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The number of items a family accumulates over the years is amazing and sometimes overwhelming. Keeping items organized and safe is a major challenge for many of us. We purchase many containers and units to keep our objects in place, but sometimes we need a little extra help. Overhead garage storage is a great vehicle to use to maximize space on your property.

This area of a family’s property is not always utilized to it’s greatest potential. Overhead garage storage is an option that is commonly overlooked, but it can really help you prioritize your organization and keep things where they belong. Even though you have to put a little extra effort into getting items out of overhead garage storage spaces it is worth considering as an option.

Since the space is out of the way many of us avoid using it at all, but if we consider what we want to store away we can really reap the benefits of overhead garage storage space. Make a list of objects that are not accessed very often. There are some considerations to be made before putting items in overhead garage storage units so put everything you can on the list and work from there.

There is a reason that you can’t just make a list of unused or barely used items and start filling the overhead garage storage space. Many objects can not be subjected to extreme temperatures. These more delicate items may not be accessed very often but they will be damaged in harsh temperatures. These objects include some glass or crystal objects. Pictures, painting and artwork should never be put in an overhead garage storage space. Vintage clothing and wedding gowns are best kept indoors as well. These are just some of the many things that should not be included in the overhead garage storage unit.

Seasonal items are great for this type of space. You really only need them once each year so you rarely have to go into your overhead garage storage space to get them. A good idea for these items is to keep outdoor decorations and lights stored in the garage while indoor decorations stay indoors when not in use. This way you are sure not to subject delicate objects to extreme weather conditions. With a little thought you can create and organized overhead garage storage space that will help you maximize the area in your home.

When my husband and I moved from the mid-west to the east coast a few years ago, we discovered quickly that we had a problem. We had accumulated so much stuff during our five years in Nebraska that we couldn’t possibly fit it all in a U-haul to drag it halfway across the country, especially since there was the added complexity of also getting our two cars back east as well. We decided that one of us would drive a car and the other would drive the U-haul with the other car hitched to a tow hookup on the back. And to keep in touch with each other on the trip we bought a set of Motorola walkie talkies to use on the road between our vehicles.

At first the walkie talkies were a safety measure. If something happened to one of us and we needed to pull over, our walkie talkies would be a way to alert the other person to what was going on. The reality of how we used our Motorola walkie talkies on the trip was much less pragmatic than simple safety. We used them to entertain ourselves, amuse each other and have conversations while driving through ridiculously huge states with no good radio stations. Hello, Iowa, I’m talking to you!.

After a few hours, I began to see the Motorola walkie talkies as a way to give my husband status updates. I told him how the U-Haul looked from behind, I told him about the temperature in the interior of my car, I alerted him to a good song playing on the radio station I was listening to. We also each had a cat in our vehicles with us, so sometimes we would hold the walkie talkie up to the cat carrier to let it talk too. I guess what I’m trying to say is that driving across the United States, with only the cat in the carrier beside you as a companion, is a boring trip. Which is why we were so grateful for our Motorola walkie talkies.

We never used our walkie talkies again after completing the move. And I’d forgotten about them until recently when I found them in the basement while preparing for a yard sale. We thought about keeping them because they could come in handy for talking to each other in our four story house when we’re both on different floors. But we have an intercom system, so the Motorola walkie talkies really aren’t necessary. We decided to sell them at our yard sale for five dollars. And every person who looked at them had to listen to me rave about how great Motorola walkie talkies are for long trips, whether that’s what they wanted them for or not.