On Saturday morning I decided to spend a little bit of time typing up my workshop. This is something I have been wanting to do for months but I’ve always put it off for some reason or made up some excuse for my wife that I was busy and didn’t have time to do it. Eventually, the time came where I was starting to find it difficult to find certain things so a reorganization and cleanup was definitely overdue.
Saturday morning was a beautiful morning the sun was shining albeit a little bit cold but still an amazing day considering its November. Besides cleaning I also wanted to do a little bit of maintenance that I have been putting off for a while. The last time I was mowing the lawn I simply did not get time to clean down the lawnmower and I also wanted to carry out a little bit of maintenance on this to ensure it would be okay when we get past the winter.
Once this was done it was time to put up some new shelves that I had purchased in one of the local DIY stores a few weeks ago. I had also purchased some storage boxes because I really needed to get organized and keep parts and bits and pieces in each box. The shelves took around 30 minutes to set up and then it was time to organize all the spare parts and bits and pieces I had. One of the first things I wanted to do was start looking at the amount of battery chargers I had. To be honest this is something that has really changed over the past few years. Not that long ago it was quite difficult to get some cordless equipment and nowadays I have a cordless saw, cordless drill, cordless sander and a cordless angle grinder. With this comes a many different chargers and batteries, don’t get me wrong this is not a bad idea and I’m not one to complain but this is one of the reasons I really needed to organize my workshop because every time I was using one of the cordless pieces of equipment it was taking me a long time to try find the charger and battery. Then I would discover that I had never actually recharge the battery and I would have to wait until this was done before I could use equipment (sometimes this was simply an excuse).
It took me just a short period of time to organize these and I was pleasantly surprised to find a couple of spare batteries and chargers that I didn’t even know I had purchased. This is something all of us DIY enthusiasts should sort out every now and again but I guarantee that many of you out there never bother doing this and then find it a pain in the ass to try find the equipment at some later stage.
Next I moved on to organizing all the rest of the spare parts that I had. It’s actually amazing at the amount of rubbish you can connect and I cannot have two ideas behind sorting out the workshop one was to get organized and the other was to start dumping lots of equipment and parts that are no longer have use for. Sometimes it’s the accumulation of this stuff that helps toward the unorganized workshop.
After a couple of hours everything was sorted it is amazing to be able to have the windows and doors of the workshop opened while I was sorting through everything. I must say it was the perfect Saturday morning for getting this type of work done and something I should have done a few months ago. All in all I am now 100% happy with the re-organize workshop I can now find things easily and I have removed lots of equipment and parts that I had no more use for. It’s something we all need to do at some stage and if you have a little bit of spare time this weekend maybe you should consider the spending a couple of hours sorting it out so it saves you some time later when you have to find something.