Changes are happening constantly and working in 2021 from home has not been the best experience. It has meant long hours at home with kids in the background. All the Zoom calls and now I feel like I am never away from work. That is why since I am always at work I Need to have all the work accessories at home. Yes, it is 2021 and the COVID-19 pandemic is still going on. What a joke right. 99.7%+ of people end up just fine and those stats are better than almost any virus or flu that is out there. But the reality is that that was not the biggest change for my family. Our change came from the locational change of moving from an apartment to a home for the first time. My wife and I found a home in the nicest neighborhood in our city and found out that since it needed lots of work that we could actually afford it. We knew that we would have to do tons of work to this home and that it would take hundreds of hours of work on our part to make it liveable. But what we discovered was that there are many items that people would consider to be packaging supplies that they actually need on their list and in their home otherwise you end up having issues working well.
I realized right off the bat that I needed tape. Lots of tape and all the kinds to get my work schedule and papers together. The ability to have tape on hand is even more important for living in a home than versus an apartment. It went way beyond just work though and to keep our home together we used tape all the time. That is because there are too many needs for different types of tape that can instantly happen. These tapes are lifesavers and really time savers. When it is also illegal to leave your home for non-emergency items it is also important to have lots of these items on hand. Don't get caught without it.
We all know the most important one and that is Duct Tape. World War II gave us this and it was made to waterproof ammo cans. What people found was that it had a multitude of other uses and was amazing at sealing almost anything up. Around the house, we have used it in emergencies to fix leaks and to hold items together to keep thousands of dollars of things from crashing down. It is also a great way to seal up boxes and basically patch almost anything. I have taped paintbrushes to poles in order to get to high places because we had broken our extendable paintbrush pole. We used it for everything and it was worth it.
Having boxes around the house has also been a lifesaver. You never know when you will need to store items. Or even keep items from damaging others and cutting up boxes and using them as flooring covers or simply padding has been a huge help in our home. We stored the majority of our garage items in boxes and created a whole system for the organization. Using not just cheap boxes but going to an online packaging supplies store to get top-notch boxes was a good call.
