Maybe the saying that says something like, the doing of a chore almost always takes as long as the time allocated for it, may also apply to storage: we tend to keep things as long as we have some place to stow them. Look at the clutter in your garage and you can see the truth of this. Even the wall storage systems that are supposed to have only ordinary items and tools may hide articles of uncertain use but are kept there for a long time now. Same with the small bathroom storage that makes the room appear like a garage.
The most obvious solutions for that are of course throwing away the superfluous items and re-storing the kept ones. Throw away those you do not need, and keep only the ones you have some use for. Only you can determine which items may be disposed of without hurting your pocket and your sentiments, but in storing the remaining items there might also be advices worth some attention. Two of these are moving racks and carousel storage.
Everyone is very familiar with upright storage, those shelves and frames either on the wall or standing on the floor that appear like islands inside warehouses and large garages. On their containers are the numerous stored items, perhaps sorted according to some systems or not at all, loose or in boxes, barrels and other containers. Among these frameworks are aisles for item retrieval, either by a human or machine like a forklift or hand truck.
What to do if these shelves are full but no additional floor space is available is the quandary. The solution perhaps, moving racks or moving storage. Add some wheels or casters (for lighter shelves and contents) under the free-standing shelves and frames and you can push them closer when they are not used, creating more floor space for more storage racks. A good portion of aisle space inside a warehouse or garage is just wasted when not in use, so using this unused floor area by pushing racks into them successfully cracks much of the storage question.
On the other hand, though vertical carousels do not in fact reate new space, they can eliminate the room required to place stairs or elevators when the required articles are on the higher shelves. Imagine it; as a Ferris wheel on bicycle chains working like a dumbwaiter and then you have the idea. Its main benefit lies in its ability to present the wanted items always at the regular height, although carousels are normally useful only for tiny things that may be messed up together inside a bin like nuts, nails, short rods and similar others.
Moving racks and carousel storage are just two of the newfangled though hardly original ideas in storing items, and these ideas are appropriate in various magnitudes: garage-, home-size or bigger. It can be also most appropriate for keeping tools, equipment and articles in the basement where storage room is also at a premium.
Whatever is your storage headache, moving upright storage systems will be of assistance, in various functionality and efficiency, of course.
