Genius ways to clean up your garage

If you have kids, you have balls—basketballs, soccer balls, rubber balls, and other round objects that roll around underfoot. Here’s a perfect way to use that narrow gap between a pair of garage doors (if you’re blessed with such an awkward spot). Just install angled “ball ramps” made from scrap wood. The balls fit neatly in the gap, and because the ball ramp is right there at the edge of the garage, kids are more likely to use it.

Here’s a tool storage technique for all those slender tools and shop accessories. Cut short lengths of PVC pipe and slide them over pegboard hooks. Then load them up with files, hacksaw blades, zip ties, pencils, stir sticks…you get the idea.

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Here’s a slick way to store a whole cluster of tools on pegboard with only two pegs. Cut some 8cm wide mini shelves; drill holes or slots for router bits, screwdrivers, chisels and files; then drill a couple of 3mm holes in the edges for the 3mm diameter pegs. With a vice and pliers, bend the pegs to about 85 degrees and hammer them into the holes. Be sure the pegs fit tightly in the wood so the shelves can’t fall off. Build this simple pegboard storage area in your workshop or garage.

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Source: RD.com