Organization

Michael dumped out the tools onto the table, worrying more about making sure they didn't fall to the floor than he did about being neat in his emptying. There wasn't much point in trying to make it look neat - this was just a temporary home as he actually cleaned. He had spent too long working in cramped quarters with tools spewed about in every direction. It was becoming difficult just to work on anything, because so much of it was in the way and he didn't want to move it, knowing that he had no good place to put it.

It would be a project, for sure. He had already spent the better part of a week just trying to clear out the spare room in his garage - there was little place to put most of it, and unfortunately not all of it was junk, so he had had to organize just he could organize. It probably would have been considerably easier if he had had someone helping him, if for no other reason than he wouldn't have gotten physically exhausted so quickly, but it was his space, his work, his tools, and his project. It seemed silly to have someone else do the work for him. After all, it would be him using everything, and it was best if he knew exactly where everything had gotten placed.

First was his actual storage. He had built the decent sized cabinet some months prior, but he had done a poor job of actually using it at the time, and now it would be a job to actually move it into the side room. There were a number of things in the path between the cabinet and the door, and while he had done his best to make as much room as possible, there were many things that he simply couldn't move, and so it would be quite the obstacle to overcome.

Once that was complete, however, he could begin work on cleaning and storing the tools he had just finished dumping out onto the table. While that wouldn't be necessarily hard, it would be tedious, and he may very well decide that he did not like his basic idea for an organization as he went along and need to redo it all. After all, it would be the first time he actually organized his tools, and he wasn't entirely sure how he wanted to do it. While that was, theoretically, one of the easier steps, it would probably take him the longest.

But having an actual work space dedicated to his projects would be a huge benefit, both because he would actually have enough space to work on things, and because he would no longer have to worry about things being upset once he set them down. Not to mention it would be much easier to clean up.