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My 24'x 22' single stall garage is partitioned into three separate areas. I have dozens of electrical outlets and 240 Volt plug ins for a Dryer and an Air conditioner. I have a full size bed, TV and Computer with WiFi in one section and the other half of the garage is partitioned as a metal working area plus woodworking. When I find out IF my homeowners insurance will cover having a small Blacksmith's Forge on my driveway I will be adding that. When I want to sleep in the garage during chilly weather I do my laundry in the house and dry it in the dryer in the garage. The electric clothes dryer is vented into the garage and that provides enough heat to say toasty warm even when temps get down to the twenties. Low humidity in the Nebraska winters keep any moisture issues with my tools from being a problem. I have an older pickup that I leave outside. The only BAD thing about this setup is I haven't found a Women that doesn't think I am nuts for sleeping in the garage. I would make an exception for the "right" lady though.
I couldn't park my car in the garage even if it were completely clear of stuff. I can get the Mazda 3 into the garage, but can't open the car door to get out. The garage is only as wide as the standard size garage door.
We have our car in our garage. Well, one anyway. My husband has a big truck. We can and do put it in the garage if there's severe weather forecast, but it's very crowded like that so I don't like it.
We have a small fridge in there, a standing tool box, and a work bench area - there's a recessed area made specifically for that reason in the garage. We also have a small closet that has some shelves in it out there. We have our yard tools hung up on the garage walls.
Overall, we keep it very neat and I park in there with plenty of room to spare.
I couldn't park my car in the garage even if it were completely clear of stuff. I can get the Mazda 3 into the garage, but can't open the car door to get out. The garage is only as wide as the standard size garage door.
My grandmother had this issue. She drove a big boat car, and even though her garage was free of clutter, she had a difficult time parking her car inside due to some idiot modifying the garage before she bought the house. This person eliminated the second car parking area and chopped up one side of the garage to make a weird tiny hallway leading to the kitchen. It made the whole garage rather useless. She could park the car on the other side of it if she was very careful (and she sideswiped her car on more than one occasion), but when she had a passenger such as myself, I was unable to open the passenger side door
When we bought our home I had one requirement. Transportation devices had to fit in the garage. Cars, motorcycles, bikes.
We had cabinets built into the garage where everything is stored. It is a thing of beauty.
So here it is five years later. Do we store stuff on the floor? Yes, our dog has his sleeping area in there. The floor has turned into a studio so my kids can practice TaiKwonDo. I hung a big screen in there. Next year we will be finishing the garage, putting in a nice floor, installing a ceiling. We want a finished look. It is still a car garage but one we want to place a classic car in or a Porsche. I have not decided yet. At this time we are working on the plans for the space.
We Millenials look at the homes of Boomers (and Gen X'ers) and think "holy smokes! I'm going to have to clean this out one day...and they'll probably charge me a fee at the dump"
You guys have accumulated sooo much stuff, it is oftentimes obscene. It's just stuff though, junk really. Get rid of it. Sell it if you can, but what you cannot sell (which is 98% of it) needs to be trashed or recycled.
Side note:
"Fitting" that you noticed an unused elliptical machine on Thanksgiving. I found that funny.
Interesting. Stuff that sits in bins or on shelves for years without being used (or even seen) isn't worth anything. It's certainly not worth what the owner paid for it, but many seem to have dreams of one day having a yard/garage sale or of getting a table at the flea market and all of a sudden it'll be sold for beaucoup cash.
Yeah, no problem. Just leave it to the kids and grandkids to dispose of.
And hey, since we've already been gifted the $18 Trillion national debt you guys racked up, what's a little junk in the garage, attic & basement to go along with it? Are we blessed or what?
Wow, bitter much? Sorry to inconvenience you with them living their own lives the way they want. Maybe you will luck out and their house will burn down, getting rid of the junk and providing free cremation services as well. Win / Win!
We have built in shelves on both sides of our garage - so we do have stuff stored in there, but we still park our two cars in there every night with no problems. We also have a deep freezer and spare fridge in there as well.
For the past few years I have wanted to clean the whole thing out and get rid of stuff, but my pack-rat husband doesn't want to get rid of any of it (even though we haven't looked at or used 80% of what's in there since we moved into the house ten years ago), so I guess I'll have to wait until I'm a widow...
Several people on our street use their garages as man caves, with sofas, tvs, pool tables, bars, recliners. During the summer they open up their garage doors and hang out there all weekend long.
We Millenials look at the homes of Boomers (and Gen X'ers) and think "holy smokes! I'm going to have to clean this out one day...and they'll probably charge me a fee at the dump"
You guys have accumulated sooo much stuff, it is oftentimes obscene. It's just stuff though, junk really. Get rid of it. Sell it if you can, but what you cannot sell (which is 98% of it) needs to be trashed or recycled.
Side note:
"Fitting" that you noticed an unused elliptical machine on Thanksgiving. I found that funny.
Interesting. Stuff that sits in bins or on shelves for years without being used (or even seen) isn't worth anything. It's certainly not worth what the owner paid for it, but many seem to have dreams of one day having a yard/garage sale or of getting a table at the flea market and all of a sudden it'll be sold for beaucoup cash.
Yeah, no problem. Just leave it to the kids and grandkids to dispose of.
And hey, since we've already been gifted the $18 Trillion national debt you guys racked up, what's a little junk in the garage, attic & basement to go along with it? Are we blessed or what?
Where do you think all that stuff in our basements came from? It's our parents' and grandparents' crap...oops, I mean heirlooms. You dread what we've accumulated? Do you have any idea what's hiding in the garages and attics of your generation's grandparents that has yet to be sorted and culled? I just had a reminder of what awaits my husband and me when we visited his (Silent Generation) parents' house for Thanksgiving. It's horrifying. Did I mention my husband is an only child? Additionally, my grandfather is still living independently. He's part of the much vaunted Greatest Generation. You don't even want me to start in about the amount of stuff that's accumulated in his basement. Fifty-year-old vacuum tubes, anyone? He's got drawers of them! Fortunately, my parents' belongings have been ruthlessly down-sized, because they just moved into a two-bedroom apartment, and I live too far away for it to have been convenient for them to pass anything down to me that doesn't fit in a suitcase. My siblings haven't been quite so lucky. So you can stop your yapping about the awfulness of Boomers and X-ers. We're also on the receiving end of an avalanche of family "treasures."
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