The Impact of Years of Disorganization on a Pegboard

Because much of what I owned in the way of tools was in a state of chaos for many years it was often simpler to purchase a new tool than find the one I knew I had somewhere at the bottom of a random stack.  For the past year I have been attacking the chaos that resulted from a lack of order.  My immediate living areas, the living room, the bedroom/studio, the kitchen, were the first places I applied my resolve to maintain order.  At least on the surface, with the doors and drawers closed they all began to look much better and be more functional.  There were still some major areas remaining but step by step I pushed back the barriers of chaos.  My yard and my work room, an area off my bedroom that held the status of a covered, elevated deck when I moved in, were the final frontiers.  The front yard had the help of my crew of grandchildren who weed and mow and water.  The backyard more resembled a battle field, especially as I began to build a chicken run and coop.  My workroom continued to be a sink of chaos with a nasty semi-shag rug that caught and retained every speck of sawdust generated by my several motorized saws.  Then I returned from a lovely cruise to Alaska, a gift from my daughter Nancy and she made the relatively simple request that instead of a stained glass creation I give her something made of fused glass.  For the past two months I have labored to bring order to the work room as a setting for the fusing kiln I purchased in order to fulfill Nancy's request.  Sheet vinyl was laid over the rug once it had been thoroughly vacuumed.  The thousands of screws and pieces of hardware were sorted and stored in various bins.  I sorted through the odd pieces of lumber I have saved from various projects and converted a maple desk I got for 15 dollars at DI into drawers for bits of useful wood.  This past few days I have been re-positioning the peg board panel over my work bench and installing a long shelf to hold collections of various bits that fit my drill and router such as Forstner bits, hole-drilling bits, router bits, hex based drill bits, etc.  The first try with the shelf collapsed but I added a chain for support and a lot of silicone to hold the screws.  The pegboard is so laden with assorted tools that I must add reinforcement to the interface between the plastic pegboard and the strips of wood that support it 3/4" from the brick wall.  The piles of random parts are diminishing.  I have added a nightly sweep of the work room floor to my evening cleanup ritual.