Garage Organization- The adventure begins
For reasons that defy understanding, we've started a project to clean out and organize the garage. It is a perfectly wonderful project to take on, until you consider that it is December. In Wisconsin. The temperature tonight at 8:00 PM is 10 degrees above zero, and we will not see the north side of freezing until March.
But we were faced with a problem. With Christmas coming, and a new drive to finally organize and clean our house, we want to expand the storage possibilities for the kids' bedroom closets. We have the wood to devise some great storage shelves, but not the open space to work on them. Cutting sheets of plywood in the garage is preferable to cutting them outside, and since it's dark by 4:45 PM, it's essential to do this work where we can have lighting. So, that means the garage.
But, where on earth to start? This poor garage has been through everything. To consider putting car in there would be a joke. It's been a workshop, garbage collector, remodeling staging area, and everything in between. We've noticed that once it's a mess, it's nothing to just toss the latest garbage bag into the garage and forget about it. Eventually, it makes it into the garbage bins. So, we had to start with the trash.
The problem then is the fixed amount of trash you can fit into a bin. The city switched over to these bins that the automated collectors can deal with. I hate them. The idea is sound enough, but how do you ever purge a large amount of stuff when you routinely fill the bins with the trash of life with three kids? Projects generate junk, and the junk can only go away a little at a time, unless we get the in-laws to help with a trailer run to the dump.
With that said, the garage is coming along for a first night of work. We will post pictures soon, but suffice to say being able to see the floor is a good first step!
