It has been one interesting year for my family and I. We decided to move from a nice inner city apartment to a home fairley close to our favorite city. It was a wild idea that ended up with us moving into a fixer upper home. Even though we ended up with three times the space of our apartment we found out that we had less space than ever. This sounds extremely counter intuitive but when you are renovating a home while living in it so much clutter occurs that it is wild. The real problem was trying to find some sense of order when it comes to living in the home and we found that most of the house was turned into a project. We had tools and wood and shelves all over. There was alwayse multiple rooms filled with some kind of paint drying or woof being stained. So we needed an answer to all this mess and we had to find a way to organize it all. What we ran into was simply using what we had available. There was no reason to go out and create a new project just to attempt to work on the clutter. This is where we found out that the best idea was to use vertical space instead of spreading things out. We also decided to create a number system to make that vertical system not be annoying. We ended up getting all the cardboard boxes that we had used to move and placed them together. We worked on sizing them all from large to small and then getting a stackable system in place. We numbered all of these from 1 to 5 because we could get five boxes tall in the home. Then we decided to label them by what object would go in them and how often we would need to use them. So for tools like hammers, and screwdrivers we put a 1 on them because we would use these the most. That also meant that they would get stacked on top of the pile of boxes on the number 1 spot. This allowed us to not get annoyed at having to unstack 4 other boxes to get to a item that we would use very often. Cardboard boxes may have not been the most ideal way to organize our home, but with all the constant dust and work and things getting bumped into we didn't want to buy a nice system and let it get ruined. Besides with all the paint and fumes we didn't want a wood racking system soaking up smells that would never go away. It was wonderful to organize all of our things and give ourselves almost two more rooms to be able to not look like a construction zone. The small mental savings by giving ourselves more space was the best thing we could have done. It looks like we gave ourselves a whole new apartment worth of room by simply using what we had available to us. So if you are going to be moving and are even trying to do work in an attic the numbering system and labeling was a huge help to us and once we decided what we used the most it helped us not get frustrated by the storage system.
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