My garage went from a junk pile to a workspace in one weekend, and I did not buy a single shelf
My wife and I were supposed to drive to her sister's place in Boise two Saturdays ago, but the trip got called off when one of the kids got a fever. So I stayed home with a free day and finally faced the garage. It took about 7 hours, and the weird part is nothing got thrown out, I just moved the bikes and bins off the floor and got them onto brackets and hooks I already had sitting in a bucket. The floor space went from barely enough to walk through to room for both cars. What is the one thing in your house that would take a single free day to fix if plans fell through?
The "brackets and hooks I already had sitting in a bucket" part is the real story here. Most people buy stuff to get organized before they even know what they own, then the new stuff becomes clutter too. You basically did a free audit first, which is why it actually stuck. The catch is that a bucket of random hooks only works if you already have them, so the rest of us would end up at the hardware store anyway.