Take charge of your garage
If the season’s first snowfall has always meant a frantic search for that long-forgotten snow shovel, it might be necessary to organize your garage before winter arrives.
But if you find your garage filled with clutter and items you’ve been saving for years, you’re not alone. The U.S. Department of Energy reports that 25 percent of people with two-car garages don’t have room to park any cars inside, and 32 percent only have room for one vehicle
Garage reorganization is not something to dread
By ADRIAN SAINZ The Associated Press
Few household activities inspire more dread than reorganizing the garage.
Americans’ garages are filled with the requirements and detritus of daily life — paint cans, golf bags, bicycles, dusty trophies, power tools, old clothes, boxes of moldy magazines. Sometimes it gets so stuffed the family car doesn’t fit anymore.
But winter is on the way, and you don’t want to have to spend every morning scraping your windshield, do you?
You can take several approaches to garage organization, whether you tackle it yourself or need some help disposing of and organizing your belongings.
Homeowners can attack the job at a variety of price levels, from less than $100 for small do-it-yourself jobs to the tens of thousands of dollars for a custom-made system from a garage reorganization company.