Get organized, Tips

Sport equipment- the skateboard that trips you up each time you venture into the garage.
FIX. Keeping gear in the net bags in a hall closet: "Those rope bags from health-food stores are great." Stow tennis balls and baseballs in one or a basketball in another and hang them on hooks. For bats, rackets, and golf clubs, Cutler recommends repurposing an umbrella stand .

Vases.
The lasting effects of the various bouquets you received over the years. Fix. You really need only three kinds of vases. New York City- based event planner Davis Stark suggests a bud vase, for one or two stems; a cup-shaped vessel, for small bouquets; and a cylindrical vase, for bunches of long-stemmed flowers. But if you like your large collection, follow the advice of Meredith Waga "I nestle envases inside one another and put paper towels between them so they don't rattle,"she say. And never store vases unther the kitchen sink, she say: "You can easily knock them over and break them. I like to put vases up on a shellf, where they're better protected."