Need Help Cleaning the Garage
- Vytal Coach Camille
- Jul 1, 2024
- 7 min read
Updated: Aug 6
Summary:
Need help Cleaning the Garage? Get Our Best Practices, many great tips, Organizational systems, how to crush it, how to keep it clean, No more procrastination
These Must-Read Tips Make It Easy
Keep up With the Science, Crush Procrastination and If You Need Help Cleaning the Garage Keep Reading
Learn strategies to reduce task avoidance in everyday life and ways to think and react that will make clean the garage much easier.
If You are a Master a Procrastination, Start Now, and if You Need Help Cleaning the Garage, Let's Just Do It!
As life coaches, we see people who show signs of something bigger such as passive avoidance behavior, task avoidance behavior, and compulsive task avoidance.
We help people during life coaching session to combat this type of thinking which can severely set you back in life, if not dealt with.
Want to Feel Better About Life?
Studies have shown that clutter causes notable decline in happiness and fulfillment. That is the reason why I wrote this post - to give you a nudge, if you need help cleaning the garage.
You will feel better about your life and your living space, so stop thinking about lot and we'll get it done. and once it's done, stay mindful and make it a life habit to keep clutter from sneaking back.
Task Avoidance is a Real Thing
if your garage is a mess, but you can't seem to stop putting off cleaning it, begin by reading the list of ways to crush procrastination, right here and now. After you have taken a minute to process or save these ideas to review and practice later, you'll be so ready to read my step-by-step how-to-clean-a-messy-garage in one weekend.
Pointers and Tips That Really Work to End Avoidance and If You
Need Help Cleaning the Garage
Task avoidance is a major problem faced by people all over the world. And it's very common place.
Think about the last time you procrastinated or put something off. If the task is too daunting, try these strategies:
Break your work into smaller tasks
Delete tasks from your mile-long to-do list
Commit to doing an average job
Work in short bursts of time
Use affirmations
Reward yourself
My special tip: Use a stopwatch to help you work faster and to provide motivation,
(Beat-the-clock)
("Messy House Clean-Up" is Comin' Up in Another Post Soon-so Check Back) Now, Time to Check Out These Expert Garage Cleaning Guidelines
BEST TIPS TO CLEAN OUT THE GARAGE
Have a plan, a timeframe, a sitter, and a few helpers and choose a weekend with good weather. You will get the job done!
Make sure to have a plan, a schedule, someone to watch over things, and a couple of assistants, and pick a weekend with favorable weather. This will ensure successful completion of the task!
5 Tips to Be Successful if You Need Help Cleaning the Garage
1. Have a supply of cooked food, snacks and drinks prepared ahead of time
2. Wear work clothes and work shoes to complete this task safely
3. Purchase new, or gather together cleaners, boxes, plastic tubs, work gloves, dust mask, duct tape, paper, and markers.
4. I work better when I turn on the tunes, but you might choose audiobooks or podcasts - anything to keep you pumped up and moving forward
5. Set up your outside workspace (patio, driveway, sidewalk, lawn) move the cars, set up a table for sorting things, and have a big garbage pail close by
I make a "domain zoning plan" for the inside of our garage space, to help us stay in the groove. See domain below.
Categories for Where to Put Items we Take Out of the Garage
We also try to organize everything into categories. You could use these general categories that work for us during your cleaning or design your own depending on the size of, and clutter in, your garage space.
The Master Plan Stage for All Our Stuff:
Put in a different place - back yard, basement, shed, truck or car, etc.
Donate
Retain
Throw out
Recycle
Action items (things you need to return to your lender, anything that needs repair) items that need to be taken in for repair)
Garage Sale, eBay, Etsy
15 Expert Tips to Use Before, During and After Deep Cleaning the Garage
1. As you are cleaning up, think about purchasing a strong shelving unit for your garage walls
2. Remove big items (worktables, vacuums, etc.) for more cleaning space
3. Pick up small things, such as tools, decorations and separate by category. See Above. Lay down the number of tarps you require and put your piles of stuff on each tarp. Different colored tarps help keep the piles from spilling into each other and help you easily get into your "work-rhythm
4. Make sure that only the stuff you want to sell (or keep) goes back into the garage
5. Look up at the ceiling and walls and sweep both, double checking for hiding spots for insects and critters. Clean behind and under anything against the walls, around window ledges, including the gap between the drywall and the floor
6. Plug any holes with spray foam insultation, make small repairs, and caulk
7. Wipe down surfaces and tops of large tools, workbenches and tables
8. If you decided to put in strong shelves, paint, or install light fixtures or change light bulbs, do so at this time
9. Sweeping the whole floor twice, taking care of oil spills and then damp mopping it again with a recommended concrete floor cleaner is a good idea if the floor is not painted. If it is painted, mop the floor with hot soapy water and rinse. Use an air mover to dry the floor, either way
Need Help Cleaning the Garage...and the Garage Door?
5 Tips to Remember Include:
Clean/wipe down both sides of the garage door and any other doors going into the garage
And don't forget that garage door opener. Lubricate and adjust it now.
Wipe down both sides of all windows and check for any cracks in the windows. Pick another weekend to either fix or replace if you find some that need to be fixed
Change out or clean window coverings or screens, but don't clean the windows until the end of your clean up
Get rid of big items in the garage now, before they become "lay-down areas."
Visualizing Your Pristine Garage Will Help You Keep Working
You Could Still Use Help... Time to Put Stuff Back In!
Read 10 Tips from Experts to Help You Build Your Organized Shangri-La
Keep things of the floor as much as possible
Lock up anything dangerous, and child-proof this space
Use plastic bins with tight lids to keep them closed and label each bin as soon as it is full
Put bins on sturdy shelves
Heavy things like the lawn mower, leaf and snow-blowers are placed for easier access
The "toy domain" is the ceiling where we keep our bikes, kayaks and fishing rods-decide what works for you
Items that are only used a few times a year are put into places that aren't as convenient to reach
In addition to shelving and hooks in the walls, keep your eyes open for garage storage solutions you want to add, as your situation changes
Putting stuff in their proper domains only gets easier as you keep working on cleaning the garage.
Celebrate the moments!
Hacks to Make Your Garage Walls Work for You
Make the most of your wall space and line the walls with:
Pegboards for smaller items
Cabinets for things that need protection
Rack units for lumber or recreational equipment
Industrial wire shelving for easily accessible items
Brackets to hold long-handled items like brooms
A workbench for power tools, nails and screws
Congratulations! You Stayed on Track and Your Job is Done!
Going From This...
To This...
In One Weekend...Or maybe two ✌
Ya gotta' love it!
Final Words
For when you need help cleaning the garage & useful simple tips to KEEP It Clean
Set a time for regular garage cleaning and put it on your calendar
Have a designated trash can recycling bin, broom, dustpan and roll of paper towels in the garage to keep the dirt, leaves and junk from building up
General safe cleaners can be kept handy for spill clean-up
Put an indoor/outdoor rug in front of the man-door and main door going back into the house to catch leaves and dust
Make sure the garage door fits tightly
Use a light-weight ladder to place things back on shelves, hooks or in cabinets and make it a habit to put everything you take out of the garage space back in when you're done using it
Conclusion:
Starting to get organized can be overwhelming. How do you get organized when you're overwhelmed? One little step at a time!
If cleaning the garage feels like a fate-worse-than-death, use these tips to help clean the garage.
It's a wonderful feeling to know you will be able to find what you need without spending your valuable time digging around for it, and you will feel more self-love.
What have you done to make your garage a space to be proud of?
Please let me know - see the comments below.
~Coach Cammi~
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