Quickly Organize Your Kids Sports Equipment

Do you have kids that play sports? Chances are that if they do, your house is full to the brim of sports equipment. Issues and stress in the home often start with no enough space to store things. Don’t let your child’s sports equipment create stress in your life.

Organize Pesky Sports Equipment

Choose a Location

The first step in organizing, is to choose a place to store equipment. Sports stuff tends to be seasonal, so select a place that be multipurpose. In the off season you can pick a more “out of the way” storage location like an off site storage unit. For inside the home, we suggest using a place that is near the entry/exit of the home. This way you can just grab the items you need and head out the door, no searching the house for missing things.

Label and Separate

If you have more than one child, make sure to label everything, names etc and keep the items separate. Fights can start if a piece of sports equipment is being worn by the wrong person. Plastic storage bins are great for this and they can withstand quite a beating, not to mention they might help keep the smell down!

Sports Shoe Racks

Try not to mix up regular footwear with sports footwear. Having a separate shoe rack for sports uses will keep people happier in the home. This secondary shoe rack can also be kept out of the way of the main, as it won’t be used as much.

Dirty Clothes in Laundry

Instill the habit of placing dirty sports equipment inside the laundry hamper. Might be a good idea to grab a secondary “sports only” hamper to keep smelly gear away from the rest of the clothes. “If kids can remember to take off their jerseys and dirty soccer socks and put them in the mudroom or laundry room before they go up to their rooms, that will solve a lot of issues,”

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Mike Olsen

18:58 16 Oct 19

This is inexpensive storage that operates 100% as advertised - they do not offer 24/7 access and do not charge 24/7 access pricing. They are incredibly responsive to requests to unlock doors and provide access. It is not fancy but if you need a clean, dry place to store your stuff, you can't beat these guys. Don't expect bells and/or whistles but you also won't be paying for them.

Dave Shirlaw

01:54 10 Jun 19

Have to phone to have buildings unlocked. Annoying.

megan chow

23:06 21 May 19

sara ~

01:04 25 Sep 18

Prices are 1/2 the price of other storage units but it shuts down (locked gates) from 10 am - 6 pm except if you have the enormous ground level outside facing units. Those hours are impossible. The technology getting items up to the second story is an actual forklift thats made stationary. You balance your items up the forklift (and you raise the wooden pallet up yourself) Then you must walk up stairs and hope their is a dolly available to wind precariously around tiny turning hallways. Budget carpentry and ancient carpet in the units. The trolleys sound and feel like their from 1980's and are either coached to disobey or they keep their own counsel. They say its secure but I had a neighbor pick something up and they weren't even asked for permission. I explicitly stated only I was to have access. They said they do not let it happen. The locks are your own, but the flip closure is attached by 3/4 wood screws easily and possibly quite quietly could be opened and emptied with no one batting an eye. A kid could detach it with anything. They have "24 hour security" which means a guy lives on site. Does he/she have CCTV access? Probably not, nor would you want that job. Are there motion sensors? Not likely as sometimes the lights won't turn on and finding a switch in the straggly wandering corridors is impossible. They do not offer insurance. You have to sign forms saying all the things you will and won't do, but they are not liable if anything happens: theft, fire, water, vandals, pests etcSo despite all those complaints, its still 4/5 only because of the prices.