Getting the heavy bins off the floor is priority number one. Manual pulley systems are cheap online if you want a quick fix for lighter stuff.

Tell me about it, @kevin_flores. It's like a law of the universe that the boring prep work takes forever. I see this everywhere, like when you spend an hour looking for a screwdriver for a five minute fix. Why does the setup always eat up the time?

I swapped to simple pine cones last year after @jessicapatel's advice and my family loved it.