We are Terrible Garage Parents

Our garage has seen some tough times. At least once a month, in the midst of some big project or after another huge Home Depot or Lowes shopping trip, I think “this is definitely the messiest our garage has ever been” and I snap a picture so that when we finally clean it up, we’ll have a great before and after comparison. But due to the fact that garage clean up keeps getting put on the back burner, what I have is more like like a “before and before and before and before” instead of a “before and after.”

In our defense, we did inherit a decent amount of random garage-y stuff with the house (cans of paint, gardening tools, piles of bricks, etc). But still. There’s really no excuse for this sort of neglect. We’re terrible garage-parents.

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The photo above was right after our mega shopping spree at Lowes.

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At this point it was far from its worst. We actually had space to park one car! We did manage to make the garage a little better by building a big worktable Evan bought.

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Have I mentioned Mochi likes to insert herself into the middle of all our home endeavors? Especially those involving instructions manuals placed on the floor.

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You might also notice in the picture above that our washer and dryer are hanging out in the garage. Seems like it was just yesterday *tear.*

The status of the garage got much worse when the attic project hit. What a disaster zone! Even though we returned the blower and hoses, those trash piles hung out in there for at least a week.

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Then we had a bunch of boxes piled up from the attic clean-out and our recent Ikea trip, and our garage looked like a box convention with the best turnout in the history of box conventions.

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But after one evening of shuffling things around, we at least managed to get everything contained to the perimeter of the area.

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And it was the first time since moving in that we could actually fit both of our cars in at the same time!!

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This is for sure not the most exciting before and afters picture-wise, but with temperatures reaching 100 down here in H-town being able to park in our garage makes us both do a happy dance.

2 Comments

  1. Katelyn

    Thanks! Haha that’s true! Don’t know how we survived with only a tiny apartment balcony to do our “outdoor work” in.

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