Help me get organized!

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My room is to smsll for what I have aquired and use.
I have some serious rearangeing to do and come up.with a better system for organizing my stuff.
I should be done working here shortly and will have some time to get my crap together.
You need to take the time and make it easy on yourself. Once it gets organized you will want to do the reliading stuff.
I have some brass storage containers comeing in the mail.here shortly. I will be building a storsge box on wheels for powder, dies & brass. Once I build it I can keep it in a extra bedroom and it will clean out my small walk in closet/gun/reloading room.
 
My problem is I have two hobbies, guns and old cars, which are interspersed in my workshop. I cannot stress enough the need to label, as noted above.
 
Dedicated space with a door would be my suggestion

You need to start here. Anything from a closet to a spare room.

Then build a bench and some shelves.

Then start unpacking your boxes and store your stuff.

Set goals. A little here, a little there. Be flexible.

Buy or collect some plastic containers for your brass, bullets or components. And some sharpies.

You posted that you have a new energetic girl friend. Maybe you can recruit Her to help.

There is a thread on this site about loading benches. Most other forums also have one. Check them out for ideas.

I've been where you are. Trying to balance a very demanding job with a home life. My hobbies began to feel like work. No time for myself. Every free minute of off time was kids ball games, Scouts, yard work, ect. Everything you said brought back memories. Tired and stressed all the time. Been there and done that! ( Except for the new girlfriend )

Sit down and take a deep breath. Make up a schedule. Get the girlfriend on board. Get the family on board. Schedule some time for each of them. Schedule some "me" time. Be flexible.

Good Luck
 
outside of the mounted press, just about everything gets put in a box container or toolbox. one thing I find helps is categorize tools and equipment into areas separate from supplies used to make rounds. You've just removed 50% of having to look for something if you know shells will be in one box vs. say - shell holders. For me, one thing I've started to benefit from as well lately is categorizing things by size. Small tools, all get put into the same little toolbox, so if I want a points file, or a little pick, or a small screw driver, all those things are in the same place. Powder and Primers - get their own location, so really - I guess I have most things is 3 possible places, and a few things in a maybe 4 square foot area on the bench. I also did start to keep a folder and a notebook, and write down what I'm doing and where I left off. In process work I just leave there on the bench under a few shop towels just to keep dust off it - and I put the notebook right on top of it.
 
There are hundreds of ways to organize your reloading area, everyone does it different to meet their particular needs. My philosophy is Everything needs a place...and keep it in its place. Storage cabinets and tool boxes work for me, your needs may be quite different.

Lots of organizational cliches that get bandied about, but it really boils down to personal discipline. If you're a perfectionist then it will show in your reloading area.....if you're a sloppy undisciplined person no amount of shelves, bins or cabinets will help you.

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I cant take it anymore. I need help organizing my reloading stuff and staying on track. I find myself missing parts, missing brass, missing bricks of primers, missing bullets, ammo boxes, shell holders, etc. I hide all my reloading stuff when little ones come to visit and it ends up in 10 different places. I sometimes go months without reloading so I forget stuff.
Send it all to me....it will take me a few months but I will inventory it for you...:D...I'll send it back when you remember who you sent it too.
 
Looks like some great ideas in this thread, so I want to be sure and get back to it and do a little mining.

As far as brass goes, I collect the plastic nut jars (mostly the Costco ones), wash them out good, and use them for brass. I drop a card in to indicate what's there. The 223 has only been tumbled, so no card, but should maybe have a "223 mixed" card in it. I sort rifle brass for specific head stamps and the rest goes into a mixed jar. Some pistol brass gets sorted - mostly into headstamps to keep, and mixed 'I don't care if I lose it' varieties.

Also, I have an old dresser I fixed up (beefed up the drawers) for brass and some components.

I have a old tool cabinet (replaced with a better one for garage tools) that I repurposed for reloading. I put primers in one of the drawers.
 

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Handloading should not bore you. Everyone needs a break to maintain focus, but let’s face it, we’re doing the most mundane of tasks, repetitively, where a mistake can remove the sight from your head.
Absolutely - it's perfectly ok to take time away from reloading. Some people take years off. Then things change, and they're right back into it. There's been a few threads about that.
 
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