"New" garage organization technique

 First, I didn't reorganize the garage because the stocks kept rising. I hope they stop so I can cash in to get brush nickel finish steel cabinets all around the garage walls.

Then I hope the stocks rise again so I have the money to reorganize the garage properly.

Next I am not sure if I still want the house so it was fruitless to revamp the garage.

Finally, I learned to work with what I have, including the wooden shelves and on-wall planks that the previous owner or his tenants built many years ago. I also have many things brought over the years but never put them on, including two pegboards.

I never use the pegboards much. Say if I took five tools out for the weekend, I wouldn't have remembered where and how to put them back in the same place. I know the usual technique is to draw an outline of the tool on the pegboard but that's too inflexible. I fix sprinklers, do oil change and customize curtains. I need to be able to organize as I go along.

My garage is in a mess because without a plan, I am afraid if I put something out of sight, I would not be able to recall where it is.

In the end, I think I nailed it with the help of computers. Computerization is one big possible solution since the 60's, but the difference is, nowadays it's so easy to take pictures. You have the phone all the time and it's linked to the cloud. The cheapest smart phone will give you enough resolution for documents without scanning, just what spies do.

It's not just building a database. It's like unifying the paradigms, virtually and in real life.

So my pegboard isn't just pegboard, but pegboard with icons! I bet nobody posted those pictures yet. Each icon has a pinched hole for hanging on the pegs. No glue and totally flexible.

For power tools, they are on a horizontal "pegboard". I borrowed the idea elsewhere that is like a long box with partitions. Since I have wall shelves, I immediately got the top and bottom of the box without doing anything. I don't need no partition as they are just for the cords.

I was thinking of many ways to fix the tools in position. Metal brackets are too expensive at over $2 a piece. Can use PVC but I need one PVC plug and coupling for each vertical fat peg. I don't do woodwork since I do not have the space to put up with a table saw. Then it dawned on me that I can simply use long nails! In the picture you can see 4 nails for each tool driving into the wooden shelf board at an angle. The icons have punch holes that hangs on the nails.

It is surprisingly flexible. If I want to change position, I can just pull out the nails. Come to think of it, why we need pegboards in the 1st place? Can we use nails instead of pegs?