The Great Garage Clean Out

Or an alternate title..."how to not be a hoarder." Which by the looks of things we are...um, errr..were..are trying to not be!

I don't have any before pics to share because it was bad. Oh so bad!

4th of July weekend, I decided to take advantage of the cool, rainy weather-combined with the fact the hubbs was gone for the day to attack the hoard pile. Here is the de-crappifying in progress. My kid came to help, otherwise I may not have survived.

We sorted into to trash (I ran out of garbage cans), stuff for the scrapper to pick up, a small section of donate and and a small section of keep.  The trash portion took 4 weeks to dispose of all the stuff completely. I am STILL waiting on the scrapper to stop by. And every week I have taken a small donation to Goodwill on my way to the grocery, so it was manageable for me.

Unbeknownst to the hubbs, I plan on completely reorganizing the garage. Where to go for inspiration? Why, PINTEREST of course!

Compact, swing out storage for plywood and drywall.

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Overhead lattice to store pvc pipe, copper pipe, or any lightweight length of building materials

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Organized storage for all the cordless drills, batteries and chargers

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Organize his fishing poles from this

to this

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You would think the hoarding issue would have been the main reason I was motivated to clean the garage. Sadly, no. The real reason was this small jail cell looking space (assuming this is what jail cell's look like). The hubbs uttered the words, "well if you clean it out you can have it", in response to my idea for the space. Haha-- the fool. He didn't think I would clean it out. He was wrong!

This is the secret new project! Perhaps not a complete secret. It still needs a lot of work before I can reveal what purpose this room will serve.  The rest of the stuff needs moved.  Some electrical needs moved. We need to frame and add insulation, drywall, etc...

Here is a mock up for the garage reorganization. When this is completed we will actually be able to use the garage for it's intended purpose  and park a car in the garage bay.

I have to say it feels good to have a project. Well, a project to divert my attention from all the other projects I don't want to do, haha. And it feels good to get rid of so much unnecessary stuff.  We will have more funds this month, because we recently refinanced the house and did some debt consolidation.  Hopefully ALL of the outstanding projects will soon be addressed since our money woes are now a thing of the past. Life is very good my friends. 

Anyone else have super secret project or de-crappify their house?

The one where I give myself a concussion

I have said it before and I will say it again. I am a walking, talking disaster. How I have managed to not kill or at the very least maim myself I will  never know. Although I came pretty close this time. While in the garage cleaning I managed to kabong myself on the head with an iron plant holder.

This is the offending weapon

The re-enactment

I think I actually dented my head. OMG it hurts! My hubbs said "look--you bent the stake on your plant holder. See-you do have a hard head."  He is such an asshat! And I am pretty sure the stake was already bent on it. I think so...maybe...

The good news is this side of the garage went from this

To this

At least some progress was made before I caused irreparable brain damage to myself. When I can actually chew and raise my eyebrows without my head hurting, then I will resume work on the garage . Until then I am sitting in my recliner with an ice pack on my head and double vision. And no I am not listening to Foreigner. I really have wonked out vision. I hate being short. And clumsy. And having a bruisy goose egged noggin.

In my next life I want to be tall. And not clumsy.  (And while I am at it-- thin, rich and gorgeous isn't to much to ask for, right?)