hey guys and welcome back to the channel this video is going to be slightly
different than what you are used to because it's going to be a gear
organization transformation but first story time once upon a time i moved to a
new house with high hopes to build a nice
neat storage space in the garage for my hiking and backpacking gear
that looks like this this or maybe this and then the coronavirus hit
or at least that's what i'm trying to tell myself
that project got de-prioritized so that we can focus on better things
like backpacking in the bedlands or climbing to the highest peak of south
dakota or seeing mount rushmore for the first
time and a couple of other things in between
and instead i came up with the temporary solution of using this storage space in
the house to organize all the hiking and
backpacking gear that was just brought in in the garage
and you changed from this into this and this is what you are going to watch
next so enjoy the show alright so i started by bringing all of
the hiking and backpacking gear that i own
in one spot and that's the hallway so a lot of
backpacks sleeping bags tents trekking poles
some knickknacks and it was really helpful to kind of look at
everything that i have go through it see what i
use on a regular basis things that i don't
need see if i have to donate them or throw them
so that was very helpful and it's just amazing
how i was able to find in every single room a piece of gear
alright so now let me introduce you to this
messy embarrassing storage space in my house
that clearly has tons of unnecessary things
things that i probably never use oh my god look at this bag it's
probably six years old and i never used it before
but anyway so just a lot of go up the chair down the chair
try not to break anything get rid of things that i don't need and that's
going to be the new home for my backpack in here
yay making progress all right giving it the thumbs up
looking happy celebration dance and yeah that's
looking much better
so i kind of knew that i wanted to start with the big threes and that is
backpacks sleeping system including sleeping pads sleeping bags pillows and
hammocks and the tents so the first shelf i
dedicated it for the sleeping bags just because it was a little bit higher
and larger than the other ones and i was very happy that i was able to fit all of
the backpacks in one spot
so these are pretty much our backpacking bags
our bags for day hikes and then some small camel bags for running and such
and then the second shelf i dedicated this one to
tents i have pretty much a four people tent and then a two people
tent and two camping chairs one for me one for alex
and then i also placed this lamp this lonely little lamp that we got for
a car camping trip to new mexico i believe
i really like this lamp because it had the usb plug so i was able to use it to
charge my phone at night and then the third shelf i dedicated it
to sleeping bags we have a couple of them with different
temperatures and then sleeping pads pillows and
hammocks
so that's starting to look a lot nicer and i was happy to get all the big
threes out of the way just because they are bulky and they take a lot of space
so now that i got most of the heavy bulky gear out of the way
i'm going to spend a good amount of time on these little knickknacks
just to kind of organize them and categorize them so that it's easy for me
to store
all right so next are the little knickknacks and that was not my favorite
part just because i had to go through
everything and sort in details so a bunch of hats i see there i'm
giving it the thumbs up i'm not sure why
but yeah so a bunch of electronics gloves i actually see cheese sticks
there what is it doing there that's
embarrassing
oop dumped everything some board games trekking poles hats
toiletry
so the plan was to come up with the categories
just so that it's easier i see that i mean putting all the toiletry in that
box there batteries oh that's a game
it's actually a board game that we bought from one of the national parks it
was really fun to play oh dream capture
see hand warmers ropes
holy moly
i don't think that i own a lot of gear but at the same time when i look at this
it just makes me think that it's still a lot the only time i probably used hand
warmers was in yellowstone because the temperature was really
brutal it was so very cold
so
not the best categorization style but it's a start
so i've got utensils knives maps electronics
and then here we've got hygiene stuff i've got headlamps
sunscreen tape
so i knew that i needed additional bins for storage
but i didn't want to buy them randomly so instead what i did was
grab a pen grab a piece of paper and try to plan it out ahead of time
and i basically just draw shelves and boxes based
on the categories that i identified and so that really
helped me plan how many bins i needed and from there
i took a trip to the targets nearby as well as
home goods i initially wanted to go with the
white and gray as a color palette but i didn't find a lot of options so instead
i ended up with gray and pink and i really like these boxes or bins because
they were covered then i had an option to either
keep the lid on or remove it based on what i want to do with it
i got some more containers these two baskets here that i got from home goods
and then i got this large one for heavier items probably water
bladders will fit good in here especially that it's open
and i can reach easily and i already see that i have two boxes on the shelf there
so i used one of them for the propane canisters
as well as the jet of oil and then the larger one i dedicated it for
gloves and i was actually very surprised at how many winter gloves i have
and then the other two bins just fighting my way through cutting the
piece of plastic there but i used one of them for sunscreens as
well as toiletry yep that's exactly what it
is because i can see my go girl and the second bin
i used it for hand warmers as well as emergency blankets
i love love love emergency blankets i take them with me
pretty much every hike never use them but they can come in very handy in
emergencies and i probably used this bin to store my
covers my rain covers so that worked out pretty well and then
i used this gray bin to store all of the hydration
bladders that we have as well as some of our filtration
systems this is what i use to filter the water
if we are going on backpacking trips and we need water
for cooking as well as drinking i'm using it to store some cups as well oh
never mind no cups
and cover that put it on the shelf and we're grooving
i don't have footage for the next shelf but i pretty much just followed the same
with additional bins and i stored my crompons my rain gators
and some electronics
and the last step i placed some hooks on the door
to place my beautiful dream catchers
and i just thought that it's going to give it a bit more personality and now
they will have a place to call home because they were just thrown everywhere
i remember that alex gifted me two of them and then the third one
was given to us during our tour in antelope canyon
so i am very happy with the results this looks
very nice so far i'm happy that i was able to fit everything in there
i was hoping that i can also place hiking shoes and boots in there but i
didn't have enough space but this was good enough as a temporary
solution and i'm really happy with the results
now if you guys will find value in this video but i know that some of
you over on instagram really liked it when i was
sharing daily updates and some of you helped me actually pick
the colors for the bins because i was just kind of
lost in there and indecisive so thank you guys for helping me out
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