Clutter Video Tip: How to Organize Batteries

We all have them- they’re bulky, round, heavy and they really hurt when they fall on your toe. Today I am talking batteries. How do you store batteries, make them easily accessible and keep them off of your toes? These tips will help you clean up your power station so you can keep going, and going, and going…

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Transcript:

Hi. I’m Lorie Marrero, and today’s Clutter Video Tip is about organizing batteries. I bought, a long time ago, a product that I thought was a good idea for organizing batteries. It’s called the “Battery Rack” and you can see it here behind me on the door. It has slots for all the different sizes of batteries, and it has a tester built right in.

So this is great unless you buy your batteries in large bulk packs from the warehouse store like we do. And then you have an overflow of the batteries that won’t fit into the rack and it hasn’t really solved your problem. So here in my utility room I’ve got six Akro bins, and you can find those at any organizing retailer, and they just stack really easily because they are made to do that. And they fit a lot of batteries in each compartment, and you can easily reach into them and get what you want. Also, as you know, I talk about visibility being the goal of almost any organizing project. And it’s so easy to see what you have and any person in the family can walk up and get exactly what they need.

Now, one of the things that is a very important component of a battery area, a battery storage place, is a tester. So if you don’t have this battery rack on the door, I just leave this one here because it’s pretty convenient for the tester. You can buy a tester like this at any home improvement store. They have lots of different choices of types that they sell. And don’t skip this step, because many people’s batteries get disorganized just because they can’t tell the dead ones from the good ones.

Speaking of the dead batteries, you need to have a place for those to go because you don’t want to throw those in the landfill. You need to dispose of them properly. This is a sandwich meat container that I just repurposed. I cut a hole in the top and I wrote “Dead Batteries Go Here.” I made an identical container to this, and I put it in the family room where my kids watch TV and play video games, because when they’re replacing the batteries from the remotes and the video game controllers, often they will throw those on the floor or put them in between the sofa cushions, and when they have their own container there, that problem gets solved too.

So organizing your batteries in your utility room is a great example of an easy project that you could get done with our 7-Day Quickstart. We will help you for free for your first seven days and you can find out more about that at clutterdiet.com/quickstart.

See you next time, and may you always be happy and grateful for having more than enough.

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