Can't find anything when you want to use it? Got stuff spread all over the place? The time has come to get organised! Contrary to popular belief being organised does not require military standard precision it just needs a little bit of planning and you'll need to apply the logical part of your brain too if you want to see results from the process. Storage is the first and most important part of 'mission organization?! Racking and shelving used together seems to be the most common way of sorting an untidy area. It is pretty impossible to manage to keep an office or house tidy without shelving. Think about it - if you don't have anywhere to put anything what chance do you stand of living a clutter free life? The answer is absolutely none! Racking and shelving come in so handy when your planning the big sort out that once you buy a unit or two you will seriously wonder how you coped before without having them. When you do make the life choice of deciding you don't want to live in chaos anymore, make sure you consider your storage purchases carefully.

The main thing is to take a look round the house or office room by room and make a list of all the things you would like to store in your new racking and shelving. This way you will be able to work out what size of unit you require, how much shelf space you will need, what number of units to purchase, and how deep or high each shelf or rack needs to be to accommodate these items. Also think about how much the items will weigh. All units have a maximum load, and if this exceeded it makes the unit venerable and it may collapse.

As mentioned before and racking are really the main component of keeping an area clear and organised but there are other things you can do in combination with this to really get a space that even Edie from the TV show 'Desperate Housewives' would be proud of. Firstly, factor in a slot every other day for clearing and tidying, you can do it everyday if you want but most people find that a bit unrealistic. Doing this every other day means that you home or work place never has the chance to suffer from clutter. Also use labels. Labels are great for sticking on shelving and racking and will help you to remember what goes on what shelf and will also help you implement the idea of having an individually assigned space for different items. The other time labels come in to their own in particular, is in a shared environment where people might not know where things go. If you find the idea of sticking labels on your units a bit tedious then why not think about colour coding instead. and shelving is available in a veritable rainbow of colours so you can pick say blue shelving for important documents, red for kids toys, yellow racks for pens and pencils and green for CDs and DVDs.