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It really isn't that hard to keep a shop or work space clean if when the job your doing is complete just clean up after yourself right away. This is how I keep up to my messes when doing something in the shop and has always worked out just don't leave the miss for the next day or so because than it will not get done. Before you know it you've done a bunch of projects and the miss keeps getting bigger and bigger.
Good luck with the clean up and remember how hard and the time it took to clean it up after your next project is done. !!!
I'm usually pretty good about not letting things slide out of control but, a couple years ago, I went back to work (office job) full time. I was also keeping-up with the odd-jobs and over-flow work from the local marina. I'm not planning to let this happen again. Also, my son moved back for a while and his apartment furnishings were stored in my garage last winter -and that put the nail in the coffin. Every last bit of walking space I had was occupied with his boxes. The real issue is that I was doing a lot in too small of a space without enough shelves and proper storage cabinets/drawers.
Here are some pics as of early yesterday morning. I spent 8 hours later on organizing even more, throwing-out even more and building some divider/shelves that will go in the table island shelf unit. You can see between the lathe and mill where one of the new toolboxes will go. I'm planning to do more cleanup on all the shelves and also get proper small compartment cabinets for all the fasteners and small parts.