Attempt to clean up and organize the garage a bit past weekend

[BHopkins]

What is amazing to me, @GON, is that you have moved that collection of "stuff" from one part of the country to another, so many times, without de-junking.

Of course there are a couple assumptions there on my part. First, that the collection of stuff has remained somewhat constant in size, from one place to another. And that you haven't de-junked. Perhaps you have, and this is what remains.

So, will you be de-junking before your upcoming last move? Or after you get there? Or never?

 

[Wireman1987]

After 15 days, grandsons went back home to Colorado. Finished a lengthy wife todo list. So time to try and organize the garage.

Way to much stuff. Have a horder mentality I suspect with some tools and car parts.

Decided mount boards to the garage, and attach shelf's and the like to the boards, rather than the drywall. Since garage is painted, decided to paint the mounting boards.

Found lots of stuff I forgot I had. Like a brand new never out of the shipping high end brake bleeding system. Kit to remove electronic push pins, I could go on and on.

Speaks volumes if the challenges of having a horder mentality when it comes to tools, being away from that garage for months and getting older and memory loss than comes with age.

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making progress. i see there's at least one member on here that has more stuff crammed into their garage than i do.

 

[JunkdrawerDog]

My wife and I have personality differences also. Makes life interesting. Married 48 years.

Same here. Married 43 years. Opposites do attract.

 

[JohnnyG]

Yeah same here. Japanese. I have house "shoes" and outside shoes. These kind of these are reasonable.

Do you know how that custom began?
I lived in Japan for 14 months in the 70's and I can tell you.

 

[nomas]

I really feel for some of you guys ... Eh , it's your own fault .

 

[JohnnyG]

I cleanedmy workbench the other day. Then the 40 gal. garbage can filled up. Done.

 

[Pablo]

Do you know how that custom began?
I lived in Japan for 14 months in the 70's and I can tell you.

It began around 1000AD in the upper classes in Japan, for cleanliness and respect.

What did they tell you?

 

[mr_boring]

Are you recommending I move the cordless batteries and their chargers into the kitchen?

My Wife runs the house and wants to run the garage. I am not allowed to place anything in the house. If I do place anything in the house, it will disappear and never be seen again. Wife recently told a friend she is so unhappy about the garage she wants to make sure our next home has an outbuilding.... so she doesn't have to see my "stuff".

It's ok GON - my ex MIL treated her husband the same way. He was much happier after he moved into the shed with his stuff. She was ecstatic. It helped that the shed was also about 6 or 10 miles from the house up in the National Forest.

 

[GON]

@GON, there does seem to be some difference in organizing techniques. Would your territory look different if your work situation was different? Could you stash the bikes and bed in one of your trailers?

The issue with stashing bikes and the bed is you need to have buddies to help. When you move every two +/- years, you don't have local friends. And often lose most of your childhood friends.

Does your wife entertain friends in the laundry room?

Every house we ever rented, when a landlord came to visit the response was always the same. We keep the rented house nicer (significantly) than the landlord's personal residence. Without a doubt one can stop by our home anytime and the home will be perfect in the interior. Not a dish in the sink, no dirt anywhere, ect.

Can't say the same for my garage. Friends from church live in the mountains. They couldn't make it home last winter due to a snow storm. They stayed the night at our home (I was in the Philippines). Wife made the guests stay in their car until she went through the garage and opened the front door- she is so embarrassed about the garage.

 

[GON]

Those pictures of @GON 's garage look very familiar. I had an out building. Once we downsided what I did not throw out or give away had to fit in the garage

I have found buying the same exact shelfs for a garage allow a garage to fit a lot more stuff. Random shelfs don't often maximize space.

 

[GON]

God bless ya! Try a Dominican!! You definitely have to pick and choose the battle or die on the hill! First time she came to my house we walked in the front door, and she stayed at the front door with a side eye...."Why are you walking into the house with your shoes on?" I said I have 3 kids (12, 15, 17 at the time) and two big dogs. Do you think taking off shoes matters?

Um, even the dogs take their shoes off now!!

Funny, the history of taking shoes off before coming in the home is rumored to have started many years ago.

Rumor/ legend has it that fecal matter and the like get on the bottom of shoes. By taking shoes off, one prevents fecal matter and the like from being spread on the interior floors of a home.

