I’m sure that a lot of men are like me in that
they have distinct memories from their childhood of their father and his tools.
Perhaps it was a separate garage packed to the brim with all sorts of tools for
pretty much anything you could imagine. Or maybe it was watching him change the
oil in the family cars, sliding in and out underneath a jacked up vehicle for a
few hours on a weekend.
No matter what their memories were, I’m sure
they’re similar to mine in the fact that their dad had little to no organization
with his tools. (Surely I’m not the only one, right?) Even though I knew that a
bit of organization was something that would solve a lot of problems if only he
had done a day’s worth of cleaning and rearranging, I’m still the same way my
dad was. I don’t have my own garage and all sorts of tools yet, but I can admit
that a lot of the stuff in my home is in places that I’d be able to find but no
one else would.
The problem is that all this kind of
unorganized chaos can become a headache. And when all it takes is proper use of
packaging supplies, like a few cardboard boxes, some packing tape to write
labels on, and a few hours of your time . . . Well, it’s that easy. That’s
about all it takes, yet there are people out there like my dad and me who always
find a way to get out of organizing their things.
The funny thing is that it’s not even easier
by any means to skip out on organizing things. It actually wastes more time
than if you would just tidy up and put things in those cardboard boxes and use
your packaging supplies that you know are sitting around other parts of the
house.
It actually can cause more stress than just
cleaning the garage for one day when you think about it. Like, how much time do
you think your dad spends looking around the garage for a single tool? For one
particular instance, maybe just a few minutes. But when this happens multiple
times a month and accumulates over the course of a year, there would be much
more time saved and stress relieved by just getting down to business for an
hour or two on a Saturday and cleaning like there’s no tomorrow.
