How to Organize You Home’s Tool Box in 5 Minutes

With a finish carpenter husband, you’d think we’d always have the right tools and supplies in the house.

Not so — when I’m looking for a screw or pliers or an allen wrench, I can’t find what I need half the time.

This is what my tool box looked like.

I love an organized house and have been wanting to organize my tool box so I can at least find the supplies that I do have.

So when I saw these see-through, divided containers at Target for only $1 each, I took that as a sign and bought three.

While Don and Landon were gone for a while today, I pulled out our tool box and dumped everything on the kitchen table.

I put all of the tools back into the plastic bin and then divided up the small hardware items like washers and screws in those little boxes.

And only five minutes later, my tool box looked like this:

Mission accomplished:

I now know which supplies we do have
I know where they are
I can easily find them in these inexpensive, see-through storage boxes

I’m kind of looking forward to the next time I want to to fix something or hang a picture — from now on it’s going to be so easy to find what I need.

It doesn’t have to take a lot of money or time to have an organized home.

Could your tool box use a makeover? Or do you have any tips on how you organize your home? Let us know in a comment!

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Dear Crissy July 16, 2012 at 2:34 PM

Ah, nice and tidy! We need to organize about 30x this amount of tools, but this is motivating, thanks!

Dagmar July 16, 2012 at 10:13 PM: Hi Crissy, this is only my little toolbox in the house, we tackle my husband’s garage full of tools and supplies about once a year. But I got plenty more to organize in the house :)

PragmaticMom July 16, 2012 at 12:35 AM

I love a vicarious organization makeover. It must be the hot weather, but everyone I know seems to be purging and organizing. My kids all did their rooms today (not done yet), and I went to use my neighbor’s recycling bin — the one that doesn’t mind b/c it’s just two of them, and theirs was full too from purging!