Planning To Organize The Garage: a house log

We are a bit embarassed about what we are about to share with you folks. So we will preface it by reminding you that we are only human. Like you, we tend to be fairly busy and occasionally some projects sink to the bottom of our to-do list as life gets in the way. As is the case with our garage, which suffers from a bad case of Out Of Sight Out Of Mind Sydrome. After all, it is detached from the house so we do not truly have to see it every day.

Now we are admittedly a bit hesitant to unveil our dirty secret, but we figured that the best way to keep this task from perpetually being scheduled for “next weekend” would be to open the door to the world and in short shame ourselves into getting ‘er done. So, without further ado (or stalling) here is the current sad state of our two-car garage:

Yuck, we know. It is bad. And I likely do not need to say this, but we literally did not move a thing before snapping these pictures. We hoped you to see it in its full box-filled, yard-equipment-strewn and distinctly no-room-for-parking-one-car-let-alone-two glory. In fact we have not done significant maintenance on it since its first major clean-up last summer. The shame.

But we are not simply sharing these “befores” to force ourselves to get to work making “afters.” We also want to invite you folks to join us this weekend in giving some TLC to a neglected space in your home. Perhaps your garage resembles ours? Or perhaps it is your shed, attic, basement, closet, or even a junk drawer that is feeling a bit chaotic? Whatever it is, let us tackle it together this weekend… and next week we will regroup to share our afters (you can post ’em on our Facebook page or send them to john [at] Turbodizin [dot] com). So do not forget to snap those before pictures up front and those after pics once the glad dance commences on the back end. Sound like a plan? We cannot wait to see your afters. Heck, we cannot wait to see ours either. Stay tuned…