So many toddler toys and sporting goods on the curb in front of our house! Got my now college age kid to help.
We put up a huge “free” sign, and at least some things found a new home. Three bicycles, two portable soccer nets, and a pair of roller blades definitely gone but there’s just so much stuff that I really couldn’t say what’s no longer there
I’m disappointed the snow blower didn’t go. Yeah it’s older and needs service but it’s a nice two stage, self-propelled, auto-start model where bringing it back to life would be a fraction of the cost of buying something like that
Good work. I’m looking to shift some things from my spare room (which is chock full of random stuff) to my garage, do you have any tips on storage? Just thick cardboard boxes? Plastic crates? TIA
My rule of thumb is anything you are not willing to clean with a garden hose should be stored in a sealed plastic container. Not plastic bags, but plastic containers with lids you can close and seal.
I came up with this rule after I discovered a rat had been getting into my garage to eat some old birdseed I’d forgotten about. It didn’t nest in there, thankfully. But the amount of poop I had to clean in 100°+ Texas heat was insane. And my garage is not a clustered mess like a lot of people. I can actually fit both cars in it. But it still took me 3 days to hand wipe down every single item in there.
Only a few things not to do. Over enough time, bugs, critters and dampness win every time, plastic bags degrade, organization falls apart. Don’t store anything that could be damaged by dampness in a garage, and do use something sturdier than plastic bags.
I’ve seen people whose cardboard boxes were used as nesting material but not in mine
But realistically if I were good at storage and organization I wouldn’t have so much stuff that just needed to go
Good points, thanks. If anything encouraging me to try to just deal with stuff instead of shoving it away out of sight!
This is usually the best way! Even properly stored, some stuff will simply degrade over time. Anything rubber or elastic comes to mind. It’s best for it to go somewhere where it will be used before its useful life ends.
Take it from someone that had to clean out large amounts of parents’ stuff.