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Garage Storage Organizing Ideas

If you have space, the garage is a very good storage place. Yet not all storage is created equal.

Some things need to be accessible at all times; other things we see only every 10 years when we move, but we want to keep them anyway.

Think of your storage in three distinct categories.

1. Short-term storage.

This is for things you'll need in the next three months or things that you need intermittently, such as items you buy in bulk.

Short-term storage also includes items that you don't use often but need to keep handy, such as boots, flashlights, and umbrellas.

2. Mid-term storage.

These are things you use seasonally, such as holiday decorations, grills, hammocks, and snowboards and skis.

Put them in lofts or stack them in boxes, but don't push them all the way to the back.

3. Long-term storage.

These are things you don't really need but can't part with, either, such as old tax records, your daughter's first dress, your children's artwork, mementos, and family treasures that you can't stand but will pass down anyway.

Put these at the dark, back, inaccessible corners here.

Next: Setting up your storage zones.

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Tara Aronson is a native Californian. Having grown up in San Diego, she studied journalism and Spanish to pursue a career in newspaper writing. Tara, whose three children - Chris, Lyndsay, and Payne - are the light of her life, now lives and writes in Los Angeles. She also regularly appears on television news programs throughout the U.S.