 

[GON]

It's ok GON - my ex MIL treated her husband the same way. He was much happier after he moved into the shed with his stuff. She was ecstatic. It helped that the shed was also about 6 or 10 miles from the house up in the National Forest.

My late Dad past away single. One of his late in life observations was it was better to die partnered, than die single.

Of note, I am a second generation raised by a male only. My Dad was raised by his Dad, I was by my Dad. My wife the psychotherapist points to be a second generation male with no female in the home as being why I am the way I am, and that had I been raised with a woman in the house I would be a different spouse/ person.

 

[GON]

I've never warmed up to "indoor" and "outdoor" shoes. I have them but... if I am in the garage and need the facilities, I have to walk through the house. So change my shoes twice? If I'm doing yard work it starts to make more sense, but now I'm trying to buy easy on/off shoes for indoor/outdoor shoes, and reserve anything with laces for when I'm not home.

Wife helped me build my home office. She says the best part of it is the door--that she can close and not see inside. I totally understand picking and choosing what battles to engage in, but short of having an heated/cooled outbuilding--which would be really cool, but expensive!--no way am I giving up my home office. With WFH it is literally how I pay for the place...

I think your office needs a desk to sit at. It'll at least be another horizontal surface to place stuff.

If my Wife is in the shower, and I sneak in from the garage to get a cup of coffee and leave my shoes on, my wife will know and will correct me from the shower.

Beats me..... but accurate....

 

[GON]

I really feel for some of you guys ... Eh , it's your own fault .

I am happily married....... nobody said marriage was all peaches and cream....... I am more happily married than my wife I suspect......

 

[GON]

What is amazing to me, @GON, is that you have moved that collection of "stuff" from one part of the country to another, so many times, without de-junking.

Of course there are a couple assumptions there on my part. First, that the collection of stuff has remained somewhat constant in size, from one place to another. And that you haven't de-junked. Perhaps you have, and this is what remains.

So, will you be de-junking before your upcoming last move? Or after you get there? Or never?

The key to moving, which I have posted on BITOG is "never ever accept a free, or used box when moving".

When moving, all boxes must be new, the same size, and heavy duty. One can pack much more items with the new box only method.

I am not good at much, except packing a lot of items into a handful of trucks and trailers.

 

[Pablo]

My late Dad past away single. One of his late in life observations was it was better to die partnered, than die single.

Of note, I am a second generation raised by a male only. My Dad was raised by his Dad, I was by my Dad. My wife the psychotherapist points to be a second generation male with no female in the home as being why I am the way I am, and that had I been raised with a woman in the house I would be a different spouse/ person.

Well yeah maybe, but so. Does not give her special rights of domination.

 

[drtyler]

These pictures always remind me that having three extra 5 quart jugs on the shelf is not hoarding.

Thread 'Pictures of a oil hoarder??? moving his stash across country'

Jun 19, 2021

Moving my stash across country. Attached are pictures of the move. I was able to load about 70 percent. The other 30 percent will go on the trailer in small, individual boxes.

Three layers, using a waterproof box 48x40 by I don't know how tall. The key to all of this was making a cardboard floor between layers. I may have some Pentosin leeching, the oil was bottled in Germany... not sure where the containers were made.

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After 15 days, grandsons went back home to Colorado. Finished a lengthy wife todo list. So time to try and organize the garage.

Way to much stuff. Have a horder mentality I suspect with some tools and car parts.

Decided mount boards to the garage, and attach shelf's and the like to the boards, rather than the drywall. Since garage is painted, decided to paint the mounting boards.

Found lots of stuff I forgot I had. Like a brand new never out of the shipping high end brake bleeding system. Kit to remove electronic push pins, I could go on and on.

Speaks volumes if the challenges of having a horder mentality when it comes to tools, being away from that garage for months and getting older and memory loss than comes with age.

 

[Wireman1987]

Guilty as well my weekend project was bench clearing

 

[Donald]

My wife seems content as long as there is a 3' wide pathway through the garage.

 

[nomas]

We've been married for 45 years . I have no reason to fear my wife .. THREE guest bedrooms and NO office for you ? I could fix that .