<p class="ingestion featured-caption">A garage can certainly be used for extra storage, but a littler decluttering wouldn't hurt. Nalidsa/Shutterstock</p><ul class="summary-list"><li>Business Insider spoke to two professional declutterers about <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tips-to-declutter-your-garage-take-inventory-leave-time-2024-7">clearing out space in your garage</a>.</li><li>Old paint, excess building material, and random tools can probably be tossed.</li></ul><p>A garage can be a godsend if you <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/best-and-worst-ways-to-use-extra-space-in-home-2021-9">need extra storage in your house</a>. But it can also quickly become one massive junk drawer.</p><p>Before summer races all the way by, now is the perfect time to stop and take stock of the piles, shelves, and boxes.</p><p>Business Insider spoke to two <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-reduce-how-stuff-much-you-own-professional-declutterer-2023-4">professional declutterers</a> about easy things you can toss from your garage immediately.</p><p>Here's what the experts said.</p>