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

[GON]

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.

 

[4WD]

Nice work so far …
Those cordless tool batteries are expensive - last longer indoors …
Reckon you see some pretty hot days there …

 

[GON]

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".

 

[4WD]

Well, I keep mine on a shelf above the washing machine …
No complaints - it’s a utility room …

 

[GON]

This is HER utility room. I am not even allowed to hang a jacket temporarily in the room. Or out dirty clothes in the woven basket.

Wife runs a very tight ship in the home. Very tight.

 

[Pablo]

Wait. You buy a house. Two of you. And you don't have an office? You need a new house.

 

[GON]

Wife has a office and three guest bedrooms. All picture perfect. She won't ever allow me to have an office, bring my clutter into the house.

Actually, I do have a office in the garage. I am in at the office right now. This is a live picture of my office just taken.

 

[Pablo]

I'm just joking about my wife being the boss. Dude. Man up.

One guest bedroom is now your office.

Just man up and do it. What the heck will she do? Squawk like a hen, that's it.

 

[GON]

You have no idea, I will lose that battle. When one is married to a psychotherapist, you quickly learn what battles you will lose, so you just accept it.

I sometimes ponder what it is like to be you..play pickleball in the afternoon with younger woman. Then return home from afternoon pickleball be greeted at the door by your wife with a robe, slippers, a Martini, a cigar, and appetizers.... Not all of us live the @Pablo life.

 

[Pablo]

There is no battle. Take the territory. Period.

 

[GON]

I follow the Sun Tzo teachings on war, not the Hamas doctrine.

 

[doitmyself]

This is HER utility room. I am not even allowed to hang a jacket temporarily in the room. Or out dirty clothes in the woven basket.

Wife runs a very tight ship in the home. Very tight.

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

 

[JohnnyG]

Amazon is an enabler of this behavior!
I'm just as guilty, but you are a much better packer.

 

[AZjeff]

be greeted at the door by your wife with a robe, slippers, a Martini, a cigar, and appetizers.... Not all of us live the @Pablo life.

You've got it wrong. I'm betting it's chilled Gran Patron Platinum tequila.

@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?

Does your wife entertain friends in the laundry room?

 

[Pablo]

You have no idea, I will lose that battle. When one is married to a psychotherapist, you quickly learn what battles you will lose, so you just accept it.

I sometimes ponder what it is like to be you..play pickleball in the afternoon with younger woman. Then return home from afternoon pickleball be greeted at the door by your wife with a robe, slippers, a Martini, a cigar, and appetizers.... Not all of us live the @Pablo life.

Not even, I may not even wish. We have our battles, but territory is something we agreed on probably before we married 40+ years ago.

When we house shop now, hardly even need to say much. Kitchen is shared. I need a shop. She needs a craft room/office. I need an office. Living, bonus, dining, bathrooms - hers. Laundry room shared, keep it tidy.

My wife is friggen feisty. So it's not like you describe. I do play PB once a week, come home, she's not here - we are retired and enjoy life. My point is - we/you two are separate humans, and as much as we may agree or disagree - everyone needs physical space, and that space should have been agreed upon long ago. Have a SERIOUS conversation with your wife. A conversation is not one way. You just need to make it clear, just because the remainder of your career you are away, but now or soon as a retired person, the house is not all hers to do as she pleases.

 

[Egg_Head]

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

 

[loneryder]

Wife has a office and three guest bedrooms. All picture perfect. She won't ever allow me to have an office, bring my clutter into the house.

Actually, I do have a office in the garage. I am in at the office right now. This is a live picture of my office just taken.
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That looks like the back of an Advance Auto store where I dump my used oil. You don't even have a real chair!

 

[BISCUT]

You have no idea, I will lose that thh . When one is married to a psychotherapist, you quickly learn what battles you will lose, so you just accept it.

I sometimes ponder what it is like to be you..play pickleball in the afternoon with younger woman. Then return home from afternoon pickleball be greeted at the door by your wife with a robe, slippers, a Martini, a cigar, and appetizers.... Not all of us live the @Pablo life.

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!!

 

[Pablo]

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

 

[supton]

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.