Gargage Organization Project Begins
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you'll know that my better half has been working on cleaning up and organizing the kids clothes and generally, everything inside the house. I've been meaning to do something with our garage for some time now and thus it's been brought into the project. The idea is to make one stall a workshop/tool area and have the other stall as a functional place to park our minivan. On the surface, it sounds simple enough.
However, we have a couple of challenges. First off, it's now December 28th and the daytime temperature is about 20 degrees. The next time we'll see the north side of freezing is March. After all, it is Wisconsin. So, it's a cold, unforgiving environment. However, it is something you can prepare for. One thing that I've learned after living out here for five years is that gloves and a good hat can do wonders for your outdoor experience. I'm still looking for a way to keep my ears warm, but with a good set of thinsulate gloves and a hat, you can function in winter.
So with that out of the way, the other problem is that the garage is an absolute disaster area. There are at least two reasons for this that I can think of. First, we generate a lot of trash. We have three little ones in the house and with a household of five comes a lot of messes to clean up. For the longest time, we didn't have the bins provided by the city for automated garbage pickup, so we end up with a pile of garbage and recycling boxes to deal with. Frankly, we never really had a good system for that, and thus we had a lot of just junk out there.
Secondly, we underwent a major, major, remodeling project that we've detailed in this blog over the last 2 years. The garage became the staging area for everything. At one point, we had boxes and boxes of kitchen cabinets filling up one stall. Later, we had flooring components, furniture, you name it. It was also the workshop, especially as the weather turned. So, we have the miter saw, table saw, etc.. out ans scattered about. Finally, the hand tools were all over the place and we just grabbed what we needed and were not good about putting tools back. Add to that a baby born in the middle of the project and we have the seeds for a hellish garage.
So, we'll see how things work out.
