This Michigan Gypsy has just finished cleaning and organizing her work space. Why would anyone waste precious time sifting through all of their accumulated junk and tools? Because if you are anything like me, you have collected things throughout your travels and they have landed all willy-nilly. I used the recent addition of a new workspace in the garage as my excuse to get my junkin' self together. Don't have your own workspace? Keep your ears open and an eye out for things that can be re-purposed. The blue work space pictured was from the mail room at my husband's office. They pulled it out for a re-modeled and we scooped it up to transplant in our garage. The hanging cabinets were from a kitchen re-do. All free and a great source of storage. So scope your local re-store, if you have friends that are re-doing a room or know of a business that is doing a re-model, ask if there are any counter tops or cupboards that need to get ride of, you'll be glad you did! I had a pile of things here....a jar of stuff over there...a bin of things somewhere...you get the idea. So whenever I wanted to go out to my garage and work on a project, I spent half my time sorting through everything to find what I want. So my advice to you is to bite the bullet and spend an hour or two getting organized. The calm feeling you get will more than make up for the inconvenience of having to get everything in order.(kids are great for sorting screws and small do-dads for you, fun for them, less work for you) For small items, I have found that plastic containers that are meant to hold embroidery floss work great. The small compartments are the perfect size for sorting and everything is in one place for you to choose from, much better in my opinion that putting each thing into it's own small container. Stay tuned to see how long I can't keep everything neat and tidy.
So if you are looking at this......
Spend and afternoon getting to this....
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