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Sticky Storage Tips for a Safe and Organized Home

Velcro tape has many uses. Safety tips for an organized home include securing dangerous items to prevent breakage and injuries. There are many home storage ideas using velcro that the person who invented velcro would never have thought of.

Safety Tips to Organize Your Home

You can use velcro in your organized home to secure hard to store items that fall over and land on your feet. You home is safer when awkward items like florescent tubes are prevented from falling over and shattering glass all over the place.

Here are a few home storage ideas if you are considering using velcro tape for your storage needs:

• Keep the hook and loop rolls separately in a baggie with a "zip" top and leave a small opening. No more tangles! and you have a handy velcro tape dispenser!


• buy the industrial sticky back tape NOT the kind used for fabric applications. The industrial type is made with heavy duty adhesive and can hold up heavy items like a hammer. The hook and loop tapes made for fabric cannot do this.

Home storage ideas for using velcro tape:

In the photos you will see that tape has been run horizontally along the wall (the hook side) and then the loop side of the tape is used to secure the items to the wall. Whenever you need the item just unhook the tape, take what you need, and refasten again!

Have you even had the experience of knocking over a florescent light bulb and having it explode on the floor? What a mess! These types of items are difficult to store because if they are stored vertically you run the risk of having them fall over making a mess or even injuring somebody.
The person who invented velcro never thought it would be used for this! This is the perfect way to keep those table leaves from falling over on your foot! In this application the sticky back tape (hook side) was applied to the wall but the loop side used to secure the table leaves is not the sticky back type.
You can even keep track of your remote control by fastening it right to the side of the TV!
My favourite solution of all was securing this clothes drying rack to the back of the closet door. The rack is a floor model and only used on laundry day to dry fine washables that do not go in the dryer. It had to be stored somewhere when it was not in use so the back of the closet door was great place to hang it. The only problem was that every time the door was opened or closed it would bang around. Velcro tape to the rescue in this organized home again!

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