Garage Storage Systems Guide

Why does sports gear always end up in the garage? Does anyone play football in their garage? Alas, it makes a better home than the closet or the yard. Especially if you spend some effort into having a few awesome sports racks to store your gear. In this article, let’s take a look at some popular sports racks and sports gear items for holding those baseballs, gloves, footballs, basketballs, soccerballs, and hockey sticks. Ah heck, we’ll even look at some golf racks for those of you who consider that a sport, too.

Up first…

The Ball Claw Basketball
Cost: Under $10
From: Target
Average Review: 5 Stars (Highest Possible Rating)

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Not sure what I like more: using the BALL CLAW to CLAW MY BASKETBALL, or just obnoxiously rhyming BALL AND CLAW as many times in one possible sentence reviewing the THE BALL CLAW BASKETBALL. Ok, I believe this is a stall. If ya’ll want me to get on the ball and review the claw, I guess I will indulge…

(Sorry.)

This thing is pretty self explanatory. It clamps onto your basketball so you don’t lose it in the garage. A nice – and clever – tool for garage storage when it comes to sports gear. And cheap too, costing about $8.99 currently at Target and other home department stores.

Included with the ball claw is the materials needed to mount it to any surface. Once that’s done, this makes for a totally stable basketball storage.

And for what it’s worth, they also make the same style product for the soccer ball, football, and volley ball. I guess baseballs were too small to bother with!

Suncast Golf Organizer
Cost: $80
From: Target
Average Review: 3 Out of 5 Stars

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This is a very usable golf organizer. It provides a generous amount of storage space for your golf gear, holding 2 large golf bags, with shelves on the side for all other golf gear, balls, tees, rain gear, and golf accessories that you don’t need inside the bag.

I’ve not assembled this personally, but have been told it’s “relatively easy to assemble” and is also “very sturdy”.

Basically, a good golf rack for the garage to hold all your misc. golf gear, including 2 packed golf bags that you can simply grab and then…go!

Rubbermaid Sports Station Storage Unit
Cost: $29.99
From: Target
Average Review: 4 out of 5 Stars

This is the type of sports rack I imagine people will get the most use out of for the price. At only $30, this is the perfect type of sports rack for putting in the garage and getting your kids to use to put all their gear and balls into.

The bottom of this “sports station storage unit” is a big mesh net, allowing you to both easily store and then SEE what’s inside it for easy retrieval. This is a good feature, as who wants to store their soccer balls and footballs inside something that you can’t see them anymore? Kids like to see their toys!

But the real magic of this unit is the upper portion of this sports rack. Take a look at the second photo here that I wanted to show you so you can see what I mean. It’s designed to securely hold all sorts of misc. sports gear in such a way that it really holds it in place, keeping it their, secure and stable. This is an awesome sports rack and I think you’d do well to buy this one over any other sports rack under $50 for the features it gives you.

It was also fun to read that one owner, in reviewing this item, stated their 7 year old put it together in all of 5 minutes. Now isn’t that the perfect sports rack? Not only will it get your kids to organize their sports toys, but your kids can even put it together themselves!

Please let us know your experience with any of these items, good or bad. How did it work for your sports gear? Would you recommend these sports racks to your family and friends? Why or why not?

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A Look at The Different Sports Organizers for the Garage

Sports gear items such as baseball bats, helmets, footballs, soccer balls, golf clubs – these types of items can clearly create clutter in a garage if they are loose and have no “place to go”.

The good news is that loose sports gear can easily be organized with a few simple items. Let’s take a look at some of the most popular options for organizing storage gear in the garage with what’s called a sports rack.

Rubbermaid offers a large storage box (which they call a Sports Gear Storage Station), with a solid top and a netted bottom and sides, for easy access to various items inside and the ability to place items securely on top. The Rubbermaid Sports Storage Station offers a decent amount of space at 36 inches by 36 inches by 18 inches. It also contains molded plastic in which common sports items will neatly fit into. It requires no special tools to assemble and runs $30-50 US.

The Sports Great Storage Station by Rubbermaid is recommended for those who have a lot of misc. sports gear they need to organize. This is also a popular item for kids sports gear as the molded plastic helps kids store the items properly and the see-through mesh makes storing balls and other smaller items easy, as well as making them easily findable.

For the adults who play golf, items such as Golf Racks and Golf Organizers work wonders for keeping clubs and associated items organized and clean. On the bargain end, a simple wall mounted golf rack will allow a golf bag with clubs, balls, etc to hang from the wall, keeping it off the garage floor and making it easily accessible. More elaborate items qualify as Gold Organizers and offer space for one or more players to store the bags, clubs, balls, cleaning materials, golf shoes, and other associated items. Golf Organizers usually offer a large space to secure the bag and clubs and then a series of shelves and racks for smaller items. Many are solidly made and can be considered a nice piece of furniture in their own right. Accordingly, the price tag reflects this and start at $100 to $200.

In the same vein as Rubbermaids  ports Gear Storage Solution, another great option for organizing sports gear in the garage is using a specially designed bench that opens up and allows for gear to be storage inside. Sports Benches create a space that children can easily access, store, and retrieve their sports items. Additionally, it doubles as a bench to sit on. The biggest hurdle with a storage item like this is the tendency to place other items on top of it, which then makes the items inside inaccessible. For an item that costs only $20-30, limited utiltiy can be expected!