Storing a collection of tools is made all the more complicated if you want to be efficient. It’s best to learn early how to organize like a pro.
Anyone who works out of a toolbox for a living will tell you the same thing: your toolbox needs to match the way you work, not the other way around. You can achieve this by building your toolbox system around three pillars — a reset, functional grouping, and frequency-based placement, which is precisely how most pros do it. And by following suit, you get to maintain the speed and consistency that counts when working the real jobs.
Kick it off with a reset. By reset, we’re talking about emptying every drawer and cleaning every tool, as well as pulling anything that’s dull, bent, or just not worth keeping anymore. That clean slate gives you an honest inventory and stops broken tools from cycling back in to use up unnecessary space in the process.
Next, group by function. Keep drive tools together, wrench families together, pliers together, cutters together, and isolate precision or power tools so they don’t get damaged by heavy steel.
