A ghastly garage

Tonight I told myself I'd go home and get my garden cleaned up. I have compost etc in my boxes that has been infiltrated by grass, so a nice night to dig them out, mix in some seed and put some on our horrific lawn. I got changed, went to the garage and was completely and totally overwhelmed. Something had to be done. I'll save the garden for later, it was time for my 10 things!

I'm almost ashamed to post the pics.


While, at first glance, this may not look terrible....what lurks beneath is scary. And don't judge on our flag on the ladder-it got soaked and ripped off the house in the flood storms! So it was drying out.

An area of much anxiety is these shelves. There is so much STUFF on there, I took one pass and removed about a million rusty old nails, random plasic bits and other things. The layers of dust etc on here I could not tackle, our garage needs a full day of work.


HEH?

I guess frogs do catch flies, even ceramic citronella ones..but aren't they supposed to eat them? This guy is surrounded by a bug graveyard to make your skin crawl. EWW.

So this sad little pile is the beginning of the garage. In here you'll find such items as:

• a used shop vac bag full of grime and dirt that spit it out at me when I moved it. Not great for the allergies
• 3 neon green plastic things that look like frisbees but are decidedly not.
• Various plastics such as Driveway salt, 4 water bottles, 2 nalgene bottles (not a fan of the BPA so out they go)
  
• A variety of things that we recycled...now in the trash never to be used. Period.
• a few computer print outs of directions, zumba classes and others.
• A sad lonely gardening glove.
  

Well, it's not perfect. But it's a start!!!!

.....and even the kitchen sink!

Yes, we even got rid of the kitchen sink! We bought this sink for our condo.....in 2005 (and never used it). We have been lugging it around for 5 years. I've listed it on Craigslist twice with no buyers. Alas, I decided it was finally time to part with it. I left it curbside and some grateful new owner snatched it up with great joy.

Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty, we're free at last!

Garage: Phase 1

This is actually Phase 2. We did a MAJOR purge last year. At any rate, here is a visual tour of the give-aways:

Painting damaged in our flood in the garage.

New breast milk storage organizer. Kind of an unusual find for our neighbors pilfering through our things left curbside, don't you think?

Electric caulking gun. I found the ol' manual type worked better.

Jones Lemon Drop soda (which is standing on a tool organizer). It's been in our garage since October 2008.

Printer.

Solar garden lights that look like rocks and a rug.

3 sets of cheapo cabinets, a basket, and several picture frames. A carpet steam cleaner is in the background (it smells like burning rubber when you use it...but someone handy can fix it easily, I'm sure).

And like Canni, I am coming clean with all that we pulled from the garage. In this part of VA, no one has basements. So, everyone uses them for storage. In fact, I rarely see anyone actually park in their garage.

We also left out an MUSTY antique trunk, everything you'd need to install can lights, curtain rings, and lots and lots of other crap.

Tomorrow we're going in for Phase 2. I *may* even have the guts to give away the bounce house and ball pit. Gasp!

Garage

I've missed the last two days. But take heart: today we are tackling the garage. I'm sure I will more than make up for my 20 missed items.

I'm running out to work and then coming home to set forth on this mission. I'll report back with the carnage.