that needed lots of work in the best neighborhood in the State.  The price was in our range due to the home and we decided to purchase it and fix it up.  This was a massive task for us and it ended up being a big mess.  Getting into a new home in the dead of winter is tough.  Getting motorcycles moved is hard too.

Being able to fix things when it is cold out makes some things impossible.  We would have to fix a room and all the things in that room needed to be moved to another room.  Then we were able to work on it but when multiple rooms were involved the home became so cluttered that we struggled to work.  Our garage filled completely up and that was at the time our only place to work.  At the end of the winter, we finally fixed the majority of the house but the garage was so full that it was not useable for anything.  It was stuffed with tools and leftover products that we had used to work on the home.  It was really sad to have an entire section of our home be worthless. This was not a sustainable solution and we had to make a change.

Storing products was the issue and we had no space or funds to do it. This is because it was simply too expensive and we were out of money that we could spend.  If anything went wrong with the home we were honestly in trouble.  So we decided that there had to be an option.  There were too many tools to get destroyed if we left it all out and we didn’t want to waste anything. This is where we decided to go outside the box.  But in reality, we were not going to far outside the box because most attics are stored this way.  We decided to organize with all the cardboard boxes that we kept ordering from Amazon.

We started and decided to use the space above us as well.  It was based on the idea of vertical space usage.  We wanted the most used items to be stacked up on top.  So we labeled each box and numbered them from one to 5 based on how high we could stack the boxes in the garage.  So we put the most used tools and products on the top with box number five and we went piece by piece until we could make our first stack in the garage.  It was really important, to be honest with how much use we would get out of it.  It took a lot of arguing back and forth but several hours later we had half of the garage clean.  The system worked well and we ended up being able to use our garage for our cars and enjoy life.