{"id":33133,"date":"2015-05-27T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/?p=33133"},"modified":"2015-05-28T16:13:24","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T22:13:24","slug":"the-great-low-tech-one-day-garden-shed-reorganization-or-the-scream-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/the-great-low-tech-one-day-garden-shed-reorganization-or-the-scream-method\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Low Tech One Day Garden Shed Reorganization or the SCREAM Method"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn\u2019t have<\/strong> a particular plan, but the moment had presented itself and I knew that the time was right to take everything out of the garden tool shed. Okay, in all honesty, the moment was happening because I had hired the help of a young man for the day and he had finished the other things I wanted him to do. The time he had left to work for the day and the time I had available to direct him coalesced into, \u201cTake everything out of the yard tool shed and sweep it.\u201d<\/em> If he did that, I would have 24 hours to deal with it before the sprinklers went on. I added that he could try to pile things in categories.<\/p>\n

And so it was<\/strong> that the next day, I faced a very empty shed and heaps of stuff all over the lawn in front of it. I needed to make a plan very quickly, or it would be\u00a0water damaged or all go\u00a0back looking basically\u00a0the same. First, I reviewed my basic goals in my head.<\/p>\n

1. Maintainability. How would I put things back in so that there was a high probability of them being put away there again?<\/p>\n

2. Accessibility. How could things be arranged so that I could get to everything when I wanted it?<\/p>\n

3. Economical. How could I organize without spending any money on containers, or hangers, or anything else? Besides not wanting to spend money right then, I simply did not have the time to shop for them or install them.<\/p>\n

4. Cleaning. Was there a way to arrange it all so that it would be much more likely to get swept out and kept relatively free of insects?<\/p>\n

5. Safety. Where would I put things so that people (read that: the 4th<\/sup>\u00a0child or me) would be less likely to cut themselves on tools, or so that chemicals were in appropriate environments?<\/p>\n

6. Recycle. What did I have that should be repaired, remembered, or repurposed?<\/p>\n

For the fun of it<\/strong> I am going to reorder those items and call this the SCREAM method of organizing.<\/p>\n