Every time you step into your garage you’re inundated with all the stuff that is lying around whether it be auto supplies, your power tools or all the spare parts for every single appliance that came with every machine that is in your home. It is all an unnecessary influx of material coming in, unnecessary because even though it is useful it is not of any immediate need so it should be stored away somewhere, preferably in an organized and accessible place.
In addition to the existing spares, you will obviously be buying a bunch of your own to work on the home or on the car. If you got your refrigerator or your washing machine and dryer serviced, you’ll need a place to stock the spares that the serviceman from the company gave you. Like all organizational problem, the issue of the large number of spares starts with an organizational problem on the onset The first set of spares come in and theyr’re just stored somewhere in the garage. Ditto for the second, third and the tenth. By the time you’re on your fifteenth spare, you’ve got a full blown epidemic of unchecked spares on your hands and coming from someone who’s been there, let me tell you it is one bad place to be in.
The quickest way to sort this problem and make sure that you don’t have to go through to something like this? Buy a set of plastic parts bins. How big and how many? It all boils down to what kind of organizational quagmire you are looking to manage. For small spares and supplies like nails, glue screw drivers and pliers a standard sized chest of plastic bins will do. They usually have about 4 drawers or plastic bins in them and each can be taken out without disturbing the one above or below it much like a chest of drawers.
For sorting more permanent (and larger) components like saw blades, rivets and items of that nature which you wouldn’t use as regularly, you need to get a set of consecutive sized plastic bins — much like matryoshka dolls, where the smaller one fits into the larder one and so on. If you follow these tips, you will end up with two to three towers of bins which will let you manage all your spares with ease. And the best part? This system expands to take in more spares as your needs increase — just add more bins or a tower.
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