I've been organizing our basement for the past few weeks. What a job! I attend a fair number of swap meets, estate/ garage sales and have a slight tendency to hoard. My bride is into all types of crafting and also believes in stockpiling. We've lived here 30 years and had boxes from appliances and electronics we purchased decades ago. Treasures and gun boxes were of course saved, but a lot of things had to go. I've made multiple trips to the Salvation Army and have been giving our trash men a good workout!
Mrs. Chad makes wreaths for the various seasons and hangs them inside and out. She accumulated quite the collection and they were stacked up like cordwood and taking up a lot of floor space. My first project was to devise an acceptable storage solution. I bought some closet rods and pipe brackets, built some wire wreath hangers and came up with this:
I shot a lot of skeet and trap in the past and had bags of fired 209 primers, with a good amount of rifle and pistol primers mixed in. I phoned the local scrap yard (20 minutes away) and they said they'd buy them! They also told me they buy old computers and I had several of those. The primers weighed 101 lbs and they gave me over $20. The computers brought another $7. It was no windfall, but it beats putting them in the garbage and having them end up all over the subdivision.
I also had half a dozen old golf clubs that I could spare, 3 pull carts and a lot of beat up balls. A friend of mine owns a course with a driving range, so I phoned him and asked if he could use it. I boxed up 700 balls and he gave me $0.20 a piece and took the carts and the clubs. I came home with an extra $435! The golf department in the basement is now well organized and I still have a few practice balls!
I've always stored my fishing equipment safely, but it needed a little consolidating.
I came across several Baldwin lock sets and deadbolts that I picked up cheap at a garage sale. I had forgotten all about them! They didn't come with keys, but a local locksmith set me up. I replace our tired Kwikset locks with the Baldwin's and what a difference!
We kept our deck furniture cushions in the basement for decades. They took up a lot of space and it was a pain to schlep them up and down the stairs. I measured them, searched the web and decided on a Keter Denali 200 deck box. It was delivered about a week ago and we put it together that day. The cushion are now stored on the deck.
I still need to go through our old kitchenware and help my wife organize her craft supplies, but I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel!
... then there's the garage!
Mrs. Chad makes wreaths for the various seasons and hangs them inside and out. She accumulated quite the collection and they were stacked up like cordwood and taking up a lot of floor space. My first project was to devise an acceptable storage solution. I bought some closet rods and pipe brackets, built some wire wreath hangers and came up with this:
I shot a lot of skeet and trap in the past and had bags of fired 209 primers, with a good amount of rifle and pistol primers mixed in. I phoned the local scrap yard (20 minutes away) and they said they'd buy them! They also told me they buy old computers and I had several of those. The primers weighed 101 lbs and they gave me over $20. The computers brought another $7. It was no windfall, but it beats putting them in the garbage and having them end up all over the subdivision.
I also had half a dozen old golf clubs that I could spare, 3 pull carts and a lot of beat up balls. A friend of mine owns a course with a driving range, so I phoned him and asked if he could use it. I boxed up 700 balls and he gave me $0.20 a piece and took the carts and the clubs. I came home with an extra $435! The golf department in the basement is now well organized and I still have a few practice balls!
I've always stored my fishing equipment safely, but it needed a little consolidating.
I came across several Baldwin lock sets and deadbolts that I picked up cheap at a garage sale. I had forgotten all about them! They didn't come with keys, but a local locksmith set me up. I replace our tired Kwikset locks with the Baldwin's and what a difference!
We kept our deck furniture cushions in the basement for decades. They took up a lot of space and it was a pain to schlep them up and down the stairs. I measured them, searched the web and decided on a Keter Denali 200 deck box. It was delivered about a week ago and we put it together that day. The cushion are now stored on the deck.
I still need to go through our old kitchenware and help my wife organize her craft supplies, but I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel!
... then there's the garage!
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