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Is your garage full of junk?

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Is your garage full of junk?

  • yes, junked up

  • no, at least space for 1 car and we park in there

  • no, at least space for 1 car but it's a workspace

  • no garage

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Small garage, and we still fit 2 cars.

But yes, there is a boat load of shit in there, mostly in the rafters. 😀

An earthquake will destroy my babies. 🙁
 
This thread is worthless without pics! Mine is a disaster right now, I want to clean it up sometime though. I normally don't have it this messy, it just kinda got out of hand.







This garage is too small for a car to comfortably fit or be worked on so I don't bother. I want to eventually insulate/seal it, bring more power, and make it a nice climate controlled work area. I already added 3 T8 fixtures a few years back, used to have a single 150w bulb and that's it. I've even had thoughts of eliminating the garage door so I can have a proper insulated/sealed wall. I'd probably put a window or something. The garage door is handy for taking out the lawnmower and stuff though, but I could always build a small shed for that stuff. Converting a garage into a room is probably involved from a political point of view though, could maybe affect taxes and stuff like that, so probably wont actually do that.

Either way, I do want to redo the floor, walls, ceiling and fix it up so I can use it more. It's either too cold or too hot to work in there. I'd make it nicely insulated and put heat and AC.
 
mine isn't full of junk, but i have other stuff in there. i have a little inflatable boat i keep in there. i also have an arcade game, my lawn mower, and a bunch of tools. but when i change my oil i pull into the garage and do it there. but my garage is hardly big enough for 1 car.
 
We use our two car garage. However, most everyone I know's garage is filled to the brim with bull shit. I hate having that much shit on hand... I usually can't wait for spring cleaning to roll around. Hell I'm getting excited just thinking about throwing some old shit away.
 
No garage 🙁

I have a pretty good size storage area in my utility room in the basement (around 250 or so sq feet) and a 70ish sq foot shed in the back yard, both filled with junk...

Also spare bedroom at 130ish sq feet has lots of junk ...
 
Dirigible said:
This. Band saw. Drill press. Etc.

Why the fuck would anyone put a car in a garage? Seems retarded. Hell. I don't think I could even get a car back there. Garage is at the back of the lot and the "driveway" is awfully narrow as it goes past the house.

In my town I see Rolls and Porsches and whatever the fuck else cars people own parked on the street. No one parks in the garage.
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all depends on the layout of the house... if I had an attached garage, I'd almost definitely park the car in there. if the garage was in the far back of the lot and there wasn't space for a separate shed, I'd rather use it to store tools, bikes, etc.

a random kid walking down the street is far more likely to run off with a freestanding bike in the middle of my backyard rather than breaking into my car to steal it.
 
3.5 car garage with 2 cars and some random stuff in there. HOA doesnt allow street or driveway parking so the subdivison tends to have large garages.
 
That's a pet peeve of mine. Nothing makes a house look like crap more than having an attached garaged that is so full of junk you have to park in the driveway. Most of the time all that stuff is just boxes and broken items that should be thrown away anyway.

I can fit two cars, a lawn tractor, and all of our yardstuff, plus I have a work bench and a tool cabinet in mine 🙂
 
DrPizza said:
We must have 40 partial gallons of paint.
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Mine are stashed in the basement under the stairs. What's really cool is when the bottom of one of the cans rots and the paint starts leaking out. I actually got lucky. Picked up the can and it had just barely started leaking.

The stuff can be difficult to get rid of responsibly. Latex is not too much trouble but oil - nobody wants that shit. I can't even find a place to dispose of four measly AA lithium batteries.

2 1/2 car garage with two cars in it along with workbenches, cabinets, an 80 gal compressor and lots of room to move around.
 
I have a huge garage I could probably fit 4 smaller cars in there. It's all clean but a couple things. Eventually I'll be putting all my tools and yard stuff in there. But will still be able to fit 2 normal cars or trucks in there.

Driving around sometimes it's amazing to see garages packed full to the ceiling with junk. barely anyone has a garage they can actually park in anymore. It's ridiculous they have so much crap. I bet they use any of it either.
 
I can't speak for myself but my parents' garage sure is packed with crap. So's their basement. My dad has hoarding tendencies. Worse is he puts everything into plastic totes, which just become black holes for that one thing you do need.
 
My wife has shit all over the place. I swear she's borderline hoarder status. Lately she's done a good job of actually throwing some stuff away. Can't wait till we hit the garage and get rid of some of that stuff.
 
thestrangebrew1 said:
My wife has shit all over the place. I swear she's borderline hoarder status. Lately she's done a good job of actually throwing some stuff away. Can't wait till we hit the garage and get rid of some of that stuff.
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With my wife it's closets. It's almost to the point of being afraid to open the door because something might fall on you. We've been married for 20 years and she has come my way a lot more than I have her way. I was a clean and tidy, organized neat freak. She likes to pile stuff up on the counter. We've found common ground and I've learned to ignore a lot of stuff. If somebody is coming over, we can clear out the clutter in about five minutes so it's not bad at all. We are contemplating a move out of state hopefully in the next five years or so and we are both onboard with packing up both cars with personal items and hitting the road. We'll have an "estate sale" and what's left will either be thrown out or stay with the house if the buyers want it.
 
Nope, we park both cars comfortably inside.
When we bought the house we had 3 cars which was a pain with a 2 car garage. Sold one car and have very little in the garage. I've installed wall mounted shelving to keep stuff off the floor which gives it a neat appearance.
 
For those that park the car in the garage all the time do you find it rusts faster? I've been told that even with an unheated garage the residual heat from the engine will warm it up enough for the salt to activate and start to eat through faster than if you leave it outside. It kind of makes sense.
 
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