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To maximize floor space in the garage, hang as many items as possible on the walls. Pegboard and utility hooks provide plenty of hanging options.

To help fight clutter on your desk, hang a basket as a temporary spot for memos, notes and other small papers.

To keep all your cleaning supplies together and tidy, try a portable shower caddy. It’s easy to clean and fits nicely on a shelf in your utility room!

Label each shelf in your linen closet to show its contents, such as sheets or pillowcases. This will make sure linens are put in their right places, and make them easier to find later.

Keep a rolling cart in your office to hold the desk and work items you use most often. At the end of the day, just push the cart under your desk to save space.

Organize crowded shelves by setting items like spices or medication on lazy susans. This will enable you to easily see everything!

Clear out a corner of the garage for garage sale items you’ll gather. Inside, work room to room with three big bags: Garage Sale, Donations…and Trash.

Store sharp tools with blade covers you make! Trace the blade onto cardboard. Turn tool over and trace on another area of cardboard. Cut shapes out, allowing space to form sides. Bed cardboard to fit the tool, then tape.

For fresh-smelling closets, add some cedar chips to an old nylon stocking and hang. The cedar will also repel moths.

Need a place to neatly store golf balls in the off season? Egg cartons are ideal!

Draw simple silhouettes of your tools on a pegboard. You’ll always know what you have, where things go, and what’s missing.

Organizing idea for seasonal clothing, sports equipment and kitchen supplies: keep things you frequently use where they are easy to reach; put the things you use less often up high on a shelf or in the back of the closet or cupboard.

A hanging clear shoetree is a convenient place to organize daily-use items. Give keys, gloves, cell phones, mail and reminder notes their own pocket!

Can’t remember where you put it? When you’ve stored items, write in two places where you put them, perhaps the back pages of the phone book and your datebook.

Paint the handles of small garden tools in bright colors so you can easily find them in the garage or on the ground as you work.

When packing strings of lights, wrap them around plastic ribbon spools to keep them from tangling.

Keep a plastic tub in your child’s closet for outgrown clothes. When it’s full, mark the clothing size on it, donate to charity and replace with another!

Keep clothes in your closet from slipping off their wire hangers by wrapping a rubber band around each end of the hanger.

Screw cup hooks onto the back of a pantry door to hold mesh bags of potatoes, onions, or fruit. Make sure the hooks and your door can handle the load and stress.

Try storing sheets in the rooms where they are used. They will always be the right size for the bed.

To make your “junk drawer” less junky, use an ice cube tray or other plastic dividers to hold small supplies.

Keep a separate calendar just to note special occasions such as birthdays and anniversaries. Check it the last week of every month…that will ensure your cards, gifts or flowers will arrive on time.

Hang an inexpensive shoe bag in the garden shed or the garage. It’s a great place to store small garden tools, work gloves, seed packets, and gardening clogs, of course.

Assign each family member a basket for mittens, gloves, hats and scarves. Keep them by the door most frequented…hung on the wall, or set on the floor or a shelf.

Instead of an address book, consider keeping names, addresses and phone numbers on index cards in a file or recipe box. You’ll also have room for email addresses, birthdays, even presents you’ve given or received.

Maximize storage space by mounting jar lids to the underside of a shelf, filling the jars with small items like pasta or spices, and then screwing the jar to its lid.

Stop cabinet messes and make retrieving items easier by storing spices and condiments in a cake loaf pan.

To protect leather apparel hanging in a closet, cut a hole in the top of a king sized pillowcase and drape over the hanger and item.

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