how and where do you store sporting equipment

[Anonymous]

I've got 2 boys and it seems like we have a ton of sport stuff - lots of balls (basketballs, soccer balls etc.), tennis rackets, baseball gloves, etc.. Does anyone have any creative storage ideas for this stuff that is still accessible for kids to grab when they want to play with it? The balls especially take up so much room.... Do you keep it in the garage/ basement/ playroom?

thanks!

[Anonymous]

We have an all-weather storage bench that is on our deck and holds a wide assortment of things. (Bats, balls, skates, rackets...)
In season sports equipment pretty much never gets put away because it's in use so often. So we finally bit the bullet and designated a corner of our entry way to hold it. Right now, there's a soccer ball and a basketball there, along with 2 sets of cleats and bike helmets. We have a coat rack that we can hang bags on. While bookbags almost never make it to the coat rack, swim bags do. Once school sports start, the kids have bags with their gear in them that live in that entry way corner. It's not pretty, but it works. Making them keep their gear in a bag helped keep it from spilling across the entry way, potentially allows the bag to be hung up on the coat rack, and makes sure the last minute phone calls from school about forgotten cleats almost never happen.

The bane of my existence is lacrosse gear. It is everywhere. The sticks, the helmets. If I ever have this to do again, I'm encouraging my kids to stick with sports that don't have a ton of gear, like soccer.

[Anonymous]

We have this the Sports Gear Storage Station from Rubbermaid

I purchased it on amazon for around $35

It is in the basement at the base o the stairs. There s a net on the bottom to hold balls, helmets, skateboard, lacrosse sticks, baseball gloves etc

[Anonymous]

Balls, bats, nerf, light sabers, etc stay in an old toybox in the garage (mostly). Anything that they use to pay with stays outside.

Equipment in season (baseball bags, soccer balls, etc) stay in the back of my SUV during season and are hung on a hook in the garage off season.

Cleats and shin guards go in a basket in the hall closet.