The Dreadful Garage

Lately I have been absolutely disgusted by our garage. It has (like many garages) become a place to throw all of the junk that we do not know what to do with. My first thought was, "where did all of this stuff come from?" We have not even lived in this house for a year and the garage is so full of stuff. Before we lived in this house we lived in a townhouse that did not have a garage, or any storage for that matter. So, somehow in the last 10 months we have accumulated enough stuff to fill the garage. Ugh.

Today I decided it was time to start going through all of this junk and organizing it. First I had to start getting rid of all of the cardboard we have accumulated. The problem is that we have made some big purchases in the past 10 months and they have all come in cardboard boxes, but the boxes are too big to fit into our recycle bin so we have just been letting them pile up. Bad idea. We will be making a trip to the dump to get rid of all of them in the next few days.

Once the cardboard boxes were out of the way I was ready to get started going through everything else. First I went through the stuff that I knew was mine. Most of it was stuff from high school and college that had been in the same plastic bin since then and I just kept toting it around for some reason. After looking through it, I realized that most of it was just stuff that I didn't need. Most of it went to the garage sale/goodwill pile.

All of my hubby's stuff that I came across I put in a pile for him to go through when he gets home from work. I have no idea what most of it is, so I don't want to through something away that looks like junk to me but is actually his most prized possession from high school. :)

My favorite part of the day was when I came across a box that his mom had dropped off a few months ago. It is his keepsake box and has tons of stuff from when he was a little kid. I spent probably 20-30 minutes looking through his baby book. Precious.

For now, I am done with the garage. Although it is not finished I am very satisfied with how it looks now, opposed to how it looked at 11:00AM this morning. My next step is to go through all of the Christmas boxes and organize them. Luckily, we have not accumulated too many Christmas decorations yet.  Once the garage is completely done I will post some pics.