How Messy is your Garage?

[Jodi1980]

My mother lives downstairs in our house and if there is an empty space in the garage, she will put something there. She keeps boxes in case she needs to mail something in the future, there are rolls of toilet paper, books, etc., etc.

I would love a near empty garage!

Also, sometime in the future, I would like to paint our garage, should I go with a bright color?

Thanks.

 

[chager]

Mine is currently filled with all my grandma's things since she had to move in with my parents. We are slowly getting it all moved to my parents new house so we will have space again!

 

[MouseEars4us]

Hi Jodi!

Messy Garage here and it's a 2 car...

We're having an auction tomorrow and it's full of auction things, beds, couch, saddles, old glass, pictures...
we'll be so happy when tomorrow is over but then we'll have to fill it up again 'cause we're moving...long story...any way when we finally have a place to put all the stuff in the garage, I'll be painting it Beige...it's lime green now and just about blinds me everytime the doors go up!


P.S. I have a niece named Jodi, born in 1980... but last I knew her MIL didn't live downstairs

 

[EsmeraldaX]

I should take a picture of our garage...

We live in a 3 family house.

Two of the families; us and the second floor are good, normal people. The third family is.... Anyhoo, they are not allowed access to the garage so the landlord's son keeps some sort of "classic" automobile under a tarp in the third garage. He has not looked at it, or removed the tarp in, oh, about 8 years.

There is furniture waaaaaay in the back from the family that lived in the apartment we reside in now back in like 1987. No one has touched it because no one has claimed it. In fact, I think we are all a tad bit scared that it may be haunted or something. Too bad, it's nice stuff.

So our second floor neighbor used to run some sort of "computer business" out of the apartment. And he would get all sorts of stuff from work sent to him here. He has 100's of cardboard boxes. They now live on top of landlord's son's mystery car, which is also where the various lawn care tools that no one ever uses are sitting, gathering dust. Leaning up against the car is the weedwacker that no one ever uses.

On the second part of the garage is our second floor neighbors Porsche. It is his pride and joy and it's the most inconvinient car I have ever seen. Two seats. No trunk. Can't do it. Not me. Anyway, nothing gets within 10 feet of the Porsche. That is, except for the mountain of old computer parts and tools lining the back wall.

Now you get to our side. We keep the PT Cruiser here and for some reason there is a reclining chair and some parking cones. in front of it. But the kicker is…

Right in the corner, in front of the disassembled really nice table I have that doesn't fit anywhere in the apartment is a

GREAT BIG GIANT PLYWOOD FULL COLOR CUTOUT OF A MINOTAUR!!

Why you ask? (and why wouldn't you, really, because I mean, really WHO has a great big giant plywood full color cutout of a Minotaur in the garage)

It used to be the sign for my BF's old shop. I admit it's kind of neat. But a good friend of mine hates that her husband keeps saying he wants to get a tattoo of it every time he comes into our garage.

So beyond the minotaur, which is undoubtedly the "mascot" of our whole messy garage team, we also have lots of spare wood, and parts and 3 legged chairs that our insane landlord says are "antiques".

I can't wait to live in my own house. With my own garage.

I have a feeling the Minotaur will follow us always, though.
Go for a bright color. I think it sounds nice.



Just in case ya didn't belive me...

The view I get when I pull the Cruiser into the garage each day...

 

[sjh801]

Mine is full. But not with a car. I mistakenly thought when i bought my house that since I had one car I needed one garage. W-R-O-N-G!!! My car has never seen the inside. My friends with one car have two car garages. Wish I had known that before. Live and learn!

 

[KatelynnsAuntie]

Sheri, you crack me up!! You really must write a book.

I'd love to share a story about my garage 'cept I don't have one.


I had one for ten years and kept all kinds of junk in it. Then when I moved, I got a bigger place but no garage. My spare bedroom has become my "garage". I've been in my new place for 1 1/2 years and I'm still cleaning out my "garage".

