Storage Saga

Like most people, our tool collection has grown slowly from humble beginnings. A screwdriver and hammer cadged from a parent. A 99 cent adjustable wrench from Walmart. A hand-me-down plastic toolbox. Before we moved into our house our tools largely fit into that toolbox. After a few years in our home our tools collection had expanded well beyond a single toolbox. 

For Christmas, our second gift was a full-height, two part Craftsman tool chest.

Four deep drawers in the bottom half and five skinnier drawers and a top hatch in the upper half. The bottom drawer is large enough to hold our power drills and bits.

We layered drawer liners everywhere to try and keep the tools in place and protect the metal drawers. 

Now, nearly all of the hand tools are in one place! There's even a system. Each drawer has some kind of theme or themes (cutting, pliers, power tools, wrenches). We still need to add labels so we know what the drawer is holding before we open them!

The only major category that hasn't been carefully arranged is the most difficult of all: the thousands of random bolts, nuts, nails,  and screws currently strewn across several plastic bins......