Storage
rooms are generally the place to put all those things that don't fit in your
house and you don't used on a daily basis. The problem begins when you have too
many things in there and you can’t go into the storage room; or when you want
to get something but you can't find it due to the mess; or if you find it, you
are afraid of moving it, because it might be holding other things.
The first
piece of advice when trying to arrange your storage room is the following: if
you haven't used the object for some time now, throw it or give it away. If the
element is in good shape, you might give it away, but if it’s broken, just
throw it, don’t keep it thinking you might fix it; you will not use it, or if
you need it you will probably don’t remember where it is or you won’t know how
to fix it, and you will end up buying a new one.
Once you
have thrown all the unnecessary objects, it is time to start organizing your
storage room. One idea that might be useful is that you keep things in boxes.
Still, don’t put everything in boxes at random; since you are cleaning and
organizing, do it right and in a useful way. The best way to keep things in
order in the long run is to know what you have in each box, so you don’t have
to open each box every time you need something. In order to do this, you may
want to put all the objects according to the place they belong; for example,
things that go in the kitchen; things that go in the living room, the bedroom,
etc. etc. etc. The ideal thing is that you make a list of the things you might
find in each box, and put a number to each box and the place of the house they
belong. This way you can look for things easily. You check the list, see in
which box it should be, and that’s it.
These ideas
might seem a bit weird or that it might take too long to put things in order,
but if you think about it, if you organize the storage room this way, and if
you keep it like this, you will never have to organize it ever again. If you
keep it organized and in order, you won't be touching and opening the boxes you
don't need, so they will stay there, organized. Try it. Keeping your storage
room organized is simpler than it sounds.
