Getting Started

Today is the day to clean out the garage and start getting some of the chaos organized.  The eventual goals of today's tasks include:

• A large garage sale at the end of the summer
• Bringing up the workbench from the basement and putting it in the garage
• Putting the file cabinet from the garage into the basement
• Repairing and painting the garage walls (and floor!)
• Hanging shelves on the garage wall to organize seldom needed items like empty canning jars, unused rolls of paper towels, etc. 
• Installing sturdy storage shelving in the basement storeroom
• Having the basement store room organized and functional
• Being able to park my car in the garage this winter

It's a case of needing to do one thing, before another can be done.  In this case, there is an enormous stack of EMPTY boxes ~ the nice banker type boxes, that for what-ever reason, I couldn't seem to get rid of.  They take up nearly one quarter of the garage.  Then there is also a good stack of other brown corrugated packing boxes that I've emptied that need dealt with too.  That's where we'll start today. 

My youngest son is coming to help me.  I need the moral support.  That has to do with the enormous (2 1/2" diameter!) spider I found lurking in the garage last week.  I think that spraying the garage for spiders is another task to be completed today! 

Before... 

and After...
Looks a bit better, though there is still lots to do.  that pile on the right is for garage sale. Should see even more progress tomorrow as we get some shelves up on the wall and organize some of the junk in the back.