 

[DemonLlama]

No garage: no mess! Our carport was put in by the original owners when they built, putting two more bedrooms where the garage would have been. I love the extra space, and that we can't clutter up the garage, like we did at our last house.

 

[cgcw]

Ours is used entirely for storage. All of my daycare toys are stored in just about every available space of our oversized 2 1/2 car garage. We have shelving all the way around and even down the middle of the garage (making it similar to the shape of a W).

We haven't had one of our cars in there in several years -- our new van wouldn't fit anyway, it's too tall.

 

[grinningghost]

No Minotaurs in our garage - but everything else is in there. It's terrible. DH has done a ton of work on our house this summer and it shows when you go in the garage. Wood, sawdust, tools, wrappers, all kinds of junk. You can't even walk through it really.

Someday we'll have a clean garage - but I don't see it happening anytime soon.

 

[mudnuri]

The back wall of my garage, is shelves, floor to ceiling- with a cut out for the big craftsman toolbox.

In front of that on the right side, is my bike- on the left is DH's bike, Behind that in the center, is our John Deere X575.

That's about it!

However, theres no room for any car!

Back when DH had his vette- that was in there. My Envoy wouldnt fit even with nothing else in there, it's really not a garage for a car.

We have a shed- now thats a different story, thats where the kids keep all their outdoor toys bikes, etc..

We decided if we ever wanted to put all of our stuff at our house, in a garge, it would have to be a 5 car....we have 4 4-wheelers, and 3 dirtbikes, that are kept at DMIL's because we dont have the room!

Brandy

 

[Serena]

It's not. There are shelves and shelves of highly organized autoparts, tools and other various objects. It is dwindling down though. We have bicycles, lawnmowers, a table and other stuff. But it's pretty organized.

 

[Mr.MouseFan]

If I had a garage, it would look like a tornado hit it...lol

 

[mrsgus06]

I think Jimmy Hoffa lives in my 2 car garage. Let's break it down for ya----5 kids ages 9 and under, new bikes for all at Xmas, old bikes still in the garage plus mine makes 11 bikes, 5 scooters, 2 electric scooters, 4 pogo sticks, 2 lawn mowers and if I look really hard I could find a partridge in a pear tree!!!! At least my house is clean!!!!

 

[The Mystery Machine]

I have organized, clean mess lol. Just had a garage sale and need to have alot of stuff hauled off.

 

[EsmeraldaX]

Originally posted by mrsgus06
I think Jimmy Hoffa lives in my 2 car garage.

You should have him come over and hang out with my giant sized mythological beast!

 

[roliepolieoliefan]

My DH keeps our garage meticulous. It would never be cluttered with stuff so our cars wouldn't fit. (His words) And he is true to his word. He has everything organized so the vehicles fit, his tools and such plus the tractor and all the kids outside toys.

 

[JimB.]

Does the word "Hiroshima" bring a picture to mind??

 

[cvemom]

Originally posted by sjh801
Mine is full. But not with a car. I mistakenly thought when i bought my house that since I had one car I needed one garage. W-R-O-N-G!!! My car has never seen the inside. My friends with one car have two car garages. Wish I had known that before. Live and learn!

If you didn't show up on this thread I would have voted you in first place

 

[froglady]

I also do not have now, nor have ever had, a car in my one car garage. Right now, there is a sidehorse (as in gymnastics) a windsurfer, plywood to cover our windows in a hurricane, two wrought iron bedframes, and assorted boxes of Christmas lights, etc. Along with ladders, oars, garden tools, and a toilet. I just told my husband that everything is going in November, or I am!

Well, not everything, but at least the sidehorse and windsurfer, as they haven't been touched in 10 and 5 years, respectively, and they fill the middle.

 

[Alice28]

No garage here, basement. (no garages in our neighborhood for the most part as all the houses were built circa 1900....now there are guidelines that say no garages unless built in the back of the house)

Our basement is actually pretty tidy. It's unfinished, but has shelves around the perimeter and a workbench and it's pretty nice right now. Can walk without tripping over anything and lots of room for new stuff.