[Billfred]

When I was on 1293, we had the Small Closet Method of Area Maintenance. In essence, you get a small closet that belongs to the team, and a larger work space that doesn't. In this way, everything has to fit back in the closet at the end of each meeting. It tends to keep things tidy and accessible during meetings.

As for making sure that tools are put back in their proper space, I remember a trick from assisting the theater counselors at camp: take a sharpie and a piece of paper (or maybe something more durable) and trace around each item that belongs on that paper. If you see an outline, that means a prop (or, in our case, tool) is missing (or sometimes, in their case, on stage).