Today's post is about space. How many times do we let paint cans pile up in our valuable garage space? There may be paint from the last house we lived in out there. There may be paint cans in which the paint has totally dried up. Cans can take up a lot of space. Space which you could to use for things which are needed now.
So what is the solution? Enter ziplock containers! Most of the time the paint we are keeping is only going to be used for touch ups not to paint an entire room. If this is the case all you need to keep is a little bit. Now you can take the gallon paint can and pour up enough to fill a ziplock container. Then take your window scraper to remove the color coded label off the top of the can and place it on your new ziplock container. You have kept the most important information so if you do need another gallon you can take the top of the ziplock container with you and have then mix it.
These containers stack so well. Now the space needed for all your paint has been reduced to a small spot instead of half of your garage shelves. Who knows what all you will find as you rumble through those shelves. We found a bunch of stuff which had been lost for, well who knows how long?
Be sure to dispose of the leftover paint properly. The garbage dump usually accumulates it in hazmat containers so as not to pollute anything.
Now that is has turned a little cooler it is a great time to get out in your garage and purge that paint!
So long old paint and hello organized garage shelves.
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