The original purpose for most garages is to store vehicles and they do excel at this.  Keeping your car locked away in a garage shields it from the weather, passers-by who may scratch or lean on it and of course safe guard it from thieves.  These are all beneficial to car owners, can save money on car repairs and maintenance bills and with some insurance companies even reduce your car insurance premium.

In times of financial struggle any which way to reduce outgoings needs consideration and it’s possible that the garage isn’t the first thing that comes to mind.  Clearing your garage of clutter can release space to store valuable possessions such as cars and motorcycles, especially older or classic vehicles that are prone to the dreadded rust!

Implementing a storage solution in a garage can also provide space to securely store tools and other valuable items such as golf clubs or bikes.  Having a dedicated area to lock such items away means that they are out of the house, but easily accessible and most importantly secure.

There are also in-direct benefits of making your garage a secure and weatherproof area for storage.  One such example is for those who like to store packaging, it’s not unusual to keep the box for a computer or television as it’s well known that if  the time ever came to sell it, a much better price can be achieved if the original packaging is still in a uasble state.

Unleash the storage potential of your garage and the opportunity to save some money at the same time.

Garage storage is an extremely “convenient” way to store your stuff. But ask yourself this question. How much is it costing?

Keep reading this article and you will discover a secret that I and only a handful of others know of, or have considered. And in a moment you may be wondering what you will do with the extra $1,000 per year you’ll be saving if you follow my advice.

You may already know this but, more than 30% of U.S. homes use the garage for storage, while their cars are parked in the street.

I hate to admit it, but I was once among that 30%. I spent years parking two $20,000 automobiles on the street, while we stored our “stuff” in my two-car garage. What’s worse, was that the value of the stuff we were storing had a grand total value of less than $3,000, on a good day.

Every year, I spent hundreds of dollars repairing my cars from dents, dings, broken windows, and the scrapes from the neighborhood street traffic. Not to mention the outright break-ins we suffered from the late night vandals. And there is no telling how much money I lost in trade-in value due to the faded paint from prolonged exposure the direct sunlight.

Then, one day I ran across a National Association of Builders statistic that reminded me of something really important. The NAB stated that the average U.S home cost was approximately $95 per square foot. When I did the math, I realized that my house was right in line with the average.

So my garage being around 400 square feet had cost me nearly $40,000, and I was using it for storage! All the while it was costing me over $1,000 a year in car repairs while my “stuff” took up my entire garage.

It didn’t take long to begin an investigation into alternative storage space. And after looking at rental units, and pre-fabricated storage units I found a set of simple storage shed plans that saved me thousands of dollars over time.

Now that you have read this article I’m sure you’ll want to visit http://www.squidoo.com/Simple-Storage-Shed-Plans, or click the link to garage storage and learn about how to get your hands on a proven and cost effective way to solve your storage problems.