clean out the garage

Time for a clean sweep! Half of my garage is piled high with junk and the other half is where I squeeze my car in.

My garage is HUGE. Its 2 cars wide and more than 2 cars deep. The front half is full of stuff to get rid of. The back half is well organized, but I don’t know much about its contents. They belonged to my late husband. I don’t know anything about tools beyond the basics. He was a mechanic for more than 25 years.

I need to find someone who knows what these items are and how to price them to sell on e-bay or craigslist.

new building in in and we got out of the storage unit. porsche is gone. need to build a new workbench. installed 3 out of 4 new shop lights. will need to move the beetle over to get to the 4th one.

I have my wood set aside for winter, car maintenance supplies in order- sports equipment, coolers, books, holiday items on the shelves in the closet. The rest of the few items left are displayed along the walls. It’s great being able to walk around freely in there without worry that a mouse could jump out at me from under such a mess. And, I can even park my car in there now. Ahhhh.

I have to fix some speaker cabinets that are worth, I think, too much to just throw away. They take up most of the log jam in the middle. That will take maybe 4 hours total. I also have about 40 violin cases my day job was discarding and I didn’t want to see them go into a landfill. Most are in very good shape. I haven’t been able to find anyone to take all of them, and though I don’t care to make a profit on them, they don’t sell well on ebay and I pretty much waste money listing them. So, the things left in the garage are the ones hardest to find homes for. There are a few boxes of stuff my parents insisted on my taking home from their house…they can be re-located to the attic. Thought that it would really help to have someone do this with me, and just say THROW THAT AWAY! Haven’t thought of who, yet. I’ll buy the beer.

We almost had the whole thign cleared out, then we had a death in the family, which set us back. I think a few more months and we’ll have it done

for the week of the 22nd of June. Just need to clean out some stuff and sweep it up

I’d say I’m almost halfway done. Getting a new car motivated me to clear some space.

I really thought I’d never get this done. Too big a hassle taking the car out then putting it back in when I’d finished for the day. Too awkward getting to things at the back. Too difficult to do in small doses because the only way to clear out the wardrobe was to pull everything out to sort it. Blah blah blah. Well the reality is that once I got into it I really got into it, and God help me I even enjoyed sorting out the crap – it was a real trip down memory lane lol! And I’m happy I sucked up my excuses and just bloody did it, cause now it’s done!

wow what was I thinking with all the crap I’ve kept? Oh well it’s getting sorted and tossed out now!