Goalie Gear Storage - What do you do?

Originally Posted by Werknone

Do you wash that stuff after every use?
Dont you need a place to hang it?

Most of the time yes, I hate being stinky. Once it's washed it goes back in the bag, which you see on the floor.

I wash after every 3 or 4 ice times. I dry my underlayers in the machine ever time. Gear gets laid out on the deck or hung in the bathroom with a space heater every time.
I also hate being stinky, so I spray everything down with pet stain and odor eliminator. Works very well.

Then, it all goes back in the bag and back i the jeep. I'm on the ice every Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday. No point in keeping it somewhere else.

Originally Posted by synesthete

Are you at all worried about bugs? My garage has spiders, ants, other assorted small creatures. I won't even leave my bag in my garage all zipped up.

I think my stuff is too stinky for bugs to enter. Though sometimes I get the odd earwig crawling out of my bag before games, but I slam all my stuff around pretty good in the locker room before games, pull everything out of my bag as one last check before game time.

Bugs eat poop. There's no such thing as too stinky for bugs.

Originally Posted by RJattack19

yo ill try and get a pic tomorrow, but i bought a grip of hooks at home depot that screw into the wall i hang all my gear on them.

Any pics? Looking to do this in my garage ASAP and would love to compile more ideas.

Mine :

Equipment drying rack for dummies! - Page 2 - Goalie Store Bulletin Board

I was going to do womething like this in my house before I moved to my condo.... you can even drill holes into it and attach a dryer to it to speed up the drying process...

Now that I'm in a condo, I put my gear in my SUMO bag, then in my locker (I feel bad for my neighbours that have the lockers next to mine... ) but the SUMO does a very good job of venting, and the stuff is well dried before I play each week...

Sticks are just stuck in my locker as well, and then the jersey, and undergarments get washed each week, and just brought up and down to the car when I play.

The SUMO bag really is awesome...

Originally Posted by synesthete

Are you at all worried about bugs? My garage has spiders, ants, other assorted small creatures. I won't even leave my bag in my garage all zipped up.

I don't anymore, we finished our garage and turned it into a rec room/sports stuff storage.

But until a couple of years ago, I left my stuff in our unfinished space, which had numerous critters. I was playing in the summer once when I felt a pinch on the back of my thigh, near my knee. I had just got my pads, and had been fiddling around with the straps, so I figured I just had something too tight.

I was changing after the game, when one of the other women went "What is that?!" and pointed at my leg. There was a huge welt developing.

It itched like a mofo for a week. I never did figure out what it was that bit me. It was probably in my pants, whatever it was. Ouch. I made sure to shake everything out before I put it on after that.