I miss my old garage!

[Jerry Bransford]

We moved 3 weeks ago and the 3-car garage is still so jammed with boxes and junk that I have no hope of getting the Jeep inside to do any work on it until probably this summer. The house is full too so I can't just unpack them and put the stuff away. We moved my elderly parents in with us (though my 95 year-old step dad died 12/20, 2 days before the move-in) so I have two households worth of junk and furniture to deal with!

Brake lines, valve springs, adjustable rear swaybar and bracket, all kinds of stuff to install and work needed on the Jeep and no place to do it... I can kinda see the air compressor in the middle of the garage surrounded by crap and sealed unmarked cardboard boxes. Nope I'm not begging for the use of a garage, I'm just venting!

[Tim]

start tunneling and shore up a temporary wall to make room for the jeep. at least until the garage sale. were talking holy jeep ground here, the cuisinart can camp outside

seriously, hope things come together for you quickly

[Jeff Weston]

Jerry,

Sorry to hear about the loss of your stepdad. As for working on the Jeep, who needs a garage? That's what driveways are for! I'm sure your wife won't mind a few grease spots.

[Scott Hill]

you can always take a long drive and work on it here you dont even need to find your tools.



Scott

[Daless2]

Hi Jerry,

I feel for you.

Try this......
One box at a time, no more then 5 boxes a day (or something like that.)
(This creates a pace, a goal and a rule you can live with!)

Before you know it you'll have that nice three car garage all freed up!

Good luck!

Frank

[Jerry Bransford]

Originally posted by Daless2
Try this......
One box at a time, no more then 5 boxes a day (or something like that.)
(This creates a pace, a goal and a rule you can live with!)

Before you know it you'll have that nice three car garage all freed up!

Good suggestions Daless but the house is already filled with two household's worth of furniture and there's no good places left to put all the stuff in the garage (and the house isn't exactly small at 3800 sq.ft.) and neither my wife nor mother want to be the one to get rid of anything they had before moving. Dang women!

And thanks for the offer Scott, I might just come up there to get out of the house all day and watch YOU wrench on your TJ heheh!

Thanks all, I needed to vent when I posted this thread and I did feel better afterwards lol!

[Scott Hill]

Well soon I will need some help putting my axle back in.



Scott

[Jerry Bransford]

Let me know when Scott, you were good enough to help me on my SYE installation! By the way, a bunch of us are doing Calico this coming weekend... Peggy Sue's Saturday at 9am starts it off.

[Joe Dillard]

Jerry,

Have you thought about getting/using/erecting a couple of those metal sheds in your backyard. This might just be the solution to your garage/storage problems. If you rent a storage space, you'll keep on paying over & over. Reserecting a shed usually takes only a few hours & a couple $100. I'b be more than happy to assist if you decide to go this route.

As far as working on your Jeep, you're always welcome to stop by.

[Jerry Bransford]

Originally posted by Joe Dillard
Jerry,

Have you thought about getting/using/erecting a couple of those metal sheds in your backyard. This might just be the solution to your garage/storage problems. If you rent a storage space, you'll keep on paying over & over. Reserecting a shed usually takes only a few hours & a couple $100. I'b be more than happy to assist if you decide to go this route.

As far as working on your Jeep, you're always welcome to stop by.

Thanks for those kind offers Joe, they are much appreciated. I'm slowly wearing my mother and wife down over their inability to throw away or give anything away. Of those items they are just not going to cave in over, I have discovered I have a HUGE attic and the previous owners of the house installed tons of storage shelves up there and even installed some lighting, it's awesome! So as of today, much of the stuff in the garage is slowly getting taken up into the 3rd story attic (phew, lots of work ). What a novel thing in Southern California, an attic that is atually useful for storing stuff in. So the storage idea is good, thanks for that suggestion Joe, but I think the issue suddenly took a turn for the good. I still have a ton of stuff to move up to the attic, but there's finally a light at the end of the tunnel.