Hiring a Professional Organizer to help "sort" your Garage Clutter Crap

[Rusty Heap]

New Years Resolution.


CLEAN OUT SHOP CLUTTER AND CRAP.


Im thinking, "we all at times hire someone to detail our cars, house cleaner, maybe lawn maintenance............."

So why not hire a Shop / Garage helper organizer?


anyone got stories?




Here's my Gal. She's called "Life Unstuffed"

I love her quotes.


"Maybe the life you want
is buried underneath all the stuff you own…….."


she may be my angel.


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I've got a huge shop, and slowly, after pickup truck and pickup truck loads to the dump, I've partially excavated an amazing thing in my shop bays! ITS CALLED A FLOOR!



It's like hiring a personal trainer at the gym.

You pay somebody $50 an hour to yell at you.
, so maybe my garbage clutter dirty soul be cleansed.




any stories? It's dumpster time.

[legion]

I cleaned up when my dad died. I rigorously cull my own collection.

[1975porsche]

Yes needs to be done !

[Hugh R]

Easy, moved 18 months ago from a huge house and garage to a townhouse with 1-1/2 garage, if I hadn't opened/used it in 20 years, out it went.

[Jims5543]

6 month rule.

I put stuff in boxes with date and contents. If I do not open in 6 months, or whatever is left in box after 6 months goes in dumpster at office.

I am about to embark on another hard core boxing.

I am wondering if my 78 mini pickup will fit in one.

I have a 2 car garage that has 2 cars in it. I am the only one on my block that can do that. Most cannot fit one car.

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[Baz]

You guys who are downsizing are headed in the wrong direction.....I'm going this way:

Now it’s my turn for a workshop build thread

[onewhippedpuppy]

I’m with Jim, six month rule. Tools are the only exception. Spare parts get sold unless I actually still have the car. My wife and I despise clutter and are aggressively anti-hoarder.

[Bill Douglas]

I've got a big pile of stuff in the attic. Well, half a 911SC actually. And I don't want that stuff thrown out. I should label if so if I cark it, it doesn't end up in the rubbish skip. Oh I'd be spinning if that happened.

[A930Rocket]

When we moved into our new house two and half years ago, I got rid of a mountain of stuff.

Ms Rocket does her side business with furniture in the garage, so it’s kinda full now.

[wdfifteen]

I understand the need to have an adult in the room. I would never get rid of anything without a lot of willpower. I am finally organizing. It's been a struggle to consolidate three shops into one. There are lots and lots of duplicates of basic hand tools. I have at least 20 hammers of various types and sizes. I'm only getting rid of multiple duplicates and stuff I'm pretty sure I'll never need again - like SBC Chevy valve spring compressors and dwell adjustment tools and ... I don't know about my Ford flathead valve keeper tool - I mean, I haven't adjusted the valves in a flathead Ford in 40 years but the little gizmos don't take up that much room and you never know. The adult in the room says pitch em, but I'm resisting. I'm keeping my timing light, just because.

[LakeCleElum]

It's an ongoing process of one step forward, 2 steps backwards for me..........

[stealthn]

I’ve just got too much stuff and a small garage, it’s all good tools, table saws, etc.

I’m on the lotto plan

[craigster59]

I've got my stuff organized, but I do have to say between the holidays and life lately it's a bit cluttered but not bad.

I've driven down the street in my neighborhood and others and have seen open garage doors. If I were them, I'd keep that shyte shut, I've seen some "packed to the gills" garages that make me cringe. How could you have that much crap?

[Baz]

Originally Posted by craigster59

I've got my stuff organized, but I do have to say between the holidays and life lately it's a bit cluttered but not bad.

I've driven down the street in my neighborhood and others and have seen open garage doors. If I were them, I'd keep that shyte shut, I've seen some "packed to the gills" garages that make me cringe. How could you have that much crap?

So true....

Was in my Mom's neighborhood today and as I was leaving there was a guy with some of his "stuff" sitting outside his garage - looked like a NY's resolution to get organized. I was tempted to yell something out the window as I drove by but decided to leave in him peace....

[look 171]

A good friend of my sister is headed that way in a couple years. She's quitting her IT job and go into the organizing people's homes as a retirement side gig. She's after horders and people who can't seem to want to sink their teeth into cleaning things out. Sound interesting. She's already done a few of them in the past year.

[herr_oberst]

Garage crap - that's a whole sidebar that ALSO needs to be addressed - but over the long weekend I was going to purge some stuff.
Unfortunately, and this often happens - I suddenly had an Eureka moment and thought of a way to use some of the stuff I was going to slough off to a better world.

See those 5 clocks? I've had them for years. Didn't know what to use them for.

Eureka!
And I also used up 5 theatre-style spotlights in this same display that were getting trampled underfoot.
Plus a bunch of Porsche prints that were just sitting in a box.

Now I'm back to square one. Can't get rid of anything because I might want/need/?

[look 171]

What, are you 12? Still play with toy cars? Damn that's a nice collection you have there. I am sure if I can get myself to part with them.

[ckelly78z]

I get kind of lazy with putting away tools during a project, but once it's finished, I take a day to organize/clean, and put away everything.....it keeps me sane.

[jcommin]

I remember cleaning out my parent's home when they passed on. My mom was a minimalist, my dad saved everything. I developed a 5 year rule - untouched? out is goes after 5.

That changed when I got divorced. The house was over 3000 sq ft with an oversize 2 1/2 car garage. I went to a small 2 BR apartment, no garage with the majority of the stuff going to storage locker. I eventually rented a garage and the cost for the garage and storage locker was over $500/month. I did this for 4 years. You can do the math what this cost.

I moved and got rid of stuff - I just don't need stuff anymore. I'm in a town home and I'm looking to downsize again. I'm really lean in my personal stuff. What I am now is a storage locker for my children. I have more of their stuff than me.

[Crowbob]

I hired a lady to do that garage organizing thing.

Didn’t work out so I ended up buying her a house to live in. Most of the stuff went with her.

Done!