Unclutter Paint Cans

Paint cans in my garage tend to reproduce and grow. Pretty quickly after various projects there is a collection of 1 gallon paint cans taking up huge amounts of space. When my wife and I went to finish painting a room we discovered our less than half filled paint cans also thicken a little over time.

To put and end to this I purchased a few 1 quart cans from the paint store $1.88 a piece and poured the paint out of the gallon containers into these little guys. In the end I would up throwing away a very small amount of paint, But a very large amount of paint containers. The only gallon that was kept was primer. You only need a quart of paint for touch up and if you go to repaint trust me you want a fresh gallon of paint, otherwise you are going to paint half the room with old paint and then buy a new gallon and use half of it to finish painting the room leaving you with the exact same half empty gallon of paint.

Tip: Piant in its liquid form is a hazardouse waste, however as a solid it is safe to throw away. I combine all me left over paint into a single one gallon container, cap it and save it with the used lightbulbs for hazardouse waste disposal. The rest of the cans are left outside in the sunlight to dry, then they are simply tossed.