Unfortunately... we underestimated the size of the job. We thought we could have that garage purged in a weekend. It is a two car garage with just barely enough room for one car. The sides of the garage are packed nearly to the ceiling with much of my Dad's stuff plus 17 years of living in our current house. There are tools, antiques, bags of cement and sand, roof tiles, camp chairs, barn boards, gardening items, extension cords, car repair, grass seed, weed killer, and a very long list of more than you could possible imagine.
We decided to start with an 8 foot by 3 foot corner. We would get that corner cleaned up, and then build some shelves that would aid us with going through the rest of the garage. It took seven hours to purge just that corner!
I regrettably don't have a picture of what it looked like before we got started, but it was piled nine feet high. Two old picnic tables were stacked ontop of each other and served as shelves for all kinds of useless treasures.
We puled everything out and into the driveway where we made several piles: Trash it, sell it, give it away, and store it.
We filled five trash cans with garbage. In addition, we put a pickup load out at the street for anyone to take for free (which went immediately). The items to store (... store for now... as we continue to purge) went into buckets and tubs.
When we were finished, we cleaned the entire area and brought the storage items back in. We'll build the shelves next weekend and then keep working on the rest of the garage.
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